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    What's the state of Enduro + Sandy Bridge (P150EM + 7970M)?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by landsome, May 19, 2013.

  1. landsome

    landsome Notebook Evangelist

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    As far as I know even after AMD started to sort out its Enduro issues, most of the fixes were for Ivy Bridge CPU's specifically and Sandy was left in the dark. Any idea if Sandy is now equally covered when it comes to Enduro support? (Asking because I am contemplating exchanging the Ivy i5 for a Sandy quad...)
     
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    I never heard of any difference in performance with Sandy vs Ivy. There were some with DX 11 vs DX 9 games when the first 13.0 drivers came out but since then they seem to be on par now.
     
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    +1, never heard of any perf. differences between sandy and ivy. both igpus should be supported by the current intel and amd drivers, so there shouldnt be any issues (other than the known enduro stuff)

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    It's not a question of performance - more of compatibility. I know for sure that 13.1, at least in their initial incarnation, did nor work on Sandy, and problems surfaced even with later versions. Apparently the compatibility testing for Intel drivers was done on Ivy rather than on Sandy as well.

    AnandTech | AMD

    People with HP Envy 15 (Sandy) notebooks and Enduro-enabled AMD graphics reported lots of problems with this.
     
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    happy to report it works perfectly well with Catalyst 13.4
     
    landsome, May 22, 2013
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