Quote from: Mehdi on August 21, 2015, 12:06:07
Y series are high performance laptops from Lenovo and they decided to use this weak apu! It is not even close to i7-47XXHQ which regularly used in these models. The performance of this apu is similar to Intels core i5 series such as i5-4200M (more than 2 years old now).
Sorry to rain on your parade but this laptop does deserve to be in this product stack, the reason is that this is a gaming notebook (that igpu is pretty decent for an igpu and it has the colour compression found in other gcn 1.2 parts so the igpu will easily surpass anything but a mobile version of the iris pro enabled intel parts and the lower tier 900m gpu's from nvidia (the 940/950m will be hard for an igpu that has to share most of its power with the cpu to beat), also of note is that this is a very rare thing, an APU is put in a decent machine, usually amd apu's are shoved in shitty plastic tat with a 720p display and 1 stick of 1300mhz ddr3. all of these things hold the apu's back by quite a bit (they are sensitive to memory bandwidth). This is also the 1st arch that is fully HSA enabled and some software already shows immense improvements to the point where they can compete the higher end intel parts just being partially HSA enabled. without it it is actually on par with the 5th gen 5200u (obviously because the 5200u is just the 4200m with a die shrink and better igpu) on cpu and better than the regular broadwell based iris igpu's (dunno about iris pro though).