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disolitude on 13 January 2013
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Pemalite said:

 

disolitude said:


Those Trinity game benchmarks would have been even better had AnandTech OCd the RAM to 1866 or 2133. There have been many sites pointing out that since APU uses RAM for GPU memory, overclocking it to 1866 gives the GPU up to 10% better performance compared to 1600.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2106/6/


That is true. However, DDR3 1600mhz memory is the sweet spot in terms of price/performance, it doesn't make sense for someone to spend-up big on the fastest DDR3 Ram in a cheap Trinity notebook.

It actually gets me excited about the move to DDR4 soon and what kind of tangible increases it may bring on the IGP front. :)

Ive looked around and it seems ddr 1866 and 1600 hover around the same price. 2133 however is much more expensive. For a trinity laptop I wouldn't bother but for a gaming oriented trinity desktop I'd surely get the 1866 memory and mess with timings and voltage until I can get it as high as possible. Timings really dont matter as much RAM speed for gaming.

Im really hoping that AMD is able to offer Richland APU with a crossfire capability, much like trinity and liliano. However hopefully they can crossfire them with GPUs newer than 6670.

The way I see it...

Richland APU (20-30% better game performance than Trinity) + something like 8670 = AMD being able to offer a platform for a sub 500 dollar mainstream gaming PC. And that would be pretty awesome.