[TPU] No New FX Processor From AMD in 2013

Good, I'm tired of buying a CPU and then 6 months later they make new one 5-10% better than that. Make my upgrades worth it or stop wasting my time. This goes for all technology makers. They need to stop cluttering the market with a slew marginally better products and make something worth while for a change.

I guess that's OK for me. I'm going to buy an FX-8350 soon so at least I will have AMD's flagship CPU for a year.

So Steamroller just doesn't exist at this point? I mean it even says Richland (What? Richland? Since when?) is using Piledriver. This never happens.
Ever.

This is surprising, and quite disappointing news.

You don't have to purchase a new CPU every new generation. In fact, the more that technology manufacturers update their products, ceteris paribus, the more the consumer benefits:

• Say in 2011 you purchase a processor.
• Each new generation earns 8-10% more power.
• They release a new processor 8% faster 6 months later and a newer processor 10% faster after 12 months
• You purchase a new processor 12 months after your Initial purchase of 2011
• You now have a processor that is 18.8% faster than your processor of 2011
• If the company had only released 1 new generation in that time period, your new processor in 2012 would only be 8% faster.

And of course, one can manipulate the values of time and the performance gain. Either way, the more frequently that products are updated, the more you will benefit.
Edited by SkillzKillz - 11/5/12 at 12:22am

Perhaps this has to do with expansion ability in the existing Piledriver design.

 

AMD has targeted 10-15% CPU performance improvements each year. Perhaps this may not even require Steamroller. Piledriver is very expandable. The A10-5700 is living proof of what this processor can do in terms of power-efficiency and performance. The CPU cores of the A10-5700 are, while perhaps not up there on certain tasks, actually consume as much (or as little) power as the i3 3220, while the GPU cores introduce a whole new level of power efficiency that allows AMD to claim a total win. There could be more improvements made to that, even in just the process node perhaps. I just hope that the HSA improvements planned with Kaveri are retained in this generation. That's going to be the real kicker for AMD. AMD's HSA strategy is phenomenal, but they need to be able to deliver that hardware....

AMD has already stated, however, that there will be Steamroller compatibility on AM3+. That indicates that if anything this is merely a delay and not a cancellation (as OBR on his site is already so forward-thinking to claim >_>)

 

This matches up with a Trinity 2.0 rumour released last August.

Why is this good? It's not like your hardware suddenly becomes slow and obsolete when something new comes out.

:(I was hoping to be able to get an SR eight core (8550?) but no. Although in order to stay competetive they might need to drop the prices quiet alot to be able to compete with haswell which should be good for us all.

Well my Phenom II 965 is still alive and kicking for games, don't really need the CPU for much else. Not sure if I can last into 2014 tho. We'll see in the coming months about steamroller.

Just because DonanimHaber says it doesn't make it true. But don't discount them either. A 965 with a 7970? That bottleneck is already massive.