By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), April 25, 2012 7:42 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
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That was the longest link I've seen in a while.
>with the option of an A8-3550MX APU and hopefully DDR3-1600 memory. It would have
>been a more fair GPU comparison, although the i7 is still a >lot more expensive.
>
>AMD or an OEM should have supplied a better platform to Anandtech, but on the other
>hand by the time the more mainstream Ivy Bridge chips launch >Llano will have been replaced by Trinity.
That's right. IVB definitely closes the gap with Trinity (compared to SNB vs. Llano), but will have much lower GPU performance.
>Back to the original point, it's a reasonable conclusion that the i7-3720qm is
>a better overall chip than the a8-3520m, but I don't think its logical to use that
>to claim that Ivy Bridge is the highest performing IGP.
It depends on the market and TDP constraints. For desktop, I'd totally agree with you, but for notebook it's probably ambiguous and for 17W, I'd expect IVB to be better.
David
That was the longest link I've seen in a while.
>with the option of an A8-3550MX APU and hopefully DDR3-1600 memory. It would have
>been a more fair GPU comparison, although the i7 is still a >lot more expensive.
>
>AMD or an OEM should have supplied a better platform to Anandtech, but on the other
>hand by the time the more mainstream Ivy Bridge chips launch >Llano will have been replaced by Trinity.
That's right. IVB definitely closes the gap with Trinity (compared to SNB vs. Llano), but will have much lower GPU performance.
>Back to the original point, it's a reasonable conclusion that the i7-3720qm is
>a better overall chip than the a8-3520m, but I don't think its logical to use that
>to claim that Ivy Bridge is the highest performing IGP.
It depends on the market and TDP constraints. For desktop, I'd totally agree with you, but for notebook it's probably ambiguous and for 17W, I'd expect IVB to be better.
David
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