Poll: *Poll* Buy new FX CPU release

[joeyjojo]

This doesn't contribute much to the thread but it's important nevertheless...

I would like to buy a AMD CPU but atm they are just to power hungry, I do like how they keep the sockets for a long time but my i5 I have had it 2 years and it will be good for another 3-5 years for me. Think the first thing AMD needs is to lower the amount of power they use or make something like the i7 for i5 money, without using overclocking headroom.

I find it surprising people keep writing this. An 8320 system only uses a little more power than first gen i7, and I don't remember anyone complaining about power consumption then.

Vishera uses relatively a lot more power than newer gen i5/i7 (about 100% more), but in absolute terms it's nothing - about 100 W at load, maybe £10 a year for a typical PC. Practically nothing.

 

[jh30uk]

Nothing to say but voted bottom choice, use to be AMD fanboy 2001 till Intel C2D which made gap so wide it killed that.

 

[rolypolyman]

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

Just this very day purchased an Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor and a Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard. So no Amd cpu for some time.

 

[McstylisT]

This doesn't contribute much to the thread but it's important nevertheless...



I find it surprising people keep writing this. An 8320 system only uses a little more power than first gen i7, and I don't remember anyone complaining about power consumption then.

Vishera uses relatively a lot more power than newer gen i5/i7 (about 100% more), but in absolute terms it's nothing - about 100 W at load, maybe £10 a year for a typical PC. Practically nothing.

True, I'll give you credit there

However , your comparing the latest most up to date series chip AMD have. The I range ( 920 or 860 ) we're colossus advancements in power at there time of release, comparing to previous Q9*** range. We're not talking the usual 10% improvements like today's releases!! no no! these changed things big time and have got to be one of Intels best chips in history. The initial power change did go 130w, but on sandy bridge they soon went down to 95w, with another nice performance increase.

So if the 83 series had showed that much advancement, people would have no right to complain. As it stands it's a reasonable performing chip with a high power requirement.

 

[~Dockie]

Would your cpu not bottleneck your tri fire graphics cards?

It does yes, however on the games i play with the settings i want (as high as they will go), apart from the odd one or two games it can hold 60fps.

 

[joeyjojo]

So if the 83 series had showed that much advancement, people would have no right to complain. As it stands it's a reasonable performing chip with a high power requirement.

Good point. It's absolutely amazing how low the power consumption on new Intel CPUs is when you think about it.

 

[mmj_uk]

I find it surprising people keep writing this. An 8320 system only uses a little more power than first gen i7, and I don't remember anyone complaining about power consumption then.

Back then (2008) the i7 9xx was the fastest CPU around, the fact is it's 2014 and Intel CPU's are now significantly more efficient, case in point the FX8350 gets utterly destroyed in raw CPU performance by Intel's current 130W TDP parts and don't forget Intel's 80-90W parts have a GPU inclusive.

Vishera uses relatively a lot more power than newer gen i5/i7 (about 100% more), but in absolute terms it's nothing - about 100 W at load, maybe £10 a year for a typical PC. Practically nothing.

but when you can get parts (ie. i5) which are in the majority of cases faster for a similar price (taking mobo/cooling into account) as well as having more up-to-date/feature rich motherboards and even an iGPU it's a no brainer really, power usage is just one of the many factors in Intel's favour.

As for the point of the thread, I might get one just to play around with but AMD really need to just get back to the drawing boards, a souped-up 4-6 core Phenom would have been more of a success than their 8 core modular architecture.

 

[Troezar]

If AMD brought out an eight core CPU with good IPC on less threaded software then I'd buy it. I can't see Intel doing that at a sensible price let alone AMD.

 

[Tohrazer]

i can't see AMD competing with intel in the enthusiast market anytime soon unless something drastic changes