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Poll: *Poll* Buy new FX CPU release

If AMD release a new Steamroller CPU that's 10% faster, 20% more power efficient but £20 more expens

  • I own a current AMD CPU and would upgrade to Steamroller

    Votes: 9 8.3%

  • I own a current AMD CPU and would NOT upgrade to Steamroller

    Votes: 5 4.6%

  • I own a current AMD CPU and would ONLY upgrade to Steamroller if its AM3+

    Votes: 13 11.9%

  • I own an Intel CPU and would buy this new AMD Steamroller CPU

    Votes: 10 9.2%

  • I own an Intel CPU and would NOT buy this new AMD Steamroller CPU

    Votes: 72 66.1%
  • Total voters
    109

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Its been a little while since we had a new CPU from AMD (CPU, not APU, like the current FX line)
2 years this October since the release of the FX-83## series, it actually feels longer than that.
I don't think its actually unreasonable to have 18 Moths or 2 years between new releases of CPU's, but anything more than that IMO is getting a bit long.

There is nothing in sight from AMD that replaces the Vishera Architecture, but we have had 3 new APU's from AMD in that time, each one improved upon the last.

One of the complaints about Vishera is its power consumption, as a user of one (an FX-8350) i will agree it is greedy, that does cause it to run warmer than i would like, but it is faster than the P-II x6 1090T it replaced, often a lot faster.

Now if we go back to those APU's we can think of Vishera being the CPU equivalent of the A10-5800K, they have the same 32nm CPU revision.
The next APU 'like the A10-6800K' was a new revision of that 32nm architecture, it had about a 10% power efficiency improvement.
The third and current one is the A10-7850K, it actually runs 10% lower clock rates while being -5% to +5% ~ +10% ~ +15% faster, depending on the situation and excluding HSA, it is built on the new 28nm SteamRoller architecture and is some 25% more power efficient on the CPU side than then already 10% more power efficient A10-6800K.

So in a sentence; AMD have come a long way in the time we have had the current line of FX CPU's.
As a CPU user don't you feel a little left out? i know i do.

So with all of that in mind my poll question is:
If AMD was to release a new 28nm FX SteamRoller line of 8 core CPU's with 10% better performance and 20% better power efficiency for £20 more than price of the current 8 core would you;

# I own a current AMD CPU and would upgrade to Steamroller
# I own a current AMD CPU and would NOT upgrade to Steamroller
# I own a current AMD CPU and would ONLY upgrade to Steamroller if its AM3+
# I own an Intel CPU and would buy this new AMD Steamroller CPU
# I own an Intel CPU and would NOT buy this new AMD Steamroller CPU

I will be sending this poll to AMD. so if you have anything you would like to say to them in regards to this here is your chance. :)
 
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# I own a current AMD CPU and would upgrade to Steamroller if it was AM3+

Don't really feel the need to upgrade yet, so i think the 8320 will keep me going for a while. Would be nice to see AMD come back though.

EDIT: I think the FX have a lot of potential, they're just a bit ahead of their time.
 
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~Dockie said:
# I own a current AMD CPU and would upgrade to Steamroller if it was AM3+

Don't really feel the need to upgrade yet, so i think the 8320 will keep me going for a while. Would be nice to see AMD come back though.
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Ah, interesting twist on the motherboard, i think i will add that option. :)
 
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# I own an Intel CPU and would NOT buy this new AMD Steamroller CPU

Nothing against AMD, have owned and enjoyed several of their CPU's in the past, but their latest offerings would still be uninteresting at 10% faster and 20% more efficient.
 
# I own an Intel CPU and would NOT buy this new AMD Steamroller CPU

All the games I am interested in perform much better on intel.
 
I own an Intel CPU and would NOT buy this new AMD Steamroller CPU

It would need to offer more than 10% increase in performance to tempt me away from Intel.

Not interested in APU's, AMD need to design a new CPU that will give a good increase in performance and also efficiency that will properly take on Intel and in turn force them to do the same.
 
First one to vote, YAY!

As most who have posted I loved the old AMD Phenom CPU range. They were horrendously good value for money and kept up with the intel CPU's of the time.

The reason I wouldn't buy an AMD CPU (until they have a complete re-design) is their inherent CPU architecture. The Single Threaded performance is a bit of a let down for me.

Once the change tact and go back to the Phenom days, ill be very interested again.. But I feel that's a good 3-5 years away.
 
First in the yes camp.

Yes I would buy one, but currently the FX8350 does everything required. I have owned this for almost two years now since release, so another 12 months max, I will refresh it.

Likewise the chipset, AM3+ whilst good is due a refresh so would probably buy a new board and the socket is of less importance to maintain.
 
For me to go back to AMD that i had for over 10 years they need.

New socket + new architecture. At lest 20% IPC more than what they got atm.
 
I own an Intel CPU and would NOT buy this new AMD Steamroller CPU

I agree with Lord Zed's comments above only it would need to be faster than Intels current offerings and that isn't going to happen anytime soon.
 
I think it'll need to be more than just a 10% performance increase to consider it. If it was on AM3+ then it's still pretty much a dead end and at £20 more expensive it'll be starting to approach i5 4690k price. The i5 is still going to be well ahead in IPC and on a Z97 board you still have a future upgrade path to Broadwell so I just can't see the AMD chip being a smart long term move.
 
I'm very surprised the 83xx series is also two years old. I'm under the "I own a current AMD CPU and would NOT upgrade to Steamroller"

I might be temped to fit into if it was AM3+, but i think i would much rather hold off on upgrading and go for an Intel somewhere down the line.
 
I own Intel and wouldn't buy this CPU, but I rarely buy for myself and I build for systems.
Depending on the price point you could get SR chips at (If it's 20 pound more expensive at all price points, then probably not) I would possibly buy.

So I can't vote :p
 
10% faster and 20% less power draw still won't match my 2500K, on either compute power or performance per watt, I think. Changing to AMD makes no sense at all.

Not that I'm an Intel fanboy. If AMD came out with something that really matched a Haswell i5 or i7, and pulled less at the wall than either, then I'd give it some serious thought for my next build - even if it cost more than the Intel option. No objection to paying a premium for the best product, but it has to be the best product :)
 
got a 3770k so theres nothing intel are bringing out that would make me upgrade let alone amd

However honestly amd need to sort it out from the ground up they need to bring something new and fresh hopefully a new am4 socket with ddr4 and a complete rebuild of the cpu line. Im sure they are working on it the improvements in their gpus show they arnt happy to play second best to anyone so come on amd give us something to make us wow again
 
I'm hoping it's with DDR4 that AMD made a good attempt at a come back to be brutally honest, I hope they're *not* first to the DDR4 socket and take their time (Like with AM3, they were second to use DDR3, by at a guess almost a year)

At the time of Haswell's launch, for me to have went to an AMD chip over Haswell, it would have needed to be lynnfield IPC when two cores on a module are used (So, each would be like lynnfield cores) while overclocking as PD does now.

At this moment in time, for me to go AMD, it'd need to be Sandy IPC clocking like Haswell (None DC) does.

And Intel could launch both Broadwell and be on the cusp of launching Skylake by the time we see the new AMD chip, and that would need to be Haswell IPC with Sandy overclocking to even start to sound viable.
 
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humbug said:
# I own a current AMD CPU and would ONLY upgrade to Steamroller if its AM3+
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This^

However, it should be noted that I am currently rocking an Athlon X2 on AM3+. I'll be upgrading to FX whenever I start to find the Athlon insufficient - and I'll just get whatever is kicking about when I do (so the release of SR on AM3+ wouldn't affect my purchase).

On a new socket, it wouldn't be worth my while over a drop-in upgrade to Vishera
 
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Thanks for making it a poll. Doomedspeed :)

Time for me to vote.

# I own a current AMD CPU and would upgrade to Steamroller.

My only issue with AMD's CPU's as they currently are is power consumption, it is too high. unreasonably high, lets be honest.

Other than that i rather like AMD's CPU's , if they can get the power consumption down significantly i would replace the FX-8350, i want to replace it with such cited Steamrooler FX.

You still have customers for your CPU's, AMD. you can do better than what your currently selling us, don't forget about us, not everyone thinks APU's are the future.
Not unless the CPU parts in them can better your current crop of top end CPU's
 
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