but the power requirement must be high at least 140watt...when amd release steamroller??? why amd still stick at piledriver. amd should take advantage for poor performance haswell from intel
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Follow up,
This slide was proven fake by AMD Manager of APU/CPU Product Reviews James Prior.
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AMD Manager of APU/CPU Product Reviews James Prior was quick to negate the slide's legitimacy: "I've never seen that slide before, I don't know where that came from," he told me in our call, and quickly followed-up by stating that "it's not real. FX is not end-of-life." Prior pointed-out that it's rare to ever see more than a year into the future with roadmaps, and that the real AMD roadmap looks like this:
Yet the future of FX lineup is still unknown since the real roadmap shown Vishera will stay throughout 2014.
QUOTE(Thrust @ Dec 7 2013, 01:25 PM)
From the chart, it looks like AMD will continue to use Vishera as their flagship FX line till 2015. No enhancement till then.
Earlier this year AMD announced they will not release a new GPU in 2013 yet a couple of month later they released HD7790 which was a new GPU with an improved architecture and in Q4 they released 7000 series successor, the R9-290s.
Fake or not, the AM3+ is a dead end and its highly unlikely that an 8 core steamroller will ever come out. AMD has slashed headcount twice around last year and so its going to be highly improbable that AMD can continue on the existing AM3+ roadmap.
The 7790 and the r9-290 weren't the 8 series which people were expecting but rebadged 7 series Tahiti era cards. The r9-260 will be one of the first new gcn2 cards.
Yeah I did say that. "Yet the future of FX lineup is still unknown since the real roadmap shown Vishera will stay throughout 2014."
HD7790 and R9-290 is not rebadged. HD7790 is Bonaire and R9-290 series is Hawaii not Tahiti. There's no R9-260, only R7-260 which is a rebadged of HD7790 + TrueAudio chip.