And AMD-ATi continues to roll in the design wins...Good to see. Now, if the company can just get its x86 cpu designs back on track...(Although the company's 3-4 year old Vishera 6-8 core cpus compete very nicely with Intel's current i5 lineup, imo.) AMD needs to retake the high end, or at least get to general parity there...

AMD wake up !!! I agree. Amd must go with more cores if wanna stay at least close to intel. I never like intel,but in this time is much faster clock per clock for amd. Amd bring as 16 or 32 core cpu without stupid apu!!! Clear cpu with at least 16 cores, and 16mb cashe.....

I wonder how automatic "Tile Based Rendering" will be under DX12. I still hope more for 1024~1280 SP APU SoC which would just replace entire system. You know, entire PC at size of graphics card + bit of space for PSU/HDD. Great for notebooks. AMD has ability to turn this into reality.

16 or 32 core CPU is a bit wishful, and least for now. Wait for ZEN 🙂, that is expected to have up to 8 full cores. A new feature of DirectX 12 (and OpenGL Vulkan too I believe), is the ability to share workloads across different GPU's, not just those in SLI or Crossfire. What this means is, even if you did have and APU and a GTX 1080 (or whatever Nvidia's next high end CPU will be called), you will still get higher frame rates than the same APU and graphics card but with the onboard graphics disabled. Additionally, AMD is said to have been working on distributing this workload even better between and AMD APU and a discrete AMD card. When AMD Zen comes out, the APU is expected to benefit from possibly having on-die HBM memory, although this is more likely come later on. Basically, under Windwows 10, a top of the range 8 full core APU with onboard graphics would be a very attractive preposition, if it isn't overly expensive, even if the physical die size is a bit larger than today's APU's. That will only be known when the dimensions of the FM3 socket is confirmed.

Sure. But will se on dx 12 it will be true performance benefit that all talking about or will be yust another brick in the wall..... I meen ,playstation 3 push games smothly and pc of that time monster* class berly playable that in this time shows errors and i quess somone politics about selling expensive hardvare to naive richboys.....They manage to do that but that is robery.... I dont know when win 10 will arrive - that will bring us a litlle light in that dark wich we need it to stay compare to modern consoles..... Anyway,time will tell... Win 10 and dx12 .....that s golden spot....?

And i hope to dx12 will be full compatibile with others....10,9,8..... Because,some relly good games dont work on my win 7 and are realy great.... For examle, Disney s pure* only run on xp, there s no chance to run on newer sistems....shame....i realy liked that quadmotors ATV race game...

When is Zen arhicteture will come? And famous fm3 ??