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Theguynamedty

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Whats the difference between AM and FM series sockets?

What are the lower middle and high end naming schemes of these sockets?

Do non APU cpus not have mobo video output?

What is FX series?

A what ever A8 A10?

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AM are sockets for AMD's CPU product. Basically every AM2 and AM3 CPUs are compatible to one big socket platform. The only segregation came as features that gets enabled or disabled.

The FM1/FM2 sockets are for APUs only. The FM1 for every APU prior to Richland architecture. FM2 is for the latest gen APU. Price segmentation basically about the same as AM sockets.

Every AM board carries 3 digit numbers. Number 9 on 1st digit signifies higher feature and 7 will be the lowest and bare necessities. For FM boards, also about the same story.

Every FM board are mandated to include some video output, meaning it must have dGPU enabled.

FX series is the latest CPU series for AM boards.

APU price segmentation dictated by its numerator...
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rush21hit

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AM are sockets for AMD's CPU product. Basically every AM2 and AM3 CPUs are compatible to one big socket platform. The only segregation came as features that gets enabled or disabled.

The FM1/FM2 sockets are for APUs only. The FM1 for every APU prior to Richland architecture. FM2 is for the latest gen APU. Price segmentation basically about the same as AM sockets.

Every AM board carries 3 digit numbers. Number 9 on 1st digit signifies higher feature and 7 will be the lowest and bare necessities. For FM boards, also about the same story.

Every FM board are mandated to include some video output, meaning it must have dGPU enabled.

FX series is the latest CPU series for AM boards.

APU price segmentation dictated by its numerator. Started with an 'A'. The higher the number, the more powerful the GPU/CPU included will gets.
 
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Crixilian

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FX series could be said as AMD powerful CPU
mostly or even all desktop FX CPU has no integrated GPU

FX-4xxx = 4 CPU cores
FX-6xxx = 6 CPU cores
FX-8xxx and FX-9xxx = 8 CPU cores

A-series is AMD CPU with integrated GPU

A4 = 2 CPU cores + 2 GPU cores
A6 = 2 CPU cores + 4 GPU cores
A8 = 4 CPU cores + 4 GPU cores
A10 = 4 CPU cores + 6 GPU cores

but some latest A10 has 4 CPU cores and 8 GPU cores like A10-7890K
 
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