Thoughts on Steamroller?

[NewKID]

what ive collected from reading around was that itll be using am3+ and will be released next year. im guessin thered be a new chipset also. do you think 970, 990fx and 990x will be supported by Streamroller? what rumours have you guys seen?

[HEXiT]

if it has the same kind of performance jump that 8350 brought over the previous buldoser then it will be a very decent gaming platform as well as rendering workhorse...

pretty decent value although amd is catching up a bit i still think it will be second fiddle to an 8 threaded haswell. but we wont know for sure till there both out and both tested against each other.

in a way i hope it and excavator pull a fast 1 and land with a 20%+ performance gain that will put it past intel for the first time since athlon as it will force intel to give us what they have been holding back for the last 3 years and thats the 8 and 12 core cpu's at a reasonable price of-course...

[mono]

From what i've heard about Haswell's improvements in performance i'm really looking forward to steamroller. I'm pretty sure the 970, 990FX, 990X will support the steamroller after a BIOS update. As we are seeing more and more games going to multi-threading and the next gen consoles being 8 cored i think the next AMD chips have a potential to get back in the gaming cpu market as a true competitor for Intel. Using a Core i5 now i'm getting worried about it not performing that well in 2 years time - just as Core 2 Duos became outdated really quickly.

[unidentical]

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/amd_steamroller_on_track_for_2013_launch.html

Some interesting info here, it looks like AMD has been working hard to address the pitfalls of piledriver so we may see the module architecture come of age, as it were, in this iteration.

Fingers crossed.

I would love to see AMD back in black, at the very least as a strong competitor, if not the dominant performer.

Socket 939 anyone?

[Andster29]

It seems like AMD will have an advantage in motherboards since everything is not moving to the chip like Intel is doing. I have seen an article saying a 30% speed increese.

[Lemonsquare]

It's worth noting that Piledriver/Vishera 2.0 is supposed to arrive roughly the same time as Haswell. Broadwell will arrive at roughly the same time as Steamroller, so the Steamroller-Haswell comparisons don't make much sense to me. The apparent 30% performance increase is significant though, I really hope AMD will be competing at a high-end/enthusiast level with Intel sooner than later. Staying on the same socket is good in terms of affordability and upgradeability, but conversely has its disadvantages in regards to new standards and technologies that generally come with a new socket.

[unidentical]

If it can compete with Haswell (and the release dates should be fairly close) I will happily switch back to the green team. I desperately want AMD back in action, competition is critical.

[NewKID]

AMD wont be releasing a CPU this year