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    Where are the notebooks with AMD M300 series?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by asusk53taowner, Nov 2, 2015.

  1. asusk53taowner

    asusk53taowner Notebook Enthusiast

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    Its been almost 4 months since the new gfx cards came out but i still dont find see any notebooks that have these gfx cards,well aside one hp noteobok that has the m360.The market is full of notebooks with m200 series though.Did AMD give up this year?
     
  2. Mr.Koala

    Mr.Koala Notebook Virtuoso

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    They are just rebrands anyway.
     
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    Game7a1 ?

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    Some Lenovos, Dells, a Toshiba, an Alienware, an Apple, and some HPs should have an m300 GPUs, but theer rebrands of the m200 series, as Mr. Koala said.
     
  4. octiceps

    octiceps Nimrod

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    Yes.

    And last year.

    And the year before that.
     
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    AMD gave up the mobile space circa 2013.
     
  6. Mr.Koala

    Mr.Koala Notebook Virtuoso

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    What is funny is AMD's new nano can replace the laptop version of 980 easily (at least in the non-MXM form factor) and is somewhat faster. And yet there's no movement whatsoever that we can see.
     
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    I know pretty stupid of them not to make use of it... :(
     
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    Deks Notebook Prophet

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    This.
    Definitely this.
    We can see laptop manufacturers almost bending over Nvidia and their idea of putting a desktop 980 into a laptop, but suggest the Fury Nano to be placed into a laptop, and people start naming how 'impossible' it is (which it really isn't - besides, AMD can be the first on the market with a mobile HBM gpu which could prepare them for HBM2 gpu's next year).
     
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  9. triturbo

    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    My thoughts exactly! Who is going to put this chip in one of their machines, when they are tied-up with nGreedia. OEMs, accept this as a challenge and feel free to prove me wrong. Now it's more than obvious that AMD lost the MSi GX line as well.
     
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    Good riddance. That line was an abject failure as far as I'm concerned, and if anything left a sour taste in people's mouths for flagship AMD mobile GPUs. If a TOTL Trinity/Richland APU was limiting the 7970M/8970M to 50% of its performance in the less CPU-intensive games of yesteryear, and with Enduro driver issues on top of that, imagine how badly a TOTL Kaveri/Carrizo chip (which isn't even that much faster to begin with) would bottleneck a Fiji GPU? Never mind AMD's subpar DX11 driver; even DX12/Vulkan couldn't save it then.
     
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  11. triturbo

    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    No matter whatever you said, there were buyers, and the price was right. Did you know that there was an upcoming version with R9-M295X? Did you know that there was another upcoming version with grIntel CPU and R9-M295X based on the GT72? The later one would've definitely made it's way to the upper performance tier. This lines, or rather, the lack of them, coincide with the Apple deal they made. So yeah, never mind what you think.
     
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    You're right, it really doesn't matter what I think, because AMD's execution is terrible as usual. Products that look good on paper never leave the drawing board and make it to market. Just look at all the hoopla they made about Kaveri last year, and almost zero Kaveri APU-based notebooks were actually released.
     
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    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    We are returning back to the OEMs. It takes someone to actually make a laptop. The above mentioned GX with R9-M295X was supposed to has FX-7600P. Two AMD parts that never saw the light of the day in a PC (the later at all). On paper 7600 wasn't that bad, it was actually quite good, but it would remain just that - paper spec. Poor management could have a lot to do, but also bribing and deals. I stand behind my words - the Apple deal was a package one, and they lost the MSi's laptop market (MSi still does desktop parts) for whatever reason. Don't know where exactly the blame is, but this is the end result. From our (PC buyers) perspective, it wasn't a good decision. BUT if you know how Apple sources parts (quite literary by ships), it leaves little to imagination that an Apple deal would be better in the long run, than a constantly shrinking PC market and even more so for AMD (we have all seen the percentages, don't we). Especially with constant dirty tricks from the competitors. Then comes the rumor that the next Macs would sport AMD APUs. So, to return to the topic with a little generalization - Where are the AMD parts? - In Macs and consoles... and a couple of DELLs (don't know how this one happened, good for them anyway, as well as for me - W7170m MXM).
     
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