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Notebooks with the new AMD FX-7500 or FX-7600P processor?

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October 5, 2014 1:24:59 PM

Ever since the new AMD A10s launched I've been looking for a notebook powered by one of the new Kaveri FX chips. I can't find anything for sale in the US. Do any of you all see such a beast?

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October 6, 2014 8:27:53 PM

There are currently no laptops with the FX-7500 or 7600P for sale in the US. Several models are slated for release later in the year from several different manufacturers but as of yet I don't see any firm release dates from anybody.
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October 7, 2014 4:27:12 AM

So far with the fx7600p Processor we have.

MSI GX60 and GX70 models, I've seen them listed on Thai and German websites.

There's also the ASUS X550ZE

So far none of these are for sale in .us afaict and none of them has faster the 1600Mhz memory, which is crying shame as that is what really gives the 7600p an edge over the other Kaveri apus.

Ideally you also want a discrete r7 graphics card in it too. Pushes framerates from ~40fps to ~60

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October 10, 2014 10:28:16 PM

Decided to track thread, thought I would pop in and share my opinion.

In my opinion, I cannot see ANY reason to put a Kaveri APU in the same notebook as a mid-high-end GPU. It cannot run in dual graphics with it, and there are much better purely-CPU processors out there for the price. If MSI is going to further bottleneck the APU by using slow RAM, I can see no compelling reason to choose that laptop over one with an I5/I7 in it.

Main selling points I would be looking for in a laptop with the fx-7600p:
- fast RAM: at least 1866 speed, preferably faster. At least 4GB+ in volume, obviously.
- No discrete GPU (assuming a correspondingly low price... I mean, I'm not going to refuse a discrete GPU if it comes cheap) - dual graphics is great and all, but it doesn't offer as compelling a price/performance or power efficiency story as just the APU alone.
- 5400 RPM 1TB+ HDD OR a 128GB+ SSD. Preferably both, but as I'm unfamiliar with the realistic pricing of laptops, I'm not too sure that it's reasonable.
- 720p or 1080p screen, personally it doesn't matter much to me (a lower-resolution screen just means a higher framerate to me, and in most recent games the switch from 1080p to 720p brings frame rate from playable to smooth at low settings) - what DOES matter is that it isn't overly reflective, has good picture quality and has a good viewing angle
- standard laptop goodies. A keyboard (duh), a nice high-capacity battery, bluetooth, a radio for wireless internet connectivity, a (hopefully high-ish detail) webcam, USB 3.0, etc.
- sub-$700 price (HP's $1000+ business laptops with lower-end APUs are scaring me).

Do those features seem reasonable for that price? It's around what I have available for the laptop purchase I'm looking to make, and I'm hoping I can get an fx-7600p-based laptop with those features for around that amount.
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October 13, 2014 2:06:10 AM

I have no idea about the pricing of laptops.

For me a 720p screen isn't enough I want 1080p (no more, no less, no touch).

Likewise for me a dGPU isn't essential, but if it has one it wants to be an R7, so it can crossfire with the onboard. The MSI models so far have an R9 dGPU, my understanding is that this will be used instead of the onboard graphics, and if so then why bother with an apu.

Just to be clear there is a slide somewhere of AMD saying that with an R7 dGPU the FX-7600p's jumps from ~40 to ~60 fps in some game (BF4 maybe). There's also an srticle out there where someone tests a kaveri apu with 1600 1866 and 2133 Mhz memory and 1866 is a must, 2133 is the cream, but may not give a performance increase in line with the price increase.
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October 13, 2014 7:53:52 PM

You can checkout the following link from AMD from time to time. It list many laptops with AMD APUs. I am not sure it is a complete list, but there are 618 results at this time.

http://shop.amd.com/en-us/computers/notebook

At the moment there are no Kaveri generation APU listed in the filters. I would guess that maybe you will see a few Kaveri generation laptops for sale in December.
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