Came across some Fusion benchmarks, looks good http://nl.hardware.info/reviews/1961/4/amd-fusion-apu-review-benchmarks
What does everyone think about Fusion?
What does everyone think about Fusion?
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So your saying the future is little netbooks? Most of them aren't much bigger than a graphing calculator. I don't think I would ever game on one or enjoy a movie on one.
Pass.
I would really like it for a homeserver/nas and basic computer tasks. big things for me though are going to be linux support and cost. If i can buy a 200$ netbook with one of these, I would definitely buy them for my nieces and nephews to use for school
You won't find a netbook under $500 new this year especially with an AMD APU.too little too late and way too much$.
You won't find a netbook under $500 new this year especially with an AMD APU.too little too late and way too much$.
the ULV sandy bridge series seems better than both fusion and atom, imho
It really depends how much the customer desires faster 3D performance. When scaled down to 8W, the 1GHz Ontario C-50 is slightly slower than the N550 in CPU performance, which is its competition.this is proof that even if AMD doesn't deliver with BD, we can still expect them to be the most competitve in mobile solutions.
I was thinking ~200 for specifically netbooks. I have looked at the atom systems but I know my nephews and nieces. While they wont play top end games or do things as demanding as a hardcore user, the anemic graphics is just not up to the task. I am really looking forward to seeing amd netbooks.
For a nas/home server setup I am hoping we have better motherboard options then atom. While I think their performance is fine for this task, the lackluster motherboard offerings leave much to be desired. I am hoping the amd options are not as limited. I want low wattage and lots of sata ports.
It really depends how much the customer desires faster 3D performance. When scaled down to 8W, the 1GHz Ontario C-50 is slightly slower than the N550 in CPU performance, which is its competition.
I would recommend the C-50 over the N550, but tbh a lot of people just don't care about IGP performance. The same situation happened when Intel still had unreasonably slow, nearly featureless mobile IGPs and AMD had merely slow, but feature rich IGP options. It just didn't matter to the vast majority of buyers.
IMO the biggest benefit the C-50 has isn't the GPU performance, but lack of dumb restrictions Intel puts on mobile Atom chip sales. Want a 14", or even a 15.6" 1366x768 C-50 notebook? AMD doesn't care. I expect Intel to lift some of those restrictions now that there is competition. (I know MS also has restrictions on the dirt cheap copies of XP, discontinued, and Windows 7 Starter. Intel has additional restrictions.)
The N550 plays back Flash video smoothly, at least what people would play on the LCD such as 720p Flash video. To most buyers who use the LCD, there is no difference in Flash video performance between the N550 and C-50. Both will play those 720p clips smoothly. I think there's a tendency to think of Atom as worse than it is, or possibly even worthless for common tasks. It's not.its not that a lot of people dont care about IGP support, a lot of it is people dont realize how much flash relies on IGP performance.
It really depends how much the customer desires faster 3D performance. When scaled down to 8W, the 1GHz Ontario C-50 is slightly slower than the N550 in CPU performance, which is its competition.
I would recommend the C-50 over the N550, but tbh a lot of people just don't care about IGP performance. The same situation happened when Intel still had unreasonably slow, nearly featureless mobile IGPs and AMD had merely slow, but feature rich IGP options. It just didn't matter to the vast majority of buyers.
IMO the biggest benefit the C-50 has isn't the GPU performance, but lack of dumb restrictions Intel puts on mobile Atom chip sales. Want a 14", or even a 15.6" 1366x768 C-50 notebook? AMD doesn't care. I expect Intel to lift some of those restrictions now that there is competition. (I know MS also has restrictions on the dirt cheap copies of XP, discontinued, and Windows 7 Starter. Intel has additional restrictions.)
Have you seen the prices on those chips? They can't even touch the netbook market as the chips alone cost as much as a netbook.
Came across some Fusion benchmarks, looks good http://nl.hardware.info/reviews/1961/4/amd-fusion-apu-review-benchmarks
What does everyone think about Fusion?
The N550 plays back Flash video smoothly, at least what people would play on the LCD such as 720p Flash video. To most buyers who use the LCD, there is no difference in Flash video performance between the N550 and C-50. Both will play those 720p clips smoothly. I think there's a tendency to think of Atom as worse than it is, or possibly even worthless for common tasks. It's not.
It's one of those abstract things when you say Ontario can play back 1080p. That's something interesting, but in practice few people will care. If it's an important feature to the buyer, of course the choice is clear. It won't really shift sales much based on that. Not everyone is a geek.
Nope. The GMA 3150 doesn't support x264/H.264 decoding so it's done on the CPU. CPU utilization was 35%-45% in 2 different reviews while playing back a few different 720p flash videos. The N550 is dual core with HT. CPU utilization is much lower with the Broadcom Crystal HD chip.Was the n550 using a Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator, because all the atoms I have toyed around with are horrid in flash.