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Thoughts, Rumors, or Specs of AMD fx series steamroller cpu

Guys, are there any plans in the Desktop CPU market after 2015 for AMD? Rory stated that the transformation would be complete by 2015. I am starting to get worried if Rory is axing the desktop market after the last iterations of these CPUs.
 
Intel17 said:
It makes no sense to have separate "high end" CPUs for the desktop. The APUs should be the desktop chips.
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I think that's probably what will happen. If their HSA goals work out on server and desktop, but mainly server, then we might see an all APU AMD.

I'm also more excited about Kaveri than I am about a potential Steamroller desktop chip. Speaking of, has anyone seen an official AMD statement or slide that actually mentions a desktop Steamroller derivative that isn't an APU?
 
pelov said:
If their HSA goals work out on server and desktop, but mainly server, then we might see an all APU AMD.
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How could a weak CPU and a weak iGPU with a difficult programming model possibly compete against homogeneous many-core Intel CPUs with AVX2 and TSX? I just don't see it happening.
 
So far, the main rumor about Steamroller that I'm going by is this line from vr-zone:

...this time there's clear indication that, after Piledriver, there will be substantial changes in both cores and system architecture from Steamroller onwards, that should help make AMD competitive closer to the top.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-to-survive-and-thrive-still-/15564.html
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I'm curious as to what kinds of changes they have in mind. Are they throwing out the 2 cores per module design? Or have they figured out a way to keep it and still increase the performance per core?
 
My predictions is that it will be a very competitive CPU by today's standards. Unfortunately today's standards won't mean much when it becomes available. 🙂
 
BenchPress said:
How could a weak CPU and a weak iGPU with a difficult programming model possibly compete against homogeneous many-core Intel CPUs with AVX2 and TSX? I just don't see it happening.
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Especially given AMDs absolutely terrible track record of working on the software side of the business. I can see Intel or Nvidia pulling this off. But AMD? Sounds like a pipedream.
 
Genx87 said:
Especially given AMDs absolutely terrible track record of working on the software side of the business. I can see Intel or Nvidia pulling this off. But AMD? Sounds like a pipedream.
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it's not just amd,
Microsoft, ARM and Apple are pushing OpenCL or gpu compute...

...even with gpgpu killer avx-2 in the corner, even if amd does use avx-2, they should still push HSA....there is just alot of compute power doing nothing besides gaming...

Btw, OpenCl is getting very good support recently, it's momentum is better than CUDA today IMO...
 
Olikan said:
Btw, OpenCl is getting very good support recently, it's momentum is better than CUDA today IMO...
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So what, OpenCL apps went from 2 to 3? :hmm:

CUDA/OpenCL/DirectCompute will never go much beyond where it is now. CUDA is the most advanced of them and one that has been out for ages now. How many CUDA apps and for what?
 
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Citizen X said:
AMD owns all!
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