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more info about the cpu : "We are not using Polaris or Zen. SMACH Z will use AMD Merlin Falcon and AMD Prairie Falcon families. Since they have been already announced by AMD, this time we will be able to share benchmark and more details in the next Kickstarter campaign"

I know nothing about these APU'S so in your opinion which one is a good fit and what kind of performance can we expect?
Do you guys think it would perform better than the X7 8750?

more news from their facebook :
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Hi Smachers,

Thanks for the good vibes and feedback after our return announcement. Many of you have sent us questions about the project and we’d like to update you on the most important information:

- We’ll offer Windows 10 support as a low stretch goal in the next campaign.
- During the Kickstarter campaign we will show benchmarks of the final SOC. We will use the AMD Falcon SOC family.
- We’re also considering adding phone capabilities to the PRO version, but it’d be a very high stretch goal since it’s not easy nor the main focus of the device.
- Ditto for Android support; it’s an extra that we will consider as a high stretch goal, but it’s not a priority.
- The price and the rest of the specs will remain the same as the previous campaign.
- We’re working to expedite production to deliver it to backers earlier than expected (February-March 2017), but we can’t confirm it yet.
- The prototype will be black, as you can see in the image below. It won’t be white like the previous WIP photo.
- The prototype is not the same as the final console, just a first demo version; It’s bigger (with a 6” screen), it's not the final device form (we are going to refine it for the best possible experience), and it doesn’t have the final SoC (so it’s less powerful). Nevertheless, it gives a good idea of what the SMACH Z will be.

We hope this clarifies your main concerns. Please feel free to send new questions and proposals to our Facebook or Kickstarter page.

Thank you!
SMACH Team

20.000maH battery?

i just asked them the battery capacity, if they answer i will post it!

Quote from: golgolt on July 30, 2016, 06:57:10 pm

Quote from: Faust on July 30, 2016, 06:40:12 pm

20.000maH battery?

i just asked them the battery capacity, if they answer i will post it!

It was a bad joke, sorry

i knew but for the SOC i hoped they'll put a really good battery between 6000 and 10000 maH will be great!

PS: sorry for my poor english

Unless we learn exactly what APU they use its hard to tell but I doubt it will be the R7.
So far it looks a good, it should outperform the z8700 in the GPD Win, I think.

The Falcon SoC is not a Kabini derivative. It has 2 AMD Excavator cores (derived from Bulldozer), DDR4, and 128-256 GPU cores. More details at http://www.anandtech.com/show/10083/amd-expands-g-series-embedded-socs-with-excavator-microarchitecture They probably will use the 128 shader part with single channel memory, to fit it into a handheld.

Could be an interesting part- better single thread performance than Atom, though worse multithread performance. Kind of like an x86 version of the Tegra K1.

Quote from: NTMBK on July 31, 2016, 08:34:16 am

The Falcon SoC is not a Kabini derivative. It has 2 AMD Excavator cores (derived from Bulldozer), DDR4, and 128-256 GPU cores. More details at http://www.anandtech.com/show/10083/amd-expands-g-series-embedded-socs-with-excavator-microarchitecture They probably will use the 128 shader part with single channel memory, to fit it into a handheld.

Could be an interesting part- better single thread performance than Atom, though worse multithread performance. Kind of like an x86 version of the Tegra K1.

It says Steppe eagle and Jaguar cores on their Kickstarter page. How great would kaby lake core M (or the 4,5W i5 and i7) be in this device!

That was the old prototype. Remember how during the original campaign they alluded to a "future AMD SoC" they weren't allowed to talk about? This is it.

A Kabylake/Skylake chip could be cool- I would like to see a part with a single Skylake core, to give more headroom for the GPU. I suspect costs would be too high though.