Submission + - AMD Kaveri Notebook APU Preview Shows Solid All Around Performance (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: AMD has had a tough time competing with Intel on the desktop lately, but when it comes to the notebook arena, performance, value and power efficiency are measured against a very different yardstick. Multimedia performance in these highly integrated designs can matter much more than desktop designs where discrete graphics engines are easily accommodated. Back in January of this year, AMD launched their Kaveri desktop APU. Targeted for desktops and with integrated AMD GCN graphics on board, Kaveri also had a number of optimizations and enhancements made to its Steamroller CPU cores as well. All told, Kaveri represents a much-needed upgrade to AMD's base APU lineup. Today, AMD is launching their Kaveri mobile variant and early testing shows it's relatively competitive versus mainstream Intel notebook chips, even the latest Haswell cores. With four AMD Steamroller CPU cores and up to 8 GCN-based GPU cores on board, AMD's Kaveri mobile APUs offer up competitive CPU performance and graphics performance that surpasses Intel's integrated graphics by a wide margin, with the exception of perhaps their rare, high-end Iris Pro variant.
