First Gigabyte AMD Gaming Motherboard announced!

[ajoy39]

People are getting too hung up on this being for APUs thinking that APUs will never be a high end product, but just because last gen APUs weren't good for anyone but budget gamers doens't mean that they won't be in the future. If we can get the CPU performance up to a competitive level AND have decent on chip graphics? AMD could make a lot of money off budget gamers.

[ajoy39]

That would require them to have caught up in miniaturization (process) as the FM2+ socket is physically much smaller. And to be perfectly honest, it's going to have had to be a hell of an impressive leap in AMD R&D if FM2+ really is "high end" and not just AMD's "highest" end. I am crossing my fingers for a "miracle" that cores will deliver respectable IPC.

 

Honestly I think it'll just be a die shrink with little to no improvement to go in the 'forgettaboutit' bin.

The good part though, will be that ITX boards will be feasible for AMD CPUs. Which sums up my entire use for AMD chips (the tiniest box imaginable with an APU under the TV)

Well, the graphics end of the APU is going ot see a huge boost no matter what. they're moving that up to GCN, which also means a 28nm process instead of the 40nm on the previous so they can fit either a bigger cpu die (more cores) or add a lot more graphics horse power. This, combined with the CPU die presumably moving from 32nm to 28nm (or whatever their next stepping is, I'm not 100% on this. they do have a contract with TSMC to start doing 20nm starting around now which would give them an early 2014 release date) so you get the same kind of effect. Will it be an i7 level of performance? doubtful, but it wouldn't surprise me to see a chip that could compete with a 4670k to the level that the 8350 did AND has some decent on board GPU power as well. 

[ERSCreeper]

Think about this. AMD keeps there APU's up to rival lets say the i5 at the same cost or less. You have a Epic CPU plus you get great on-board graphics. So lets say you are waiting for a new series of GPU to come out but you need a system (and you don't have a card). Which would you rather get?

 

I think this could be great thing AMD is doing!

[Frix]

I want a shielded sabertooth motherboard for AM3+

[onionring]

as long as they can get the apu to crossfire with cyrrent(at the time) high end gpu or dedicate it to something like physics calculations, it could be a winner...

[mymouthandi]

I think this is quite encouraging. I don't think Gigabyte would start bothering with a gaming board for FM2+ if it wasn't going to be a half decent gaming platform and if they didn't thing it was going to sell reasonably well. Maybe that 30% increase in performance that AMD is stating isn't going to be far off the mark. 

[Sgt]

 

 

Source : http://www.gigabyte.com/press-center/news-page.aspx?nid=1228

 

 

Taipei, Taiwan, August 16^th, 2013 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced its new FM2+ motherboard lineup supporting the forthcoming 'Keveri' AMD APUs with support for existing socket FM2 Trinity and Richland APUs.

[brownninja97]

i cant care less about this rubbish, i want a replacement for 990fx which has been out for way too long.

[WildTurtle]

AMD has just lost their mind.

[yhatz17]

hahah! what if the next FX chips will be using fm2+ mobo :D

well i dont really think that anyone would use 2 or more graphics card in a APU build.. i doesnt make sense :lol:

[ExDreamer]

Maybe a sign that next fx going to be fm2+

[mymouthandi]

AMD has just lost their mind.

Why do you say that?

[mymouthandi]

I get the feeling we may see more CPU's like the Athlon 750K, some APU's with the graphics disabled. 

 

The thing I don't understand is why are they announcing these boards now when the next APU's aren't due for 4 months? Seems strange to me. Then again, AMD said no new GPU's this year and that was a huge lie, so who knows what they are up to. 

[JAKEBAB]

gigabyte has really stepped up there game the last couple of years these boards look so nice they make me want to buy one for the sake of it.

[Loe]

It is Pcie 3.0, that is something interesting.

[Goldilock]

Damn, I am still waiting when they are going to put it in retailer.

 

My motherboard just died last month.

[ShadowRaven]

Damn, I am still waiting when they are going to put it in retailer.

 

My motherboard just died last month.

You and every one of us will be waiting a little while before it comes out

[allthatremains94]

hahah! what if the next FX chips will be using fm2+ mobo :D

well i dont really think that anyone would use 2 or more graphics card in a APU build.. i doesnt make sense :lol:

 

Maybe a sign that next fx going to be fm2+

They may be APUs, but it probably won't be on FM2+, unless they find a way to cram so much more into that smaller die.

 

I get the feeling we may see more CPU's like the Athlon 750K, some APU's with the graphics disabled. 

 

The thing I don't understand is why are they announcing these boards now when the next APU's aren't due for 4 months? Seems strange to me. Then again, AMD said no new GPU's this year and that was a huge lie, so who knows what they are up to. 

A few board partners usually announce something way ahead of launch. We saw this with Trinity and I believe Haswell/Ivy.

[CJPowell27]

Should've been mATX or ITX

[mymouthandi]

A few board partners usually announce something way ahead of launch. We saw this with Trinity and I believe Haswell/Ivy.

True, but 4 months before? That is a little odd. 

[Nicktrance]

Already posted twice before: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/46847-first-gigabyte-amd-gaming-motherboard-announced/

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/46905-gigabyte-launches-fm2-motherboard-lineup-for-kaveri-apus/

 

Like I said, though, it's nice to see AMD boards getting some attention.

[allthatremains94]

True, but 4 months before? That is a little odd. 

Saw it with Trinity, and i thought the very same. It's just marketing. Get yours known first, and it'll be the only known one for a while.