Report: AMD FX-9590 Last Breed of AMD FX CPU?
A rumor is circling around the web, saying that the FX-9590 CPU from AMD might be the last of the FX-series CPUs.
A report from VR-Zone says something grim: The FX-9590 might be the last FX-series CPU that AMD has planned, possibly indicating that the FX-series CPUs is at the end of the line.
On the other hand, the report doesn't carry any images of roadmaps that indicate this, so it might be a false statement. That said, considering that the 5.0 GHz FX-9590 CPU didn't perform particularly spectacularly against its competitors, it shouldn't be too surprising that AMD might be shifting its focus elsewhere.
When we contacted AMD to verify the validity of the rumor, all we got back was a pretty standard "no comment" on products beyond the current public roadmap. For now, this one is staying on rumor territory.
I give credit to AMD for an interesting approach in the architecture and it is getting better. Price/Performance is pretty good for the most part. The top end is still all Intel.
I think that moving away from the FX moniker is a good idea as the shadow of unmet performance for what was hyped from BD is likely hurting sales and still influencing some peoples advise. Plus, they need a better CPU naming scheme. It works for GPUs but the CPU scheme filled up fast.
Remember "The Future is Fusion"
There have been rumours for a while that AMD would limit all desktop CPUs to APUs and dispense with the FX family, though I'm more inclined to believe they'd just change the naming convention for now. Still, there aren't any plans for a replacement socket for AM3+ as far as I know.
I remember everyone whining about Celeron name going away (it didn't), or Pentium, or ATI, or whatever.
It's a friggin name. Who cares?
AMD can't make a gaming processor anyway, so maybe they decided the FX name was for gaming, which they know they can't really do from the CPU end, and may want something to focus more on what it can do.
Or maybe they will continue to make them, but it wasn't on a particular piece of paper.
The reality is, it doesn't matter. Show me someone who bought an FX-8350 for gaming, and I'll show you an idiot. Intel destroys AMD in gaming. Not close. It's embarrassing.
Some apps AMD does OK in, and maybe they'll try to find a better way of conveying it. FX probably has an association as gaming processor, and one for the kiddies, and this dog won't hunt there.
The one thing is, if they're releasing these 9590 processors, which clearly suck and aren't useful at much, they'll continue releasing flagship products that aren't particularly useful, but do represent the best performance they can get.
Maybe they'll call it FX, maybe they won't. It just doesn't matter.
There will be...called Opterons
OTOH if you're talking about that obviously fake rumor then no, that doesn't exist.
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AMD 8 Core and Radeon, that says it all really.
AMD don't have production capasity to make everything so at this moment the Jaguar is the main tool (PS4 and Xbox One + mobile devices) and Kaveri may be the second. And after that we may see steam roller in pure CPU format, much much later. So this may indicate that there will no be new FX prosessors for a while and that is in par with what we have seen and hear before.
There won't be, Chris A. said he didn't see a point to it (overpriced, sparse availability, high power consumption, not much improvement in performance, etc.). Afaik even other major sites like Tech Report or AnandTech haven't reviewed them. I did read one review that was hardly favourable.
AMD 8 Core and Radeon, that says it all really.
You do realise that all 8 cores are unlikely to be used for the game? You should also remember that Jaguar isn't based on Bulldozer/Piledriver, but on Bobcat. So whatever runs well on 4 Jaguar cores would run far better on Intel's stuff, and maybe even AMD's bigger cores.
Kaveri's delay is confirmed. I've heard this from AMD first hand. Further talk in western media has pretty much confirmed this too. 2H 2014.
AMD don't have production capasity to make everything so at this moment the Jaguar is the main tool (PS4 and Xbox One + mobile devices) and Kaveri may be the second. And after that we may see steam roller in pure CPU format, much much later. So this may indicate that there will no be new FX prosessors for a while and that is in par with what we have seen and hear before.
I agree. Though i haven't seen any roadmaps talking about any future FX processor...things seem to indicate Kaveri will be the way forward from next year onwards. I hope i'm wrong, and we get the FX-10350 or whatever.