Incredible deal available on eBay - Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Gaming Model 5576
7th Generation AMD FX™ 9830P Quad-Core APU with Radeon™ R7 Graphics
8GB, DDR4, 2400MHz
256GB Solid State Drive + 1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
Radeon RX560 with 4GB GDDR5
15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080)
English Backlit Keyboard-Red Print
802.11ac + Bluetooth 4.1, Dual Band 2.4&5 GHz, 1x1
74 WHr, 6-Cell Battery (Integrated)
""incredible deal""
yes, a "quad core" AMD APU (really a dualcore, 4 integer but 2 floating point units, thanks AMD) combined with mediocre at best graphics and 8GB of RAM for a bit under 1000 smackeroos.
Meanwhile on the Intel side of the fence - this which beats it in both CPU and GPU benchmarks for $350-ish more. When you're dropping $900+ on something, $300 isn't a huge deal extra especially considering the extra performance gain (especially on the CPU side) you get.
AMD bet on multi core performance being the next "race" of CPU's. CMT cores are really good for multi CPU processing, but contend with each other for single core performance (basically the exact opposite of SMT CPU's we currently have). Guess they lost the bet there, but got some good learning for Ryzen under their belts.
I totally don't agree with people discounting them as cores as they only share a (dual 128bit) floating point unit between two of them, which is not unusual to share resources between cores. Each module still has two standard x86 cores and everything else that is considered a "core". CMT just makes it confusing, but its no different than most processor designs that share elements.
I use to buy Dell exclusively back when you were able to customize systems. I have moved on long ago but these latest systems aren't even contenders. They just look like plastic rubbish. I've bought Acer on the last couple so you can't say I'm picky.
The Bristol ridge APU is only about as fast as a Core i3-7100U in single thread perf. So, performance isn't great and might actually hold back the RX560 in some situations.
Strange to see that Bristol Ridge is still being sold in modern notebooks as it was one of many's AMD embarrassment of CPU's.