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Gigabyte Brix with Intel Iris Pro Graphics: powerful gaming PC fits in your hand
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Intel-based gaming computers just became a reality.
Gigabyte Brix with Intel Iris Pro Graphics: powerful gaming PC fits in your hand
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reedOsama
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The barebones one is still in development and you're as likely to break it as you are your laptop/tablet.
I don't get it... it doesn't seem all that expensive (not saying I can afford it but I can't afford a lotta things) if you put it somewhere between the price of a next-gen console and a gaming laptop
The Joker
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It's gonna be no where near as powerful as next gen consoles when it comes to gaming performance.
In actual game performance terms a GT650M is a piss poor gpu. Although having a on board gpu that can perform like that is amazing its still way over priced for what it does. It might be good for 720p gaming but at 1080p with any sort of decent settings it'll melt.
In the states you can get yourself the following for the same price and it'll out perform this thing by miles.
AMD A10 6800K + MSI FM2 Board
Crucial M4 128GB SSD
Crucial Ballistix 8GB DDRIII 1866
Thermaltake V3 Black AMD Edition
Thermaltake TR2 500w psu
For less than this bare bone thing from Gigabyte.
http://cart.microcenter.com/cart.aspx?RedirectUrl=http://www.microcenter.com
http://www.microcenter.com/product/...e_(SSD)_with_Marvell_Controller_-_Refurbished
http://www.microcenter.com/product/...R3-1866_(PC3-14900)_CL9_Desktop_Memory_Module
http://www.microcenter.com/product/365237/TR2_Series_500_Watt_ATX_Power_Supply
http://www.microcenter.com/product/..._Tower_ATX_Gaming_Computer_Case_-_Refurbished
So yeah it is way over priced.
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Fox1
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As you shrink hardware, the cheaper it becomes I suppose. And AMD APU system will be more viable. I'm still curious to see if the eDRAM boost GPU performance or it falls flat.
reedOsama
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I'm not sure you've been keeping up with laptop graphics cards but their performance have improved a lot, hence brands like Alienware being able to charge an arm and a leg.
Here's a review of the GT650M , they put its performance between a GTX 460M and GTX 560M
The lower of the two, the 460M's performance was compared to the performance of a 5850
So the 460M beats the regular (not mobility) 5850 on average, and because the 650M is between the 460M and 560M I'm just going to assume it performs like a 5850/6850 (there aren't a lot of 5850 comparisons to new cards hence my using the 6850). You have to admit that the 5850 was a pretty good card in it's heyday and definitely not a piss poor card now.
From what I've read:
Now whilst the 7850 has twice the performance of the 5850/6850, the 7770 performs around the same as the 5850/6850 and the Xbox One is also more expensive than the bare-bone system.
Guru3D review of the 7850: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/powercolor_radeon_7850_scs3_review,17.html
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This is just some random forum post but what this guy says is that next gen console GPUs are twice as efficient as PC GPUs meaning the PS4 is actually on par with a 7970. He may be talking crap, he may not be. I have no idea.
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/you-need-a-3-68-teraflop-gpu-to-match-ps4-s-gpu-1444954/
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My point: that thing can definitely function as a PC or HTPC. It has the mobility of a laptop/tablet, maybe a bit bigger, but definitely more portable than a console and it's graphics put it at the lower end of next-gen but right up there if you count the Wii-U.
The price seems kind of worth it "whistling:
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The Joker
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I build custom gaming and monster pc's for a living so I am well aware of what the card is capable of.Oh and the guy claiming the ps4 graphics will be on par with a 7970 is talking through his ass
The ps4 gpu will be on par with a 7850, maybe slightly faster.
My point was for the price you could build something much better.
(gotta [barely] keep up with the Joneses)Pretty much this. Iris Pro is a massive step forward for Intel in terms of basic gaming capability, but an overclocked A10-6800K would probably give it a run for its money. Take Anandtech's findings, for example:
Goddamn, these IGP's are potent little buggers.
The eDRAM is a hardware-managed cache and scratchpad, so any applications that are L4 cache-aware will take advantage of it from the start. Many applications are actually redirected, thanks to Intel's driver software, to use the eDRAM instead of paging to the hard drive. 128MB of the stuff is incredibly potent, but at the moment it's not being used all that much.
This is very likely going to be AMD's next step for the Kaveri successor, but only if they can find a way to cheaply integrate it. My guess is that the Xbox One orders will help that cause a bit.
reedOsama
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I didn't take into account that a laptop's resolution is only 1366x768 "whistling:
I've converted... that performance is bad
