AMD CPUs naming scheme...help

[dionis.bajrami]

Hi everyone

I've recently became more interested on AMD CPUs but its all confusing FX, Athlon (I,II,X2,X4) Sempron, Operton... Can someone briefly explain how do these stack up in performance, and possibly compare to the Intel ones ( no prob with their names) ...

P.s. Also all the codenames some like godavari and carizo couldn't find them in Wikipedia

[aamirilliyas123]

@spwath

[Guest MinimalEffort]

FX is high end

Athlon is low end

 

All you really need to know these days

[niofalpha]

A (6,8,10 higher is better) Series are APU's strong intergrated graphics.

FX Series are their current flagship, the first number is the number of "Cores" , followed by the number indicating the refresh. I.e. 8350 would be an 8 Core Vishera CPU while an 6000 would be a 6 core Zambazei CPU.

Execption is a 9590 which is stupid and shouldn't exist.

Athlon's are older CPU's I think they have better Single Core performance than the FX series.

 

 

The APU's USED to beat Intel CPU's in intergrated graphics, but the Iris Pro graphics on new Intel CPU's beat APUs.

The FX Series loses to any modern Intel processor in 90% of games. In editing tasks, the high end 8350 loses to a 4440 most of the time iirc.

[Gas_Mask_]

FX is their enthusiast grade cpu, operton is their server cpu, phenom is their consumer cpu (with l3 cache), athlon is a cut down version of phenom (without l3 cache), and sempron is the bare minimum cpu (I would use one in a htpc).

[dionis.bajrami]

Thanks everyone....really helped...but id also wouldnt mind the APU codenames..thanks

[spwath]

For gaming to just need to worry about fx

First didget dictates amount of cores, rest mean speed