OEMs appear to kill AMD’s Carrizo
 

AMD’s hopes that its Carrizo might boost performance are being stuffed up by its OEM partners crippling the chip and over-pricing products made with it.

Anandtech has just done a detailed review a five-way comparison between four Carrizo systems.

Anandtech looked at Carrizo against Kaveri and then showed it to Intel’s Core M. The good news in this match-up is that Carrizo often delivers the improved performance and reduced power consumption AMD promised over Kaveri. Sometimes the gains are considerable particularly if you look at the Cinebench 15’s single-and-multi-threaded performance graphs.

Even when it is going uphill with one leg tied to the other the slowest Carrizo APU is 11% faster than Kaveri in single-threaded mode and 15 per cent faster in multi-threaded mode.

But they all appear to be crippled by single-channel memory configurations. HP Carrizo systems can all be upgraded to dual channel operation, but the Toshiba and the supposedly high-end Lenovo rigs are both stuck in single-channel mode.

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