2011-03-30, 22:40
I've built a lot of overpowered, overpriced PCs in my day. I'm starting to see the error of my ways on my light bill...
Can the Zacate platform really deliver on the high bitrate 1080p content? Like Blu-Ray rips? My concern is this article from Tom's Hardware wherein he mentions something about CUDA performance looks like crap, which is one of the main selling points of this platform?
At the 'Conclusion' of the article he says something makes me think I should wait for Llano: "Had AMD been given a choice, I don’t think it would have decided to use Zacate and Ontario as the springboards for heralding the arrival of Fusion. As fate would have it, though, we’ll have to wait for the Sabine platform’s 32 nm Llano APU (expected in Q2’11) for a better look inside AMD’s plans for the future."
So what do you guys think? For good 1080p playback - Is Zacate delivering? When does the CUDA thing become an issue? Encoding only?
Can the Zacate platform really deliver on the high bitrate 1080p content? Like Blu-Ray rips? My concern is this article from Tom's Hardware wherein he mentions something about CUDA performance looks like crap, which is one of the main selling points of this platform?
At the 'Conclusion' of the article he says something makes me think I should wait for Llano: "Had AMD been given a choice, I don’t think it would have decided to use Zacate and Ontario as the springboards for heralding the arrival of Fusion. As fate would have it, though, we’ll have to wait for the Sabine platform’s 32 nm Llano APU (expected in Q2’11) for a better look inside AMD’s plans for the future."
So what do you guys think? For good 1080p playback - Is Zacate delivering? When does the CUDA thing become an issue? Encoding only?