AMD FX-Series Lineup Revealed in CPU Support List

[mickey21]

[citation][nom]silverblue[/nom]Funny, because "just enough" seems to be a rather new idea. In any case, the biggest wins for Intel seem to be in synthetic benchmarks, and until SB came out, was there really any point in buying a 6-core Intel over AMD's Thuban? The price difference was shocking... it still is.[/citation]
Not that I am a fanboy because I really am not, I will buy whatever is best. AMD or Intel fanboys will always cry the phrase of money/performance ratio when the cards are down. At some point, people just want the best money can buy, and until AMD shows that, the majority of enthusiasts like the ones you see posting here will likely go for the stronger slightly more expensive player, because in the end, they like power for their money. There is no argument that AMD cant compete, it just doesnt always make sense and talking about price gaps when slower is slower just doesnt win your case.

 

[silverblue]

Owning a 6-core Intel CPU over a Thuban means an average of about 30-40% better performance but it's whether you need to spend that much. Having said that, it's the lack of competition from AMD which is precisely the reason as to why these processors are priced so highly to begin with. Thuban's not a bad processor, I'm just asking why somebody would spend triple the money (right now, anyway) for that sort of boost. Gamers? Not amazingly likely unless you really wanted to own the fastest CPU at the time.

 

[silverblue]

I will add that neither Westmere nor Thuban are gaming CPUs. For gaming, the best choice right now is the 2500K without any question - AMD can only compete on the lower end if you're talking price/performance for gaming. If you're not gaming predominantly, well, that's a harder choice to make - is the 2100 series good enough, or does Llano have a place? What about an Athlon II X4 if you just want to work, or would one of those new Pentiums be perfect for you? At the high end, would the Westmeres be worth it over the 2600K for productivity?

See, not a fanboy, just trying to be a realist.

 

[verbalizer]

I will add that neither Westmere nor Thuban are gaming CPUs. For gaming, the best choice right now is the 2500K without any question - AMD can only compete on the lower end if you're talking price/performance for gaming. If you're not gaming predominantly, well, that's a harder choice to make - is the 2100 series good enough, or does Llano have a place? What about an Athlon II X4 if you just want to work, or would one of those new Pentiums be perfect for you? At the high end, would the Westmeres be worth it over the 2600K for productivity?

See, not a fanboy, just trying to be a realist.

phenom ii x4 965be...
you seem to be not giving it enough credit.
yes, it can't run with the SB i5-2500k but it never could that's OK.
but when clocked @ 4GHz on the regular basis, what can it not do then.?
965be @ 4.0GHz, I'm good with that..

a fx-4110 or say Zambezi in general is to be what, 30-35% better than the Deneb and will smash the Thuban from what I hear
per core..

 

[silverblue]

You've got a good point. As long as you're not concerned about the extra power usage, it's a good choice and not too pricey either. It's a shame that AMD didn't move Zosma to 32nm as we'd be seeing well over 4GHz on those clocks.

Bulldozer is still an unknown... there's further doubts about when it'll be released but that could just be more FUD being spread.

 

[verbalizer]

^
agreed..

 

[IH8U]

I'll run my Thuban and 6950 (2gb ref) x-fire setup for now. It does look like there may be a fire sale on older AM3 chips after the 19th (regardless of how BD does). I'm happy AMD is bringing back the FX moniker (used with the first iterations of the Athlon 64's, ie the FX-53).
My socket 940 FX-53 is a tank, it just keeps going (gave it to a friend, still works BTW).

 

[verbalizer]

I'm going to turn my Gigabyte 990x rig into a PhysX unit.
With the 'certified' hacked drivers (LOL) to make my HD 6870 run Eyefinity with the GTS 450 running PhysX..😀
I have a SLI unit already and have the extra hardware laying around..

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]silverblue[/nom]Owning a 6-core Intel CPU over a Thuban means an average of about 30-40% better performance but it's whether you need to spend that much.[/citation]
That's a lot closer to reality then 15%, but it still isn't close to the actual performance gain you'll find in many threaded workloads. Honestly, where are you guys pulling these figures from?

Photoshop CS5 shows a 76% performance advantage for the i7-990x over the Phenom II x6 1100T. Premier Pro CS5 shows a 2.7x performance increase, Blender is 70%, 3D Studio Max is 45%, Cinebench 11.5 is 57%, Main Concept 2.0 is 49% (this is straight off Tom's bench suite). These gains are significant, especially when you're performing iterative renders that can take hours or even days a piece. You won't see these types of performance gains when gaming of course, but that's true for most processors with 4+ threads. The true performance potential of these processors are found in productivity, content creation, and video encoding applications.

 

[h1gh0nc4tf00d]

Anyone hope those leaked engineering samples were crappy fakes planted by AMD?