What AMD CPU?

[L_I_N_U_S]

Hello,

 

I am looking for a AMD CPU that is in the price range of 250-300 USD.

So it should be a equivalent of the i5-6600k.

 

thanks

[jcw150]

it won't be equivalent to the i5-6600k.

[Indus Monk]

Please for god's sake... don't buy any AMD CPU now! just get a i5/i7 and be done with it...

[Morgan MLGman]

None can match the 6600k in gaming

[ZetZet]

There is no AMD CPU that is the equivalent of 6600K.

[Kobrastachka]

Only buy amd for things like a cheep streaming pc or productivity, dont buy them for a $300 get a i7 or i5.

[typographie]

I am looking for a AMD CPU that is in the price range of 250-300 USD.

So it should be a equivalent of the i5-6600k.

 

I don't think AMD even sells a CPU for $300 right now. The most expensive consumer CPU they sell in the U.S. is the FX-9590 for $240, and despite abhorrent power efficiency it's closer to an i3 in most games, not an i5.

[Naeaes]

Oh, brother. Price-range won't make it equal. And given that you're shooting for a brand-spanking-new top-tier CPU from the market leader manufacturer, pretty much nothing will. 

 

See here. The most powerful and most expensive CPU from AMD would fit your price-range neatly and lose like nobody's business to the 6600K. 

[Guest]

If you really want AMD cpu, wait for Zen. In the meantime, if you DONT have cpu, just get i3 6100 and cheapest mobo that it fits your needs and a nice set of DDR4 ram so you can use it for zen.

[KemoKa]

Hello,

 

I am looking for a AMD CPU that is in the price range of 250-300 USD.

So it should be a equivalent of the i5-6600k.

 

thanks

Don't thank us. We can't fulfill your request. Can't be done. Sorry.

 

There is no CPU made by AMD on the market that can even come close to touching the performance of a 6600K. Not a single one. And that's no-one's fault but theirs. AMD should have learned their lesson all the way back in 2011, that putting a gimped server platform on the consumer market is a bad business plan. Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture came along (four generations before Skylake and actually released 10 months before Bulldozer, mind you), absolutely beat the tar out of their flagship part, has continued to pummel all of AMD's subsequent flagships, and AMD has never recovered since. Even their 5GHz, 220W behemoth FX-9590 toils far behind a 3.2GHz i5-4460 in games. Hell, the i3-6100 came out just recently and it WINS IN BENCHMARKS.

If you're so hell-bent on an AMD platform, wait patiently until Zen comes out next year (or until they delay it again), but be warned - that architecture has only been slated to compete with Haswell, which has already been outdated by Skylake. Kaby Lake comes sometime this year.

[Sir Asvald]

Hello,

 

I am looking for a AMD CPU that is in the price range of 250-300 USD.

So it should be a equivalent of the i5-6600k.

 

thanks

No such AMD that is same to i5 6600k. AMD CPU's. The *FX-6300 is more equal to an i3* than to an i5 or i7

 

The last time AMD mad a CPU was back in 2011-2012. (the FX Series)

 

* I might be wrong, not sure correct me please

[ShaunC]

Hello,

 

I am looking for a AMD CPU that is in the price range of 250-300 USD.

So it should be a equivalent of the i5-6600k.

 

thanks

You will not be able to find an AMD cpu that is the equivalent.  I'm assuming you probably have an AMD motherboard already, if you do i would go with a 6 or 8 core AMD, and a watercooling unit and just overclock the bajesus out of it until you have enough to do a full mobo + cpu + ram (ddr4) swap to intel.  For $300 you could buy a mobo (MSI Z170-A pro $80 on newegg), cpu (i3-6100 $130 on newegg) and ram (16gb ddr4 $68 on newegg) and call it pwnerage compared to any AMD CPU

Links:

Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231888&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=IGNEFL012816&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL012816-_-EMC-012816-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20231888-S0D

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=2MN-0004-00002&cm_re=i3_6100-_-2MN-0004-00002-_-Product

MOBO: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130892&cm_re=msi_z170-_-13-130-892-_-Product

[Prysin]

Don't thank us. We can't fulfill your request. Can't be done. Sorry.

 

There is no CPU made by AMD on the market that can even come close to touching the performance of a 6600K. Not a single one. And that's no-one's fault but theirs. AMD should have learned their lesson all the way back in 2011, that putting a gimped server platform on the consumer market is a bad business plan. Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture (four generations before Skylake, mind you) came along and absolutely beat the tar out of their FX-8350 flagship, and AMD has never recovered since. Even their 5GHz, 220W behemoth FX-9590 toils far behind a 3.2GHz i5-4460 in games. Hell, the i3-6100 came out just recently and it WINS IN BENCHMARKS.

If you're so hell-bent on an AMD platform, wait patiently until Zen comes out next year (or until they delay it again), but be warned - that architecture has only been slated to compete with Haswell, which has already been outdated by Skylake. Kaby Lake comes sometime this year.

8350 didnt exist back when Sandy released. It released slightly after.

8150 was the flagship of the time.

 

 

Sandy Bridge is the codename for a microarchitecture developed by Intel beginning in 2005 for central processing units in computers to replace the Nehalem microarchitecture. Intel demonstrated a Sandy Bridge processor in 2009, and released first products based on the architecture in January 2011 under the Core brand.^[1][2] Developed primarily by the Israeli branch of Intel, the codename was originally "Gesher" (meaning "bridge" in Hebrew).^[3]

 

 

The AMD Bulldozer Family 15h is a microprocessor microarchitecture developed by AMD for the desktop and server markets.^[1] Bulldozer is the codename for this family of microarchitectures. It was released on October 12, 2011 as the successor to the K10 microarchitecture.

 

 

AMD Piledriver Family 15h is a microarchitecture developed by AMD as the second-generation successor to Bulldozer. It targets desktop, mobile and server markets.

The changes over Bulldozer are incremental. Piledriver uses the same "module" design. Its main improvements are to branch prediction and FPU/integer scheduling, along with a switch to hard-edge flip-flops to improve power consumption. This resulted in clock speed gains of 8–10% and a performance increase of around 15% with similar power characteristics.^[1] FX-9590 is around 30–35% faster than Bulldozer-based FX-8150, mostly because of higher clock speed.

Products based on Piledriver were first released on 15 May 2012 with the AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), code-named Trinity, series of mobile products.^[2] APUs aimed at desktops followed in early October 2012 with Piledriver-based FX-series CPUs released later in the month.^[3][4]Opteron server processors based upon Piledriver were announced in early December 2012.^[5]

[KemoKa]

8350 didnt exist back when Sandy released. It released slightly after.

8150 was the flagship of the time.

That's true. Whoops. But come on, it was the same architecture with some very minor tweaks. The 8350 offered little to no performance increase because most of it came from stock speeds and slightly better scheduling on an already-unfit-for-purpose architecture.

If anything, my error was made in favor of AMD, because I implied that SB came afterwards. But now I look at it, that just makes it all the more sad, that the FX series of processors were beaten to a pulp a whole 10 months before they were released.

 

And it doesn't matter in the end anyway, because AMD chips have for the past 4 years been stagnant. Intel leads the way, whilst AMD's x86 processors sort of wallow in terribleness.

[NumLock21]

Currently there are no AMD cpus that's equivalent to the performance of a Intel Core i5 6600K. Get a Intel cpu.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Hello,

 

I am looking for a AMD CPU that is in the price range of 250-300 USD.

So it should be a equivalent of the i5-6600k.

 

thanks

The best AMD has to offer for your money at the moment is the FX-8320/8350 you can overclock them to around 4.4ghz to 4.6ghz depending on your luck and skills but you need a GOOD motherboard with GOOD VRM and lots of powerphase (AKA expensive motherboard) and then once it's fully overclocked you can hope to match an i5-2400 in a few games, ...even an haswell core i3-4160 will give an overclocked AMD FX a run for it's money in games.

 

Amd has nothing anywhere near the performance of a modern intel quad-core CPU regardless if it's ivy-bridge, haswell or skylake all those processors are much faster than the AMD FX.

[Caleb1998]

Hello,

I am looking for a AMD CPU that is in the price range of 250-300 USD.

So it should be a equivalent of the i5-6600k.

thanks

Wait for zen or get Intel PERIOD, don't get a AMD chip right now.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Wait for zen or get Intel PERIOD, don't get a AMD chip right now.

well the athlon 860K is a great little budget quad-core for an HTPC or a steam box or something though

but yeah if you spend anything more than 100$ on a CPU, go with intel

[Darkseth]

The FX 9590, that horrible retarded 220w Failure of a Processor, is a match for an i5 2500~ around that. By the Cost of needing an 100$+ Cooler, which will still be hotter and louder than the i5 with a 20€$ Cooler, and also consuming 2-3 times the Power.

 

Go up to skylake, and it will Destroy any AMD CPU there is right now. And even the i5 6400 should be by Far better than any AMD toy.

 

 

Try again when Zen comes out