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New AMD chipset???

No one knows. If there is a new chipset, the earliest it most likely will happen is when Steamroller for AM3+ launches in early 2014.
 
I just recently purchased an AMD 990 chipset platform. I hope they continue to make the AMD CPU sockets future proof like they have been doing with AM2+/AM3/AM3+. It is really nice to keep most of your old stuff and upgrade to a stronger platform. AMD motherboards will be around for awhile.
 
Nobody knows. And there is no news related to new chipset release. No leaks, nothing.
 
Nobified[H];1039776332 said:
I just recently purchased an AMD 990 chipset platform. I hope they continue to make the AMD CPU sockets future proof like they have been doing with AM2+/AM3/AM3+. It is really nice to keep most of your old stuff and upgrade to a stronger platform. AMD motherboards will be around for awhile.
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They need to get away from AM3+, and break all backwards compatibility. The backwards compatibility thing is really holding them back.
 
By the way, the only announced chipset is the 1000-series-- 1070 and 1090 chipset. That was announced from last year. Unfortunately, that's nothing more than a 900-series sidegrade still with PCI-e 2.0.

Steamroller is supposedly going to have PCI-e 3.0. But, at the moment, it's very speculative that will have a new socket and an entirely new chipset to get PCI-e 3.0.

As I and others said in another thread in the AMD forum, the current way PCI-e 2.0 works for AMD processors (non-Trinity) is that each AMD [FX] processor communicates with the chipset (800/900-series) via HyperTransport 3.0. That chipset provides PCI-e 2.0.

Current Trinity (and Richland) APUs have on-die PCI-e 2.0 controllers and no HyperTransport. What's holding back AMD processors is the backwards compatibility as Tsumi said by relying on HyperTransport as the external I/O communication which is a maximum of 51.2 GB/s bidirectional speed. That HyperTransport external I/O allows backwards compatibility but is preventing any forward upgrade path for AMD.

In order to get PCI-e 3.0 in the next platform, AMD needs to add a PCI-e 3.0 controller on-die for Steamroller and beyond OR upgrade to HyperTransport 4.0 which has never been announced. Either way they do it is going to require a new chipset AND a new socket.
 
Sounds rather silly you want a desktop chip which has over 140 Watt for the socket on a M-ATX/ITX bases, while FM2 does have some better features and a newer chipset and lower power.
 
Pieter3dnow said:
Sounds rather silly you want a desktop chip which has over 140 Watt for the socket on a M-ATX/ITX bases, while FM2 does have some better features and a newer chipset and lower power.
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Yeah but 8 cores in a smaller package just sounds like fun, something different. Plus you can get intel 2011 matx boards same watts for the socket, just gives us more of a variety :cool:
 
Pieter3dnow said:
Sounds rather silly you want a desktop chip which has over 140 Watt for the socket on a M-ATX/ITX bases, while FM2 does have some better features and a newer chipset and lower power.
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with water cooling or a low-profile heatsink(with large diameter fan), 140w is no problem
 
Tsumi said:
They need to get away from AM3+, and break all backwards compatibility. The backwards compatibility thing is really holding them back.
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Proof of this? Not arguing against the statement, as I can see it being an issue, but with no real proof that backwards capability holding them back, it's just a hypothesis. Which doesn't make it true. ;)
 
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