I really like the Socket FM2 platform. It's has quite a lot of features and all three chipsets are reasonably up to date. With that in mind, I think it would be great if AMD made an FX line of APUs for FM2. This would cover the folks who care more about processing power as well as those who are going to use a discrete graphics card.
AFX-4390
AFX-6390
AFX-8390
And here's an odd-ball suggestion - For the folks who want more graphics performance on lightly threaded games. Give it a $79 retail price and it would be the best deal in the low budget, "casual gaming" market.
AFX-3390
AFX-4390
■ 4GHz - 4.4GHz
■ 4 Cores (2 Piledriver modules)
■ 8MB L3 Cache
■ 80 Shader Cores
■ 95W
AFX-6390
■ 3.6GHz - 4GHz
■ 6 Cores (3 Piledriver modules)
■ 8MB L3 Cache
■ 80 Shader Cores
■ 125W
AFX-8390
■ 3.6GHz - 3.8GHz
■ 8 Cores (4 Piledriver modules)
■ 8MB L3 Cache
■ 80 Shader Cores
■ 125W
And here's an odd-ball suggestion - For the folks who want more graphics performance on lightly threaded games. Give it a $79 retail price and it would be the best deal in the low budget, "casual gaming" market.
AFX-3390
■ 4.3GHz - 4.6GHz
■ 2 Cores (1 Piledriver module)
■ 2MB L3 Cache
■ 896 Shader Cores
■ 125W