{"id":77472,"date":"2015-06-18T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T10:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=77472"},"modified":"2015-06-18T12:49:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T10:49:50","slug":"amds-quantum-pc-is-powered-by-intel-go-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/77472-amds-quantum-pc-is-powered-by-intel-go-figure","title":{"rendered":"AMD’s Quantum PC is powered by Intel: go figure"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMD\u2019s ultra-small Quantum PC<\/a> promises a chic, contemporary aesthetic, unbelievable performance, a lightweight design and little to no noise to speak of.<\/p>\n

Without published benchmarks, because we\u2019ll never get our own hands on one, we\u2019ll just have to take AMD\u2019s word for it.<\/p>\n

If they say that it can muster between 60 and 90 fps at 4K (3840*2160) resolution, then we\u2019re going to give them the benefit of the doubt. After all, it\u2019s powered by not one, but two Radeon Fury<\/a> graphics cards \u2013 we\u2019re guessing a pair of R9 Fury X\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\"AMD<\/a>

The inner shell of the AMD Quantum’s cooling.<\/p><\/div>\n

That\u2019s certainly something to gawp at, but when we originally heard that it was powered by an AMD CPU, we weren\u2019t so sure.<\/p>\n

Granted, AMD\u2019s CPUs aren\u2019t completely without merit. And their forthcoming x86 Zen CPUs certainly promise high performance, but there\u2019s no way the CPUs will be ready for the Quantum anytime soon, and any previous AMD CPU just isn\u2019t going to cut the mustard.<\/p>\n

So are you at all surprise that AMD\u2019s Quantum PCs are powered by their arch-rival\u2019s CPU? Yup, the Quantum sports an Intel Core i7-4790K \u201cDevil\u2019s Canyon\u201d processor, currently the highest performing desktop CPU Intel make \u2013 and to top it off, the PC will use Asrock\u2019s Z97E-ITX\/ac mainboard.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that another particularly powerful ultra-small performance PC, the Northwest Falcon Tiki, is using AsRock\u2019s X99E-ITX\/AC<\/a> \u2013 primarily because it\u2019s using an Xeon CPU, but AsRock certainly seem to be on fire these days.<\/p>\n

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The AMD Quantum opens to reveal an Intel Core i7-4790K and AsRock Z97E-ITX\/ac mainboard.<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019re happy that AMD has chosen to swallow their pride and use the optimal CPU for the situation. Nerfing the Quantum\u2019s performance wouldn\u2019t have been worth it.<\/p>\n

Besides, with an Intel Core i7-4790K at the helm, the Quantum is going to fly much, much higher. Though AMD\u2019s partners charged with manufacturing the Quantum may well opt for Intel\u2019s Core i7-6700K \u201cSkylake\u201d CPU<\/a> should the timing be right, suggests KitGuru<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 6700K\u2019s 4 cores\/8 threads, a 4.0GHz\/4.20GHz base\/turbo frequency, 8MB of cache and an impressive TDP of 95W is nothing if not promising.<\/p>\n

More hardware to drool by<\/h3>\n

AMD\u2019s R9 Fury cards are here: enter the R9 Fury X2<\/a><\/p>\n

NVIDIA\u2019s GTX 980 Ti is the 4K GPU for you<\/a><\/p>\n

LG\u2019s new super-thin OLED wallpaper panel is exactly that, thin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMD’s pride must be at least a little wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":77462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1051,14422,14456,1085,1727,14454,14452,1969,14450,14198,14424],"class_list":["post-77472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-amd-quantum","tag-asrock-z97e-itxac","tag-hardware-2","tag-intel","tag-intel-core-i7-4790k-devils-canyon","tag-intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake","tag-news-2","tag-r9-fury-x","tag-radeon-fury","tag-ultra-small"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}