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AMD Launches FX 6330 Processor - But why?

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AMD has silently launched their latest FX-6000 series processor, the FX-6330 in mainland China. The latest chip comes exclusively to consumers in the APAC (Asian Pacific) market and is aimed at budget users who are using current generation AMD platforms. The processor is based on AMD’s 32nm Piledriver architecture and seen as a replacement to the FX-6300 processor which is sold at a similar price range as the latest offering.

AMD’s FX-6330 Black Edition Processor Available For Sale in Chinese Markets, Brand New, Silent Cooler 

 

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Um... what the hell amd, who decided this and why are you still using this old architecture :huh:  

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lol @ that TDP...higher than consumer i7 :D

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I like the box

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Just like the 370x, this is china only.

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What's wrong with a budget 6-core @4.2Jigahertz for $110USD?  Must be nice to be chinese and have the freedom to choose from more available options in your market.

The benches look okay, and it comes with a cooler that is worth a damn.  Looks pretty solid to me.

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lol @ that TDP...higher than consumer i7 :D

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lol @ that TDP...higher than consumer i7 :D

Manufacture the i7 with an 32nm process and it will use a LOT more power.

Also I think the engineering cost was low for this CPU as they reused old blocks. Also after some time you see how you can improve a CPU with some smal tweaks and that's what they did.

That's perfectly fine, IMHO.

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Nice box though, destroys intel's design.

 

Amen to that, it's a right fucking eye sore!

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Manufacture the i7 with an 32nm process and it will use a LOT more power.

Also I think the engineering cost was low for this CPU as they reused old blocks. Also after some time you see how you can improve a CPU with some smal tweaks and that's what they did.

That's perfectly fine, IMHO.

I7-2600 = 32nm lithography, 95w.

On top of that, TDP ≠ power usage.

 

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This is starting to get old AMD.  I know why they did the 9xxx series, and why they did the FX series.  The first was to cash in on OCing due to the 8320 holding a world record with the second cashing in on gimped Opterons.  The "E" versions were more energy efficient, but wtf?!  How do they have the money for all this engineering?!

 

They did the same with phenom x3 etc, it's just a better binned 6300 which is probably an 8xxx missing/faulty cores.

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I7-2600 = 32nm lithography, 95w.

On top of that, TDP ≠ power usage.

Ok, but then we have to compare the benchmark to an i7-2600...

And I know that TDP is not directly the power usage, I can push my i7 easely bejond 100% tdp. But it's a quick and dirty number to compare.

We need a test with several very specific workloads to compare power draw. Do you know somebody who does this?

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Ok, but then we have to compare the benchmark to an i7-2600...

And I know that TDP is not directly the power usage, I can push my i7 easely bejond 100% tdp. But it's a quick and dirty number to compare.

We need a test with several very specific workloads to compare power draw. Do you know somebody who does this?

Give me a 2600, a motherboard, and a multimeter, oh wait, you already have two of those. Go get yourself a multimeter, Sony Vegas, adobe premier, cinema 4D, a couple of games, and some files you need to compress. I've got all of those, but not the 2600, mobo, and multimeter.

It's not hard to run a couple of tests like that.

 

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Give me a 2600, a motherboard, and a multimeter, oh wait, you already have two of those. Go get yourself a multimeter, Sony Vegas, adobe premier, cinema 4D, a couple of games, and some files you need to compress. I've got all of those, but not the 2600, mobo, and multimeter.

It's not hard to run a couple of tests like that.

Yes, but I need this information before I buy a product. So I need some kind of database. I assume you don't know any either?

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Yes, but I need this information before I buy a product. So I need some kind of database. I assume you don't know any either?

A database of what? Take a 6300, Bench it in these scenarios, recording power usage per each test, take your 2600 and mobo, replace the 6300, and run the same tests while monitoring power usage.

Compare score/watt, done.

 

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Compare score/watt, done.

 

Why score/watt on 2600 vs 6330?

 

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Price/perf

i7 Hyperthreaded 4 core $278 MSRP(which is no longer available anyways) vs 6 core $110.  They're sufficently different where price/perf is the only meaningful metric.

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Jeez guys, what's all the hate about? Can't they make some tuning to their current offering while they work on zen? It's not like this is delaying it any further... and complaining about using piledriver at this point is just silly, what did you expect when their next architecture hasn't even been presented yet?

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3-4 years of longevity statistics gives them a basis for doing something like this. Board partner data has likely shown that 4.2 Ghz is the "longevity breaking point" on the 970 chipset boards, so they pre-clock it to 4.2 and let people get 990FX if they want more. Then they could be all like "you didn't read the manual lolol" when people get 970FX boards for any more.

 

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If it replaces the 6300, at the same price, and a higher clock speed, how can it be a bad thing ? AMD probably noticed that most, if not all, of their 6300 could be clocked higher than they were, so they have a product with more value at no cost to them.

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lol @ that TDP...higher than consumer i7 :D

they probably calculate the tdp differently with amd going with the max tdp while intel is going with the most common use case scenario tdp. i had a fx6300 and now i have an i7 4770 and even though the 4770 says it has lower tdp it gets 30 degrees celcius hotter with the same 212 evo cooler

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