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Sirius87 on 08 June 2012
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superchunk said:
Scoobes said:

No APUs are priced at $600+. Even the best APU chips are designed for mainstream and the lower end of the performance sector. The design is also just an update of the existing Bulldozer architecture rather than a complete overhaul.

The article also states 3.2GHz which is very conservative for a current AMD chip. The soon to be released top of the line APU (A10 5800K) is clocked at 3.8GHz. If anything, it almost seems too conservative as they're going for a low clock speed quad core which is only capable of 1 thread per core when the rumours of the WiiU and NeXtBox suggest Power7 CPUs capable of 4 threads per core.


So a brand new chip would not be close or well over $600? Everytime I see a new CPU or GPU they are at or above that. Why would a APU be different?


Only the highest end CPUs may cost $600. Even i7 CPUs don't cost that much.

AMD's APUs clearly are in the entry section of PC-CPUs. And in most cases the successor of a CPU costs same as its predecessor costed before the launch of the new one.

edit: oh and another thing: it's rumored that the HD 7xxx-GPU has 1.8TFlops which isn't in line with the rumour of a HD 79xx. But it  matches the power of a HD 7850 or HD 7870. A HD 79xx would be totally over the top for a console.