Intel let me down last year...not because they didn't have phenomenal products for my partner's niche, but because only the larger OEMs were able to purchase the good chips and we struggled with availability.
The 5775C for example incorporated the Iris Pro 6200 chip which was pretty darn great and for what we did this chip was the answer to a lot of industry problems:
(thanks to hardwarecanucks for the image)
As we wait patiently for the 6700-S...which now looks to be replaced in the distribution by the 6700-T...I need some alternative that I can get on a regular basis. Is there anything I should be looking at?
In the meantime and as a separate project I want to do a CPU-only based S4 build, and if I can't find a suitable alternative to Iris 6200 graphics I'm going with the A10-7870K. My thoughts are that the i7 6700K CRUSHES the A10 in CPU-based benchmarks, and most of the time it is pretty even with the 7870k in 3D benchmarks.
Obviously if that was the end of the story I would choose the i7, except that in several games (that I actually play) the 7870k actually jumps leaps and bounds over the HD530. I've also found that performance increases for the APUs via AMD driver updates whereas you get very little improved performance with the Intel...and although Intel's graphics are generally very stable, they do have issues in some of the GPU based work applications my OEMs run. I'm babbling on, but I think with AMD's new driverset and some of the features of Crimson, the A10 flagship might actually be doable...
I've done APUs twice before, and they just never made sense from any perspective...they had better graphics processing than Intel's offering, but their weakness in CPU compute made them a net loss for my needs. I think they might be back on the table as I can buy pretty much a whole A10 based system for the price it would cost me to buy a 5775C from Japan!
What are y'alls thoughts? I'm itchin' do an S4 build video ASAP!
The 5775C for example incorporated the Iris Pro 6200 chip which was pretty darn great and for what we did this chip was the answer to a lot of industry problems:
(thanks to hardwarecanucks for the image)
As we wait patiently for the 6700-S...which now looks to be replaced in the distribution by the 6700-T...I need some alternative that I can get on a regular basis. Is there anything I should be looking at?
In the meantime and as a separate project I want to do a CPU-only based S4 build, and if I can't find a suitable alternative to Iris 6200 graphics I'm going with the A10-7870K. My thoughts are that the i7 6700K CRUSHES the A10 in CPU-based benchmarks, and most of the time it is pretty even with the 7870k in 3D benchmarks.
Obviously if that was the end of the story I would choose the i7, except that in several games (that I actually play) the 7870k actually jumps leaps and bounds over the HD530. I've also found that performance increases for the APUs via AMD driver updates whereas you get very little improved performance with the Intel...and although Intel's graphics are generally very stable, they do have issues in some of the GPU based work applications my OEMs run. I'm babbling on, but I think with AMD's new driverset and some of the features of Crimson, the A10 flagship might actually be doable...
I've done APUs twice before, and they just never made sense from any perspective...they had better graphics processing than Intel's offering, but their weakness in CPU compute made them a net loss for my needs. I think they might be back on the table as I can buy pretty much a whole A10 based system for the price it would cost me to buy a 5775C from Japan!
What are y'alls thoughts? I'm itchin' do an S4 build video ASAP!