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AMD Launches Enthusiast A10-7860K APU, New Mainstream CPUs and Wraith Cooler (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: AMD apparently wasn't done making announcements back at CES 2016. Today the company has shared news of new APUs, processors, fansink coolers, and motherboard updates. The company has been working with motherboard makers to enable a new wave of socket AM3+ and FM2+ motherboards with support for technologies like USB 3.1 (some with type-C and M.2 solid state drives (SSDs). Many of the updated motherboards are already available. AMD also has a trio of new APUs / processors coming down the pipe --the A10-7860K, the A6-7470K, and the Athlon X4 845. The Athlon X4 845 is a quad-core part, featuring four Excavator-class cores clocked at up to 3.8GHz. The processor has 2MB of L2 cache, 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes, and a TDP of 65W, but no built-in graphics. The A6-7470K is a dual Steamroller-core APU (clocked at up to 4GHz), with 8 GPU cores (at up to 800MHz), 1MB of L2 cache, 16 PCIe lanes, and a 65W TDP. The A10-7860K is a little beefier with four Steamroller cores (clocked up to 4GHz), with 8 GPU cores (clocked up to 757MHz), 1MB of L2 cache, 16 PCIe lanes, and a 65W TDP. Both the 7860K and 7470K are unlocked for more flexible overclocking. Finally, the FX-8370 bundled with AMD's new Wraith cooler will be arriving today at the same price point as the previous edition. According to AMD, the Wraith cooler offers 24% more surface area than the previous PIB cooler and the fan pushes 34% more air.
I thought A4 = 4 cores, A8 = 8 cores. I guess they're getting rid of that in favor of bigger numbers because marketing reasons?
Athlon X4 845 why cut pci-e lanes? amd is losing and this is a bad idea.
AMD didn't technically "cut" PCIe lanes since the underlying chip never had the PCIe lanes to begin with. That Athlon is a rebranded version of "Carrizo" that technically launched last year as a soldered-on mobile only part. It's available in a relatively small selection of notebooks but hasn't taken the market by storm.
Anyway, the Athlon part is just Carrizo put into a socket instead of being soldered to a board. Since Carrizo was only a mobile part designed for low-end systems, it never had 16 full lanes of PCIe connectivity to begin with.
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AMD still make machines that people actually use (I'm running an FX-8320E eight core now, and for my needs it's a great CPU).
I'll also point out that x64 was created by AMD.
It's a little bit on the bullshit side to claim they had a "brief period of success in the early 2000's" ... they're still a company with multi-billion dollar revenues.
They're doing just fine.
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And you called out the parent for bullshit? Oh wait, you said the parent had a little bullshit, so I guess you went for the full monty.
Even if Zen actually does what it is supposed to do, there's a very real possibility that AMD won't exist after 2019 when their crippling bond obligations come due.
Anybody who has seen AMD's financials with 6% and 7% interest rates on notes that were issued when the Fed was basically giving money away for free knows that AMD is far, far from "doing just fine." There are plenty of former AMD employees who could tell you that as well.
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I chose an FX8350 over an i5 because performance was objectively better than the i5 that cost 50% more for the applications that actually exercised my CPU at the time (Planetside 2, BF3/4, and transcoding).
I would have had to buy an i7 at 2x the price to match the FX8350, and why do that when I could use that money to upgrade my graphics card to the point that no Intel processor could have matched the performance increase?
Not everyone is a Saudi Prince, after all. I have a job and a family to feed, and with only $1500 to spend on a gaming rig, why waste money on Intel?
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AMD is a large company with many divisions. Some are "doing just fine", others not so much. Pointedly in the context of this particular thread, the previous poster is correct, in that AMD had "brief period of success in the early 2000's", however in terms of mid-range to enthusiast retail CPU market. At the low end they do fine, and for the server market they do even better.
You're right, the x64 was created by AMD, during that period of time, and was cutting edge and way before its time. Too far, in that no one really used that instruction set until many years later, after the chips that introduced it have long since obsolesce. Anyway I remember longing for the Athelon 64's back in the day, but in that one market segment, ever since Core 2 Duo they have never managed to catch up. However since then they have also gotten into the video GPU market in addition to those listed above. Anyway I would love to see them challenge Intel again in that segment (though in some very specific applications they do, just in general no so much).
And for all you AMD haters and doomsayers, you do realize that AMD gets paid for every Intel x64 chip that Intel sells, right? Otherwise you would be using some retarded Itanium consumer chip or still on 32 bit. Stick this chip on a decent MSI or ASUS motherboard with some fast ram and you have a nice PC for little cash.
If you're wondering what a Wraith Cooler is, here's an image.
It also depends on when you want to spend the money: Intel is currently a lot more power efficient.
I'm excitedly awaiting Zen though.
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I'm afraid you got it backwards. The Bulldozer architecture has a single FPU for each two-core module, so an eight-core processor has eight instruction pipelines and integer units but only four FPUs.
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