AMD CPUs that support DDR4?

[degraw]

Hey guys,

Does anyone have any information regarding a generation of AMD CPUs that support DDR4? From the information I have gathered, it appears as if they are pretty much discontinuing their CPUs and only producing APUs.

If I were to build a rig currently, it would be an FX-9590 paired with an R9-290x. The problem with this is that the FX-9590 does not support DDR4. So, the plan is to wait for a generation of AMD CPUs that does support it, but it almost appears as if that day will never come.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Vortex6700]

What are you wanting to do with your rig?

 

[caqde]

Hey guys,

Does anyone have any information regarding a generation of AMD CPUs that support DDR4? From the information I have gathered, it appears as if they are pretty much discontinuing their CPUs and only producing APUs.

If I were to build a rig currently, it would be an FX-9590 paired with an R9-290x. The problem with this is that the FX-9590 does not support DDR4. So, the plan is to wait for a generation of AMD CPUs that does support it, but it almost appears as if that day will never come.

Thanks for your help.

AMD has APU's and CPU's in the pipeline for next year that support DDR4. Now the question is which ones will come to the consumer space and when. As the rumors point to a 32core Opteron CPU and a 16core APU at this time. Mind you it is still early in 2015 and the rumors are going to be highly questionable until a lot closer to the actual release of a Zen based chip.

 

[PassMark]

DDR4 has been a disappointment so far. It doesn't add much to the overall system performance. By itself, it isn't worth waiting for. Of course in 6 months there will be new CPUs and video cards as well. Some of those might be worth the wait.

 

[caqde]

DDR4 has been a disappointment so far. It doesn't add much to the overall system performance. By itself, it isn't worth waiting for. Of course in 6 months there will be new CPUs and video cards as well. Some of those might be worth the wait.

This is very true for a CPU only chip I doubt it will offer much to a CPU. Although in AMD's case I think the new chips will offer more due to their architectural changes (goodbye bulldozer architecture) than the change over to DDR4. The APU's on the other hand will likely get a large boost from the move to DDR4 given the fact that they heavily use memory bandwidth.

Intel's APU chips might also see a boost from moving to DDR4 but we won't see if that is true for them until later this year. Although it seems their IGP's don't take advantage of memory bandwidth as much as AMD's do given the memory benchmarks I have seen.

 

[IronMaskDuval]

Why bother? Right now, there is no current use for DDR4 that DDR3 can't handle. If Windows 10 and new gen OSes can capitalize on augmented reality and 3D, perhaps DDR4 may become the new answer, but even then, current gen cpus will not do well with the aforementioned, so buying into DDR4 at the current moment is pointless.

 

[physic]

Wait until 2016 and hope AMD will release something nice .Now better stick with what you have.Bad new that DDR4 don't have price/performance ratio better that DRR3.I didn't feel DDR4 offer some special features that worth an upgrade.And even AMD cpu don't match up quite well compare to intel in games,games support 4 core as most now.