livebriand

February 13, 2012 at 5:14pm

Given the clock speeds and specs here, there APUs look like they could be seriously competitive. If they can do a good job here, I might forgive them for Bulldozer. Watch out Intel!

thetechchild

February 13, 2012 at 4:38pm

It'll be nice to see how the A10-3800K performs compared to the i7-2700K. Still, with Ivy Bridge around the corner (April?), AMD will have to move quickly.

iceman08

February 13, 2012 at 1:56pm

I'm rather curious as to how the a10-3800k performs with games such as BF3 or Arkham City without a discrete graphics card

ashinms

February 13, 2012 at 1:35pm

I really wish the software would catch up with these procs. There's a lot of possibilities for these things, and I really hope AMD keeps pushing the whole heterogenious processing thing for that reason. I wonder how long until they start to do the whole "third party IP" thing? It would be cool to see something like this, but with a PPC core to boost serial tasks alongside the SIMD array.

tekknyne

February 13, 2012 at 12:41pm

7660D @ 800 MHz? Sounds sexy. Credit to AMD for paving the way for APU's. Hopefully it pays off for them. Think it can hang with my 2500K and GTX 460? Not exactly the baddest machine on the planet I know, so it shouldn't be too hard. :)

Honestly, in a few years, the only people I see using desktops in general are enthusiasts and business-class peeps. And since enthusiasts aren't exactly lining up to embrace embedded graphics, AMD really needs a good show here.

I appreciate the budget-conscious approach, but can they really compete with laptops, ultra-books, tablets and smart phones when their market just wants to play Farmville and they aren't equipped to care?