AMD FX processors to launch on October 12

[nicky]

This quarter AMD is going to launch server-class "Interlagos" and consumer-class "Zambezi" processors, based on new Bulldozer micro-architecture. In the past two weeks three "Zambezi" FX-Series CPUs surfaced for pre-order at a few online US stores, suggesting imminent release of these models. Yesterday Donanimhaber reported that AMD FX-Series family will launch on October 12. There were also rumors that the family will be introduced in the middle of October, presumably on October 13. Coincidentally, AMD FX giveaway 2 ends on October 12, therefore it does look that something may happen on October 12 or 13. According to Donanimhaber, prices of the first three FX-Series chips will be from $175 for FX-6100 and up to $245 for FX-8150. The price of FX-8120 model will be $205. It's not clear from the translation whether these are going to be approximate retail prices, or official prices for OEM processors in 1K quantities. Our previous estimates were $155 - $170 for FX-6100, $185 - $200 for FX-8120, and $230 - $245 for FX-8150, i.e. they were slightly lower than the prices revealed by Donanimhaber. Judging by the prices, FX-Series CPUs will be positioned against Intel Core i5 and i7 offerings. Specifically, eight-core AMD FX-8150 fits between Core i5-2500K and Core i7-2600K. AMD FX-8120, also with 8 cores, will compete against Core i5-2500K, and six-core AMD FX-6100 is positioned against Core i5-2310. We can expect that multi-threading performance of AMD FX CPUs will either match, or exceed performance of similarly priced Intel Core i5s and Core i7s. At the same time, per-thread or per-core performance of AMD processors is expected to be noticeably lower than performance on Intel counterparts.

Source http://www.cpu-world...October_12.html

 

[AdrianD2]

Going to be very interesting to see how it goes up against the 2500k, new build is going to be very frustrating waiting on all this...

 

[FragTek]

Love the comic. Coincidence that the bad guys are blue? Hahaha.

 

[nicky]

Yes i know what you mean? I’ve been looking at doing a new system for a few months now and when i have had the money something has come up and had to use the money for something else also the line of work I’m in isn’t easy these days due to economy plus people are not going away these days as its so expensive to do ? i have my own business in the tourism industry by the way here in Asia.. i was also looking at doing a new ivy bridge system but that’s beyond my budget these days so it looks like i will be using an AMD FX-Series FX-8150 with an ASUS Crosshair V i've already got my ram sorted out thats going to be 16gb of g.skill jigsaw .. and cpu fan will be a Thermalright Silver Arrow ..

 

[UFN]

Ah finally! A release date. I'm hoping that this means that review samples will either be on their way out soon or already with reviewers (damn NDA's!). Reviews of these processors will greatly influence my next build.