Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted June 20, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 http://www.fudzilla.com/news/notebooks/37399-new-amd-zen-x86-apu-can-has-16-cores This dude claims they'll be $150!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted June 20, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 If they are indeed $150 then that means it ain't much competition for Intel CPU's. I like lower prices, but pricing often reflects the capability of the product, relative to the competition. Premium performance = premium price. Moderate Performance = Moderate price. If Intel is charging $1k for it's top CPU and AMD blows it away, they'd be stupid not to price it closer to Intel's top chip. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted June 20, 2015 Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 AMD Zen = $150 Mother that support the new socket = $x.000.000.000.000.000 ?? ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Aleksey Posted June 20, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 x86? huh? i dont understand.. so they are 32bit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted June 20, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 x86? huh? i dont understand.. so they are 32bit? No...I think that is just a general way of referring to PC/Windows platforms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted June 20, 2015 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) x86? huh? i dont understand.. so they are 32bit? hahah i thought that too for a moment. And that $150 price is nonsense. Their top chips are $350. http://www.amazon.ca/AMD-FX-9590-4-70-GHz-Processor/dp/B00GPJFEJC/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1434817999&sr=1-8&keywords=amd+cpu Intel's top Xeon is 18 cores 36 threads and it's over $4000.00 http://www.amazon.com/Xeon-E5-2699-Octadeca-core-Core-Processor/dp/B00PDD1ZX0 I'm going to have to check those 5 signed lottery tickets for a $50 million prize in my wallet, but I'm delaying so I can perpetuate the hope that I've won and can afford a dual socket motherboard with two of those in it... Edited June 20, 2015 by L'Ancien Regime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Contributor ajz3d Posted June 24, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted June 24, 2015 x86? huh? i dont understand.. so they are 32bit? x86 = 32-bit architecture, so yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Aleksey Posted June 25, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 so cinema4d and after effects wont run on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimm Posted June 25, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 I'm pretty sure that x86 only means that it's Intel compatible. Making a 32bit CPU in this day and age would be very strange, given that they can only support 4 GBytes of memory, or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted June 25, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 I'm pretty sure that x86 only means that it's Intel compatible. Making a 32bit CPU in this day and age would be very strange, given that they can only support 4 GBytes of memory, or less. Plus, I'm sure AMD doesn't use the x86 tag in it's naming. It was likely something that individual put on there. It's just another way of identifying PC/Windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor ajz3d Posted June 25, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 Yup, you're guys are right. However in the article they could have used x86-64 or AMD64 term instead of the unfortunate x86. The latter term covers all processors that have instruction sets backwards compatible with Intel's 80x86 line of processors (80286, 80386, Pentium, and later) and includes processors that are 32-bit only. But the term also also includes CPUs with 64-bit instruction sets (x86-64), so I stand corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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