AMD announce Two new CPUs

[WYP]

AMD have announced that two new CPUs will be released, NOT APUs! One is an 8-core on the AM3+ Socket and the other is a Steamroller based Athlon-K on FM2+. Lets have a look.

Read more about AMD's new CPUs here!

 

[barnsley]

Sorry but the 8300 has been around since the 8350 , just only really available for OEMs.
Nice to seek the 750k has a successor, I'm guessing they're gunning for the Pentium K.

 

[Tripp]

Woooo my find gets put on the site

 

[MadShadow]

And someone literally said yesterday that the AM3 socket is dead

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

more like with one foot in the grave

 

[WYP]

Sorry but the 8300 has been around since the 8350 , just only really available for OEMs.
Nice to seek the 750k has a successor, I'm guessing they're gunning for the Pentium K.

Its a similar story to the 5GHz monster. AMD released it first to system builders and later to enthusiasts. The FX-8300 isn't really anything special TBH.

The Athlon-K though has me interested. If the price was right I'd be tempted to buy one to tinker with.

Woooo my find gets put on the site

It was a good find mate! Found a better source article though, I don't trust wccftech. I remember their 25nm 12-core phenom, and even more recently 12-CPU core APU nonsense.

 

[Wraith]

And someone literally said yesterday that the AM3 socket is dead

Nah not dead yet just old. I'm a little bemused by this, as Barnsley said the 8300 has been around for a while now, what's with AMD just lately re-releasing processors *Cough* 9590.

 

[barnsley]

And someone literally said yesterday that the AM3 socket is dead

I stand by my remark. Re-releasing cpus that have been out for ages don't count .

More FX 8300 info (from CPU upgrade)

 

[Wraith]

I stand by my remark. Re-releasing cpus that have been out for ages don't count .

So very true! But I guess this is what happens when Intel unfairly shoulder you out the market.. excess stock.

 

[MadShadow]

I stand by my remark. Re-releasing cpus that have been out for ages don't count .

More FX 8300 info (from CPU upgrade)

Good point, re-releases are stupid in my opinion.

 

[RadeonHDx]

Good point, re-releases are stupid in my opinion.

I agree, but without them AMD, and for that matter Intel and Nvidia, probably wouldn't have near as much money to research etc meaning slower actual architecture upgrades in the mean time.

 

[Agost]

Why did they remove 2MB of L2 from the 860K? .-.

 

[Dicehunter]

They need to stop with the AM3+ socket, It's ancient, Move on.

 

[stampedeadam]

Pointless.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Funny thing about the 990FX chipset is that is had full support for SATA3 but AMD decided not to give it support for PCIe 3.0 which is, weird actually

 

[TaZ87]

great another disserpointment

 

[Tripp]

Funny thing about the 990FX chipset is that is had full support for SATA3 but AMD decided not to give it support for PCIe 3.0 which is, weird actually

The performance difference between pci-e 2 and 3 with gpu's is negligible at best

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

The performance difference between pci-e 2 and 3 with gpu's is negligible at best

I've done a bit of research. there's no performance difference between those two unless you are playing some open world game like wow which loads things from ram to the gpu and not from the hdd.
Still you only get faster load times on the pcie 3.0

 

[RizeAllard]

If my informations are correct there will be 4 more new CPU will come.
2 for FM2+ an 2 for AM3+.
FM2+:

Athlon X4 840 with 2MB L2 Cache and 3.4GHz
Athlon X2 450 with 1MB L2 Cache. At the moment i have no infos about the frequency.

AM3+:
FX-8370 will be the replacement of 8350: 8 core 4×2MB L2 and 8MB L3 cache frequency still not known.

FX-8310 will come but it just a speculation about the specs: I think it will be also an 8 core cpu with the same cache as above.

We will see it soon..

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Now AMD needs to upgrade their 990FX chipset for the "Vishera Refresh"