AMD - Piledriver chitchat

[Gilderien]

Some new CPU releases:

<insert link that forum won't allow me to leave in due to being new here>

Any news on when they might become available?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Any news on when they might become available?

It might be a few weeks?? Its hard to say. The FX6350 is basically a FX6300 I suspect with a voltage bump to run at a higher clockspeed,and has a higher TDP as a result.

The VIA Nano Quad looked fairly interesting, but aside from the press releases there doesn't seem to be an awful lot of information about them. IIRC Nano performed significantly better than Atom, and had an encryption engine, but wasn't as power efficient. It's a shame they're not more widely available though.

I wonder how a Jaguar quad core SOC would do against my E3300 and Zotac motherboard with a Nvidia 9300 IGP??

[Homeking]

The FX6350 is basically a FX6300 I suspect with a voltage bump to run at a higher clockspeed,and has a highe TDP as a result.

Looks like you're right there CAT:

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldo...20FX-6350.html

Apparently been in the HP h8-1400z PC since last October:

http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2012/2...-1400z_PC.html

Available for pre-order in the US:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-F...S-335695.shtml

but no release date I can see. Might not be long though!

[DanceswithUnix]

Imagine a mini-ITX motherboard with the quad core Jaguar SOC??

Only if it is very cheap for me, though could be excellent for HTPC. Otherwise FM2 is already hard to beat.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...amd64-mistakes

[DanceswithUnix]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...amd64-mistakes

Really not sure what to think of that. I think he is so wide of the mark I almost feel sorry for him. The past is mis-represented, he doesn't seem to understand what is happening now, so I won't put much faith in his vision of the future

[Noxvayl]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...amd64-mistakes

Didn't read past the third paragraph, seemed like he didn't know what he was saying when he asserted that Sony picked AMD's design out of good will. After that I felt that the possibility he had written something worth reading was very slim.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/com...m_a_marketing/

:l

[DanceswithUnix]

FX-4350 to have 8MB of L3 cache.

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/30...-for-pre-order

Edit to add: Just realised this a a recycling of the news Cat posted from CPU World a few days ago, but I missed the cache bit at the time.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

BAHAHAHAHA:

http://techreport.com/news/24501/nvi...-playstation-4

[watercooled]

"We didn't want your business anyway!!"

Edit: "It's clearly not a technology thing" - clear to who? Just Nvidia marketing? As the article says, Nvidia hardly have the capability to churn out x86+GPU SoCs for example.

[DanceswithUnix]

BAHAHAHAHA:

http://techreport.com/news/24501/nvi...-playstation-4

Does sound one step from "My dad's bigger than your dad"

Desktop Richland in June?

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/30...-for-june-2013

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

They should be aiming for releasing them before Haswell TBH,or do they want Haswell to be compared to Trinity??

Another,potential AMD marketing fail??

[DanceswithUnix]

That's an interesting call isn't it.

Benchmarks tend to happen on desktop setups, then most punters these days go out and buy a laptop.

So it shouldn't matter that Richland is laptop only for a while, but it probably will.

[DanceswithUnix]

A though occurred to me:

Performance is now based on temperature with Richland rather than load. But given the timing, what is the chance PS4 will have the same tech? Someone in a cold room will have better frame rates than in a hot room. After market PS4 coolers could start to become quite common ramming air down it's vents, and some brave souls will probably water cool the things.

[HalloweenJack]

nvidia dont have an x86 license so how could they have made a SOC based on X86 anyway lol and intel arnt even in the same building for this.