AMD Vishera FX-series CPU gets pricetag

Processor 721 Published 2012-09-22 07:37 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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#4415495

heffeque

2012-09-22 15:53

Let's see what the price/performance is like. Hope AMD got this one right.

#4415568

Kohlendioxidus

2012-09-22 17:30

Let's see what the price/performance is like. Hope AMD got this one right.

agree. If will exceed my X6 @ 3,9 GHz then I'm sold.

#4415572

Neo Cyrus

2012-09-22 17:38

$250+... ridiculous. AMD really aren't aiming for competitive prices. They're hoping big numbers sell. Most people don't know clock speed and number of cores don't mean squat.

#4415579

vbetts

Moderator

2012-09-22 17:49

I'm just hoping that the price reflects the actual performance in a good way. Time to upgrade my machine!

#4415821

sykozis

2012-09-23 02:05

$250+... ridiculous. AMD really aren't aiming for competitive prices. They're hoping big numbers sell. Most people don't know clock speed and number of cores don't mean squat.

Or, maybe AMD is trying to cover the cost of R&D, production, shipping, etc.....

#4415830

sykozis

2012-09-23 02:23

regardless of performance, AMD has to cover costs and make a profit....

#4415836

sykozis

2012-09-23 02:29

You guys are trying to gauge the price by the expected performance....but the performance makes little difference to the price. Even if they perform closer to the Athlon64 X2 5600....AMD still has to cover their expenses. Can't sell at a loss just because the performance sucks.

#4415898

lucidus

2012-09-23 04:36

You guys are trying to gauge the price by the expected performance....but the performance makes little difference to the price. Even if they perform closer to the Athlon64 X2 5600....AMD still has to cover their expenses. Can't sell at a loss just because the performance sucks.

Could we please leave cost accounting 101 from this?

#4416058

H83

2012-09-23 12:33

You guys are trying to gauge the price by the expected performance....but the performance makes little difference to the price. Even if they perform closer to the Athlon64 X2 5600....AMD still has to cover their expenses. Can't sell at a loss just because the performance sucks.

Actually the performance makes most if not all of the difference. People don´t give a crap about the expenses a company has to incur to make their products. People only care about the features, performance and price of the products a company offers. So if the performance is weak AMD will just have to sell their CPUs at a loss or leave them on the shelves gaining dust... I just hope they make competitive CPUs this time because Intel really needs some competition although i have to agree with the other opinions saying that the CPUs seem expensive, just like when Bulldozer CPUs were released...

#4416093

Ryu5uzaku

2012-09-23 13:55

tbh if that 250$ performs inbetween i5 and i7 ivy np the price is nice 😯

#4416971

GhostXL

2012-09-24 18:23

I like my Bulldozer. Never had a problem.

That is all that matters imo.

#4417254

DSparil

2012-09-25 03:49

Zambezi needs a 250-300 MHz boost over Vishera to beat it. 4.5 GHz Vishera = 4.8 GHz Zambezi

I'm not so sure about that. Either way, I have a feeling that even with Piledrivers improvements, it can be matched with a nicely overclocked Bulldozer. I am guessing overall performance boost may be around 8% (from what i'm reading) with Piledriver. So given that, I can pick up an inexpensive Cooler Master Hyper 12 and overclock my 6100 to 4.3 ghz or higher. Thats the theory anyway

#4417291

tsunami231

2012-09-25 06:31

as much as i hate AMD I would like to see them actual release something that can compete with intel cpu's which would drive prices down.