New AMD CPU's?! [Speculation]

[Jerakl]

Today whilst browsing facebook I came upon a post from AMD, it is as follows.

 

The war continues to rage and battles may be lost but heroes will evolve. ‪#‎AMDEvolved‬

 

My Analysis:

The Majority of the armored man/robot in the pictures armor is black, however to me it looks like a good 1/3 is red. This could mean some new black edition CPUs or something.

AMD hasn't really released any "enthusiast grade" CPU's in a while, at least from what I hear. So I think this would be well received with the community.

 

AGAIN THIS IS ALL JUST SPECULATION AND I FOUND IT INTERESTING AND THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE

Feel free to move this if it's in the wrong place, mods.

 

 

SOURCE:

https://www.facebook.com/AMD?fref=photo

 

Again, this is just me making educated guesses (lots of them) based on this post. Hell it could be a new graphics card or RAM. Or something totally unrelated. Maybe even a new rewards package when you buy a GPU!

 

As aforementioned, I thought it was interesting so I should share it. Sharing is caring

 

[o3871]

Half Life 3 confirmed

[BonBon Scott]

It's about time they did something with their CPU lineup.

[flibberdipper]

AM4 incoming.

[o3871]

AM4 incoming.

 

And some mobos I actually would buy maybe ?

[antoainb]

W00T W00T!!! 

[Snickerzz]

And some mobos I actually would buy maybe ?

i really need a new mobo/cpu, would love to get a good am4 board with a new cpu

[LukaP]

CORE is back could mean they are going back to core based SMT instead of the module based CMT

[kuddlesworth9419]

It's probably just APU stuff.

[Jerakl]

CORE is back could mean they are going back to core based SMT instead of the module based CMT

I don't know what that means.

[LukaP]

I don't know what that means.

hahahha SMT is what both intel and AMD were doing before bulldozer, when AMD decided that it will try the more parallel, but less single thread optimised CMT design, and we see where this brought them

[Misanthrope]

Don't get your hopes up, it's probably another damn APU

[Glenwing]

Assuming that Jim Keller is their chief architect working on a new non-bulldozer-based x86 core, it wouldn't be ready until late 2015 or 2016 based on when he joined them.  If that was the case I doubt they'd announce it so early.  If they are going to launch ealier than that I'm all for it, but not if it's not ready.  I'd rather they do things right than fast.

 

Also I doubt they'd keep going with a separate "CPU" high performance line on AM4 or whatever.  It seems likely they would merge everything onto the FM platform so at least the motherboards and chipsets would remain the same.  Ultimately that doesn't mean anything in terms of performance, Intel's CPUs have had integrated graphics for years and no one complains about their CPU performance, so I don't have a problem if AMD only release APUs from this point out just because they're APUs.  It's all in the architecture.

[RubyRoks]

It's probably 6 or 8 core APUs...

[AnnoyedShelf]

It's probably just APU stuff.

I wouldn't think that.  I know that they said they were focusing on APU's, but this doesn't look like an APU marketing campaign IMHO.

[Manny Calavera]

It says in the end of video A series.

 

A series are APUs. Like A10. A8. A6. 

 

So yea...

[Misanthrope]

Assuming that Jim Keller is their chief architect working on a new non-bulldozer-based x86 core, it wouldn't be ready until late 2015 or 2016 based on when he joined them.  If that was the case I doubt they'd announce it so early.  If they are going to launch ealier than that I'm all for it, but not if it's not ready.  I'd rather they do things right than fast.

 

Also I doubt they'd keep going with a separate "CPU" high performance line on AM4 or whatever.  It seems likely they would merge everything onto the FM platform so at least the motherboards and chipsets would remain the same.  Ultimately that doesn't mean anything in terms of performance, Intel's CPUs have had integrated graphics for years and no one complains about their CPU performance, so I don't have a problem if AMD only release APUs from this point out just because they're APUs.  It's all in the architecture.

 

Fair enough. To clarify, I wouldn't mind an APU version of something like the 6300 or the 8120, just keep the GPU part of the APU under control, like a lot lower performance so it doesn't takes as much space in the dye and they can offer better than just 4 cores on them, while still being serviceable for media playback and indie gaming and such. 

But that doesn't seems to be the direction they're taking, my guess would be that they would just bump up the 7850k in both CPU and GPU parts but neither still being really that competitive outside of very specific uses like steam boxes or media center pcs.

[Kilerbomb]

If the single-threaded performance is still sub-par I will be severely disappointed. Don't let me down, AMD.

[Glenwing]

Fair enough. To clarify, I wouldn't mind an APU version of something like the 6300 or the 8120, just keep the GPU part of the APU under control, like a lot lower performance so it doesn't takes as much space in the dye and they can offer better than just 4 cores on them, while still being serviceable for media playback and indie gaming and such. 

But that doesn't seems to be the direction they're taking, my guess would be that they would just bump up the 7850k in both CPU and GPU parts but neither still being really that competitive outside of very specific uses like steam boxes or media center pcs.

 

I agree.  I think they should do a dual version of a new architecture or something, one with 4 cores and a large GPU, and another version with 6 cores and a small GPU, and they can all work on the same motherboards.  Maybe they could call them Athlon and Phenom III respectively ^.^ But only if they're awesome... :rolleyes:

[kuddlesworth9419]

I wouldn't think that.  I know that they said they were focusing on APU's, but this doesn't look like an APU marketing campaign IMHO.

Neither did the last 3 times when they where hyping something that everyone said was AMD's comeback into the high end CPU market but they were APU's as well.

[Dietrichw]

I'm thinking another black edition APU, My 7850K is a black edition so 8 core APU?? if it is an 8 core APU then I hope it still will use the FM2+ socket and I will have money to upgrade 

[Admiaczking]

if AMD release new CPUs that are significantly better than my FX-8120 i am first going to have to figure out a way to keep from jizzing repeatedly and second of all figure out how i will get the money to buy one.

[Admiaczking]

I'm thinking another black edition APU, My 7850K is a black edition so 8 core APU?? if it is an 8 core APU then I hope it still will use the FM2+ socket and I will have money to upgrade 

you know that the FX-8000 series are not 8-core right? they're quad-core with a similar technology to Intel's HT, but better in multi-threaded applications from what i have heard

[IPCharger]

Half Life 3 confirmed

 

Funny (and sad) thing is a HL3 announcement seems more plausible to me than a competitive CPU from AMD.

[99vw]

Fair enough. To clarify, I wouldn't mind an APU version of something like the 6300 or the 8120, just keep the GPU part of the APU under control, like a lot lower performance so it doesn't takes as much space in the dye and they can offer better than just 4 cores on them, while still being serviceable for media playback and indie gaming and such. 

But that doesn't seems to be the direction they're taking, my guess would be that they would just bump up the 7850k in both CPU and GPU parts but neither still being really that competitive outside of very specific uses like steam boxes or media center pcs.

Yes but once ddr4 becomes more standard those APU's will see huge bumps in performance from the extra memory bandwith.