AM4 replacing FM2?

[Frankieanime158]

From what I've seen, the next gen APUs, as well as Zen will all be on the AM4 socket, right?

So that means they're going to kill the FM2+ without a successor?

I have an AM3+, so it doesn't really matter to me. But if I had to ability to pick up an A10 and throw it in my setup

for testing purposes, I definitely would. So if that's how it is, upgrading to Zen (for me) seems a lot more plausible.

[TrigrH]

AM4 should be replacing everything

 

[airdeano]

yes, AM3+ is a dead socket, as well as the FM2+

the newest architecture will be on AM4 (using 3 chipsets) looks like nov/dec release with system builders on the lower chipset platforms and the consumer jan/feb 2017 (being APU releases).

[Darel321]

yes am4 is gonna be the only socket for amd now

[Frankieanime158]

Okay awesome, thanks guys [: was hard to word this when when looking up on Google, so I figured I'd just ask the community

[ivan134]

AM4 will be used for both Zen CPUs and APUs. It's better to have one unifying socket than the fractured mess they have now.

[it_dont_work]

I'm kind of in the same boat in that regard, I'm running an fx-6100 (albeit at 4.4ghz right now) and looking for an upgrade, it'll cost more than makes sense to stay on am3+, skylake runs rings around my current setup and as a core upgrade costs about the same.

 

Really at this stage upgrading or side stepping between am3 and fm2 is a waste of money

 

AM4 is going to be a unified platform, apu/cpu same boards and socket for the zen based gear. So I'm more thinking now may as well wait for zen and see of cost/performance wise an 8core/16thread zen chip stacks up to an i7 6700k.

 

At this stage I'm almost sure even 530 graphics on the i7 will out perform my hd 6970 gpu.

[MVPernula]

26 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

AM4 should be replacing everything

 

[Nena Trinity]

51 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

AM4 will be used for both Zen CPUs and APUs. It's better to have one unifying socket than the fractured mess they have now.

I heard Intel plans to do the same...

[airdeano]

intel to do what?

they have the consumer line i3/i5/i7 and the enthusiasts i7-e and for commercial e3 (1151) e5 (2011-3)

two socket types isn't really a mess..

amd is doing it to update their pin count from 906 (fm2+) 942 (am3+) to 1331 (ddr4, pcie lane distribution, and pcie socket).