llano cpu question

Rene can answer this better since he's actually used.

But AMD can handle any video you want to put through it. I believe it even does 29/59 Cinema speed video. You can also play 3D games with it, including recent games if you turn down the detail a bit.

When it comes to CPU power its advantage Intel all the way. So it depends on what your doing. If you're going to do any encoding with your HTPC, get an Intel, unless you don't mind having a bit more time used up to do the same job.

Why would you turn-off hardware acceleration? The APU handles it all... Now if AMD can get its act together on the CPU side, only hardcore gamers will even need to buy video cards...

In Passmark the A6-3500 is right between the Athlon II X3 440 and Phenom II X3 715. The A8-3800 is right between the Athlon II X4 630 and AMD Phenom II X4 910. They don't have an entry for the 3600, unfortunately, but I would *think* it'd be just above the 3500.

My old Phenom II x3 705e / HD 3200 system can handle 1080p video just fine so I am sure this would. The 705e scores just barely above a A4-3300.

Even A6-3500 (= A6-3600 with one core disabled), well even any decent dual-core processor, can decode 1080p pretty easily without GPU acceleration. The average CPU usage at the playback of this 1080p AVC clip (ripped directly from BD with MakeMKV) with LAV Source/Splitter+ffdshow (libavcodec)+EVR:

- A6-3500 TC 2.1GHz: 35%
- A4-3400 DC 2.7GHz: 45%

Edited by renethx - 2/11/13 at 10:27am

Thx for that info, renethx. I'm getting impatient waiting for the SL5/Netflix fix and thinking of upgrading to a lower end Llano. I know most favor the i3's, but this rig sees some light gaming duty.