Other than performance, AMD needs to fix their naming system and their marketing.
People always look for an 'i5 or i7'. they only know about i3, i5, i7 and Atom.
People can't figure out the naming scheme for the AMD APUs. I myself get confused at times when the A4 and A6 Beemas overlap with the Kaveri processors.
Wish they would keep the damn Beema on a different A level as they are not the same as the Kaveri. There is also no indication if there are 2 or 4 modules enabled on the chip.
The GPUs have a more sensible naming system now with the R series so we can leave that aside but I have no idea how the graphical portion of the APU works.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just give all the APU's graphical capabilities the R3 moniker as it is not used for their discrete solutions. Like an R3 205, R3 210 or R3 215 and move their R5 discrete series up. Makes it so much easier to compare it to their discrete solutions. Better than the R6 and R7 they use both on their discrete and APU graphics.
Anyway, I don't think Carrizo is going to be a hit. It'll work okay but it isn't even able to touch Haswell on a performance to power ratio. Only Zen can save them. I'd get one if it is able to decode 4K videos and output to HDMI 2.0 but I doubt it'll do so.
