| Alby_da_Wolf said: Also both MS and Sony must have asked AMD in their deals to keep their APUs the hottest ones in their segment at least for the launch and Xmas window. |
Nah.
It all comes down to costs, power and die sizes.
Basically, the Xbox One and Playstation 4 have the worst x86 CPU's money can buy, they're tiny and cheap, all the extra transister and power budget is then spent on the GPU.
On the PC however, AMD has a different design philosphy for APU's, basically the CPU and GPU are essentially given more equal treatment in terms of transister counts.
Power wise, PC APU's need to fit into a TDP that ranges from 5-100W, the consoles are probably anywhere from 50-100% higher than 100w TDP if not more. (Remains to be seen.)
You would probably need a couple more die-shrinks and AMD/Board partners to include GDDR5 (A-La Side-Port Memory.) for it to ever be on a level playing field with the consoles APU graphics, DDR4 won't change things for awhile yet.
Basically you *could* buy an APU system, then drop in a discreet Cheap/Mid-range secondary card and enable Hybrid-Crossfire, the second GPU will only initiate when there is a need.
Or you could say "to hell with it" and go AM3 or the faster Intel 1150/2011 Platforms, paired up with a Radeon 7850-7870 for cheap.
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