AMD apparently sticking with AM3+ for Steamroller

[Osnaps]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2208525/amd-sticks-with-socket-am3-for-steamroller


Looks like they are gonna stay with am3+ at least through steamroller and if I'm reading it right the same with fm2. After that, with what I'm guessing will be excavator, they are gonna go towards one socket to rule them all.

 

[RGone]

We don't even have a PileDriver forsale yet. Just pre-release stuff. No telling what AMD will do before we get 'steamroller'. It is nice to have the rumor that AM3+ is it for 'steamroller', but I will worry about that in a year most likely when the 'steamroller' actually gets close.

 

[Osnaps]

I can agree with that. Im anxious for some PD benches and reviews and have seen some speculation that amd was considering fm2 after PD was released. Just wanted to share

 

[bassnut]

You and a whole bunch of others as well.

 

[ssjwizard]

Honestly at BD launch AMD were saying new socket time for PD even. I highly doubt that they will ride this platform past PD. IMO the PD releasing on AM3+ is an effort by AMD to win back any supporters they lost over the "Faildozer" response to the current gen FX. I highly doubt that steamroller will ever touch the AM3+ platform unless its a chopped down backwards compatible design just to keep the AM3+ peoples happy, even at that I think its unlikely.


Note. I dont believe that BD architecture is a failure, in fact Im glad to see that they finally changed things up a bit, unfortunately they had to take a minor backstep in IPC to get it out the door. PD "should" fix that though.

 

[Zerix01]

Ok so logical question here. Is there a reason to move from AM3+ at the moment? Is there reason to believe that Piledriver will be IO bound with this socket and bus? Granted we will be seeing a 10 core CPU in PD, more cores means more bandwidth but most of the added connections are internal to the CPU and given the IMC, where would new bottlenecks form?