How is AMD mobo/chipset performance these days?

TheMorningStar · 15 Jan 2015 at 22:44

Been out of the game for a few years how are things looking for AMD chipsets?

Specifically things like sata/usb performance in comparison to intel. Anything new coming out from either AMD or Intel worth looking at? I'm considering a system upgrade once DDR4 is commonplace, summer maybe. Cost isn't to much of a concern but I generally don't go ultra high end.

Orcvader · 15 Jan 2015 at 23:48

There hasn't been anything new since Piledriver in 2012, which itself performed around the Phenom II level on per core performance. They are however working on a new architecture called Zen with hopes that it will be able to compete with Intel again but it's not expected until 2016.

So if money's not really a limit then I would say go with Intel, the Haswell i5s will perform significantly better than your 940.

As for SATA/USB performance it's pretty much the same between the two, providing it's the Intel/AMD chipset controlling the ports and not a 3rd party one.

TheMorningStar · 16 Jan 2015 at 00:54

Orcvader said:
There hasn't been anything new since Piledriver in 2012, which itself performed around the Phenom II level on per core performance. They are however working on a new architecture called Zen with hopes that it will be able to compete with Intel again but it's not expected until 2016.

So if money's not really a limit then I would say go with Intel, the Haswell i5s will perform significantly better than your 940.

As for SATA/USB performance it's pretty much the same between the two, providing it's the Intel/AMD chipset controlling the ports and not a 3rd party one.

Cheers, I'm in no dia rush.. maybe I could wait another year just to see what they turn out. Regarding the sata/usb speeds AMD were quite a bit down with their performance last I checked, which was of course years ago. I'm guessing AMD haven't said much about the zen chip at this point?

Orcvader · 16 Jan 2015 at 21:58

Sadly not much information but I do suspect it will be launched along side K12, AMD's ARM CPU, and possibly on 14nm using FinFET technology (which Intel's trigate technology is pretty similar to).