#4489447

vbetts

Moderator

2012-12-29 15:18

And I just bought my 5800k! I do like the idea of only paying around $120 or so to upgrade both the CPU and gpu.

#4489587

deltatux

2012-12-29 19:14

I'm guessing the Richland APU is based on the Steamroller microarchitecture? Any details on those? deltatux

#4489683

mohiuddin

2012-12-29 21:17

^same question.

#4489809

randomizer

2012-12-30 00:38

That means 6300k as well!! Just brought and built an AMD system on Thursday with 5300k!!

#4490515

IPlayNaked

2012-12-31 05:00

I'm guessing the Richland APU is based on the Steamroller microarchitecture? Any details on those? deltatux

I see conflicting reports if it will be based on steamroller or piledriver. http://www.xbitlabs.com/cms/include/image.php?src=/images/news/2012-11/amd_roadmap_desktop.png&width=550&height=304&cache=1&quality=88&aspect=0&format= That roadmap says piledriver

#4490518

sykozis

2012-12-31 05:14

I'm hoping they've gotten the power consumption down and the performance up.... Would like to see something at least on par with the Sandy Bridge i5's this go round.

#4490963

IPlayNaked

2012-12-31 21:03

I'm hoping they've gotten the power consumption down and the performance up.... Would like to see something at least on par with the Sandy Bridge i5's this go round.

Won't happen. You need, what, for the top end parts you need something like a 25-30% reduction in power consumption under load to match or beat i5 sandy. I can't see them managing that, especially considering they've pretty much accepted that part of their performance increase is going to come from pushing clock speed as high as possible.

#4490966

vbetts

Moderator

2012-12-31 21:07

I'm hoping they've gotten the power consumption down and the performance up.... Would like to see something at least on par with the Sandy Bridge i5's this go round.

Intel's sub $100 cpus don't match the Sandy Bridge i5's, not sure why this would. GPU wise the 5800k already beats it in that sense.

#4491081

Ryrynz

2013-01-01 01:20

Why even bother with these? As much as I used to swear I'd never go Intel I changed over years ago, they have vastly better processors. The only reason you'd really want to choose anything here is for the integrated GPU I guess. I can't see myself ever choosing an AMD CPU again (the last one I had was a K6-2) they've lost it. 100W? An 84W Haswell will mop the floor with it in probably ever area but gaming, watch and see.

#4491102

sykozis

2013-01-01 02:27

Intel's sub $100 cpus don't match the Sandy Bridge i5's, not sure why this would. GPU wise the 5800k already beats it in that sense.

I wouldn't even expect a Celeron or "Pentium" to match a Lynnfield i5....at least not for another couple generations. However, if A10-6800K is based on Piledriver....and it meets the previous performance expectations(doubtful)....it should be pretty close to an i5 2310. The A10-5800K is already pretty close in performance to an i3 2100...so wouldn't really take a whole lot to catch up to the i5 2310.