AMD Readies A10-7890K, A8-7690K and Athlon X4 880K Socket FM2+ Chips

[Boomstick777]

AMD is planning to expand its socket FM2+ chip lineup with three new parts, the A10-7890K and A8-7690K APUs, and the Athlon X4 880K CPU. The three parts surfaced on the compatibility list of socket FM2+ motherboards by BIOSTAR. The architecture mentioned is "Kaveri," but the silicon could very well be "Godavari," (Kaveri refresh).

The refreshed lineup will be led by the A10-7890K, which features CPU clock speeds of 4.10 GHz out of the box, with an unknown TurboCore frequency (the current series leader A10-7870K offers 3.90 GHz with 4.10 GHz TurboCore). The A8-7690K offers CPU clocks of 3.70 GHz, and an unknown TurboCore frequency. There's no word on the iGPU clock speeds of the two chips. The third and most intriguing part is the Athlon X4 880K, with 4.00 GHz CPU clocks. The Athlon X4 FM2+ series lack integrated graphics, and make for good buys for people planning to build machines with discrete GPUs, on the FM2+ platform. All three chips offer unlocked base-clock multipliers, enabling CPU overclocking.

https://www.techpowerup.com/215881/...690k-and-athlon-x4-880k-socket-fm2-chips.html

 

[Boomstick777]

Think the Athlon X4 880K might become a real budget gem. FM2+ mobo's are cheap as chips, throw in a 880K 4GHz quad core and something like an 370 and you have a cheap lil gaming build.

 

[Boomstick777]

This is great news. Depending on the turbo speeds of the 880k and 7890k this will be a worthwhile upgrade for me, as I currently overclock to 4.3Ghz and I wouldn't mind being able to stably overclock higher on lower voltage. Going from 7850k to the 7870k is not worth the outleigh for me really, but this might do.

I may even consider just going with the 880k since I now have a discrete graphics card, but it depends on how the 880k compares to the 7890k in overclocking and general performance.

You might find the 880K clocks better as it has no IGPU. Interested to see if the GPU part is getting another clock boost on the 7890K, like 7870K VS 7850K.

How to you find the 7850K with DGPU for gaming? Does it hold back your GPU much?

 

[Boomstick777]

The 2012 X4s were slightly slower than their Phenom II equivalents clock for clock on anand's limited set of benchmarks:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/102?vs=1284
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare_CPUs/AMD_AD750KWOA44HJ,AMD_HDZ965FBK4DGI/

Gaming could be a different story.

Looking at that link we can see the older X4 750K was clocked at 3.4GHz, these new chips coming in at 4.0GHz so should do a bit better. Def potential for a great budget CPU.

 

[Boomstick777]

I'm in my 30's doing software dev.... yet still struggle

I was thinking a little about my comments about how impressed I am with the 7850k for the money. I looked at my performance against a random 'ultra' grid autosport chart/bench with the same card. I can't remember where I saw it, but at a higher resolution than mine, and I set everything to the highest it could go (I didn't look at how they configured it except they said 'ultra'), and mine was lower.

Made me think that although I'm impressed with the chip, I don't have another platform to compare it to to say whether or not it is actually holding the gpu back or not. So from now on, until I can make some form of comparison I will not say things like 'it won't hold it back', because I don't really have the evidence to back myself up.

Out of curiosity what made you choose the 7850K if your using a dedicated GPU? You could have got the Athlon 860K (£50) which is the same CPU as 7850K but without integrated graphics.

That's what is appealing about the upcoming Athlon 880K, it's the same CPU as 7870K (FM2+, PCI 3.0, SATA 3 etc) , higher clocked, binned and soldered like the 7870K but without IGPU, so lower price point. Throw in a DGPU and makes an ideal budget PC.

 

[Boomstick777]

I didn't initially have a gpu, and I knew this would give me a stepping stone to one later.

880k will be soldered? Nice. Might have to take a serious look at that chip depending on how they review.

Ah yeah that makes sense.

Yeah like the 7870K the 880K is soldered which reduces temps a bit. That's what gave the 7870K the clock speed extra headroom VS 7850K apparently.

I think the 880K would be pointless for you now as you already on a 7850K, but for someone looking at a new budget build, an 860K / 880K with FM2+ mobo is ideal. You get all modern chipset feature set and is a really cheap setup.

 

[Boomstick777]

What is the advantage of this cpu over a 2nd hand i7 ? What is cheap as chips ?

120 quid buys you a 2600k + mobo, or a first gen i7 ( like i7 940) + mobo...

And it's not even a ''real'' quad core, it only has 2 floating point units doesn't it ? Unlike the intels who are real quadcores, and even have HT for 8 threads...

I've recently had a punt with AMD again ( I build pc's from 2nd hand stuff and sell em on in the weekends), but I don't see it being value for money compared to sandybridge. Way to expensive for the performance you get. Unless you're obsessed with new, AMD has far worse value for money. I mean per clock they're barely any faster than the ages old core 2 quads, let alone the i gen cpu's from intel.

Could you not say this about any used bargain price product?

We were talking about cheap budget PC parts, obviously new pricing.

But yeah second hand used prices are good when compared to newer stuff...