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x86 "Zen" CPUs, a new AM4 socket, HBM-enabled GPUs and more.
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If this works out as they say it will then this will be awesome. good to see a standard across all platfroms AM4 :)
Hoorah up she rises!
Product availability in 2016... I notice they dont say which quarter... which means it wont be till 2017 at the earliest that we get our hands on them I'll bet.
I am so looking forward to seeing some independent reviews, commentaries and benchmarks now.
Looking forward to seeing actual product, and not vaporware.Quote:
Originally Posted by KeyboardDemon
Roll on the resurgance of AMD - been waiting for this for quite some time now.
I remember the heady days of Athlon when they equaled Intel, the awesome days of Athlon64 when they managed to (gasp) Beat Intel!...
By which time Intel had dumped the P4 arch and gone onto a improvement of the ol' P3 arch (which was an edit of the P2 arch that have been modified from the Pentium Pro) and on came Core Number Numeral chips and AMD fell behind.
Sounds like "Don't bring our company down, we'll have something good soon ... honest."
Good to hear. Always supported them but its been hard to justify recently (Although I did get a £300 A8 laptop last year for the crossfire setup it has).
Looks good and hope it lives up to the promise.
I will say currently APUs are great for general use/HTPC setups and currently have 3 in the house (C50, A8-3870k and A8-7600).
But the higher end performance was been lacking so my work horse is currently a 3570k, if I was building today an 8 core AMD might get in there but my 3570k is still going strong.
It does seem Zen may fall in line with my next upgrade cycle, so maybe my house will become all AMD for the first time.
I really do hope they make a comeback and finally give some serious competition for Intel. The only thing that worries me about this is that they were also saying how good that Bulldozer was going to be and we all know what a flop that turned into. If I was looking to build a new pc from scratch right now I really don't know what I would do. Intels prices are ridiculous and while AMD's cpu's are cheaper, they are more power hungry and don't have the same performance.
Hell yes. This is the news we've been waiting for, for what seems like forever! Benchmarks will really paint the picture, so I'll wait patiently for those now. But if all is good, I think I'll be picking up an Amd cpu next upgrade :D
Btw, those slides/pics look so damn appealing to me :P
Also, did it say they're continuing development on Mantle? I've been reading that they're dumping it and urging devs to use DX12 instead...
Unified socket is good, no need to choose between desktop and APU chips......
Other than that, I can't really get excited YET. We are talking about a long way off. Lets hope they can at the very least get Intel out of their current release patterns....
Intel just started offering up the 16core Xeons... it would not surprise me in the least if they announce a higher core (6, or more likely 8) consumer product for the mass market, with a 16core chip for the enthusiast built on the Skylake platform (not the questionable one that appeared here last week).Quote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
And 2016 is not just a long time... it's a complete turn of the cycle for Moore's law... far too long to remain 'inactive' with some major competition from the high and low end out there.