Plenty people bought FX due to simple needs

the bad AMD Bulldozer cores

Where I live RX 480 is being sold for the same as GTX 1060

I mean its 5 years later and they are still kind of relevant, a pretty good purchase if you made it back then in my opinion

So it's already decided what I'll buy

@Christian Ly indeed

Piledriver at least managed to beat out the 1100t, barely. They should have just slapped 2 phenom x4's onto a single dye. Fuck. Steamroller is actually pretty acceptable, too bad they didn't put it into their fz lineup.

Video editing? They will do the job with great value

Anything that actually takes advantage of all 8 cores runs pretty damn well for what you pay.

Just like the apus are surprisingly relevant in anything using opencl.

I remember my friend wanted to generate Diffie Hellmandii keys and it was on AMD Operton

Horrible, spent over 1 hour wasn't done, so I pushed it to my Xeon E3/E5 1-core instead, took about 5 minutes?

I guess it's like Intels Celeron CPUs, pretty bad

OpenSSL was running in 1-core mode, not sure but you could probably set it to more cores?

I am home my dudes

It's no secret that amds single threading capabilities are severely limited.

But until you get to i7s and xeons. You can typically get better performance for the same price (or less) by going with amd. Just the heat man.

However, for my HTPC, I am looking forwards to when AMD releases a new APU in 2017 which uses Zen+Polaris?

Might be a longer wait than that. The newest apus will still be excavator from what I understood. And I'm sure Microsoft will pay out the ass for exclusivity to the scropio apu.

Yeah I must admit that, price/performance was the reason gamers bought cheap AMDs

I think they'll have p11 chips though.

ok 2018?

its actually no problem, I'm not moving to a place where I can have a HTPC before this time next year

Ah yeah

Haha, you could build a little am1 platform. Get the Asus mobo and you can over clock. Seen a lot of videos of people running games on it with low end dedicated gpus.

I can, however, understand if AMD wants to give Microsoft a sweet APU (and Playstation?) while skipping out with desktop for later

Since they are making them probably an important income

And pushing these APUs to desktops might be bad for consoles?

Or well the APU users are a minority to care about

The ps4k is still running cat cores. They just gave it a higher clock. The Scorpio is going to run full zen / Polaris.

My previous HTPC is in fact my old laptop, recycled, but I want a proper one later. Besides, it's at the brink of dying.

Yeah, that's the APU that would be nice to have.

Just the fact Microsoft wrote >6 TFLOPs

If Microsoft is to be believed, it'll be a Polaris 10 chip, since they were boasting 6 tflops. Zen supposedly has on board hbm controllers as well.

Make me think that there might come ot some killer APUs yeah

I wonder, will console gaming finally be a thing?

With this they must surely manage to handle 1080p60fps

They've had ddr4 controllers since the merlin development kit which was.. Steamroller firepro.

They'd have to be able to handle 1080p60fps if the performance is where they claim. Low level api combined with async compute.

Has anyone done any actual memory bandwidth tests on Polaris? I know I'd seen some figures showing that the 290x wasn't able to fully saturate it's bus despite not even having memory compression.

I suppose I should get back to work though. Break ended a while ago.