New package and re-release of the FX-9590/FX-9370 with Water Cooling Kits. Also possibility a different brand than Asetek.
Marketing isn't only about the advertising you see in websites and newspapers, but about customer profiling, market trends, TAM, the whole deal. Marketing in AMD's case has influence in the definition of the very scope of a given project. AMD failed not only because they engineered a poor product compared to Intel, but because some of the drivers in the scope were dissociated of some very important market trends. So yes, AMD marketing sucks, and because of that so do their products.
That said, the guys advertising for AMD are a rare, special breed. Those guys make AMD products look even worse than they are.
Well it actually depends on what AMD does.Wow, that would be so sad.
The million dollar question is why they are not trying to make an enthusiast CPU with a TDP less than 100w that doesn't guzzle power. Where is AMD's 4770? Its 2014. Its getting to the point where AMD will never catch up.
Don't see why you couldn't. I don't know if that really would fix things, though. They're doubling the width, which honestly isn't too different.Somewhere I read a rumor that AMD was doubling the FPU count in their next desktop release, but that seems impossibly far-fetched. Pretty sure the module design is too baked-in to change that radically. If only, though.
They really couldn't have released a worse die shot if they tried. Actually, they could if they went the Nvidia route and released fake die shots...This should help for comparisons.
AMD has left the foundation for increased units with Steamroller. While Steamroller itself does not have increased units. 28-nm SHP to 20-nm LPM is going to be a full node shrink. 2.41 billion to <4.8 billion transistors and an even more blurry die shot.Don't see why you couldn't. I don't know if that really would fix things, though. They're doubling the width, which honestly isn't too different.
It is actually pretty clear now after staring at it for six months. I shouldn't have been comparing it with "Super Piledriver."They really couldn't have released a worse die shot if they tried. Actually, they could if they went the Nvidia route and released fake die shots...
Maybe if I win the lottery, I'll go crack open a Kaveri package and take a picture myself.
The issue is that they photographed the die with (some of) the upper metal layers on.AMD has left the foundation for increased units with Steamroller. While Steamroller itself does not have increased units. 28-nm SHP to 20-nm LPM is going to be a full node shrink. 2.41 billion to <4.8 billion transistors and an even more blurry die shot.
The million dollar question for me is AM3+ or FM2?
I think they are, from what I remember on one of their fairly recent road maps, it showed that Excavator was supposed to be a 65 watt part on the high end. I'm not sure what you mean by asking where is AMD's 4770. They certainly have an uphill battle against Intel, but have some promising technology and seem to be making fairly competent moves in a much more proactive way than they have in the past where they always seemed to be in a reactionary mode. I don't know if they'll ever catch up with Intel in absolute performance or efficiency, as I said that'a an up hill battle. But I think AMD would be pretty happy if they could get things to a similar level of competition and they have with Nvidia. AMD's top GPU typically behind by a bit compared to Nvidia's highest end silicon, but close enough to make potential buyers think about which one to go with while still selling them without having to totally drop the prices to the basement to do so.
The million dollar question for me is AM3+ or FM2?
that would be my question as well because i am in need of a new amd fx processor
AM3+ is dead.
They're not saying it's discontinued...no it's not dead because i can see lots of amd am3+ cpu available at my usual computer shops
no it's not dead because i can see lots of amd am3+ cpu available at my usual computer shops
I think they are, from what I remember on one of their fairly recent road maps, it showed that Excavator was supposed to be a 65 watt part on the high end. I'm not sure what you mean by asking where is AMD's 4770. They certainly have an uphill battle against Intel, but have some promising technology and seem to be making fairly competent moves in a much more proactive way than they have in the past where they always seemed to be in a reactionary mode. I don't know if they'll ever catch up with Intel in absolute performance or efficiency, as I said that'a an up hill battle. But I think AMD would be pretty happy if they could get things to a similar level of competition and they have with Nvidia. AMD's top GPU typically behind by a bit compared to Nvidia's highest end silicon, but close enough to make potential buyers think about which one to go with while still selling them without having to totally drop the prices to the basement to do so.
ASUS released an ROG FM2+ board recently.Bets it'll be for FM2+.
But MSI just released a new AM3+ 970 board...
Dead as in "no more new CPUs", not dead as in not for sale.