The SR3 looks pretty good for a budget build. An unlocked version would bring a tough fight to the Core i5s.

I know. It's just that I want more bang for buck in the 7 range, especially since I already own an i5, upgrading to a slightly better version of an i5 on AMD's side doesn't sound like a great investment to me, not unless it's a lot cheaper and does a lot more, which is why I'd rather they target the 7's, which would give me a cheaper alternative to an AMD version of an i7.

I do wish AMD would go for the high end a bit more though.

Good thread !

Zen SR3 + overclock is the way to go then.

I expect AMD might actually be equal to say Haswell's-skylake? by now with their cores.

Took them forever to... that Bulldozer part was pure fail.

Im running a low budget gameing pc..... G3258@4ghz (haswell cpu arch, dual core)

For me one of these SR3's would be perfect for my next build, if they still aim to provide the best perf/$.

They lack the money for that.

Hopefully Zen delivers and the market responds well to their new chips, bringing enough money to AMD so that they can spend more on R&D.

I would like to see a Zen based APU around 150watts, where the 100watts where allocated to putting a 480 amd gpu inside it.

Imagine your integrated graphics card on your cpu, is equal to say a nvidia 1060 ?

There are several rumors about AMD's APUs.

One rumor says that there will be an APU with a Zen cores with an 11-core GPU part to the RX 460 at 45-65W. That would be like a PS4 on a single chip.

The other one, talks about a 4 core Zen part with 16 Vega based cores and HBM memory at 95W.

The first one could be, but I don't believe the other.

Actually , i am using my desktop just for PC gaming and emulation, If the CPU cannot run a lot of future emulation like CEMU or PS3 emulation i will use Intel for the time being. I dont care if it 8 or 16 core. If they can run the app with low energy power consumption at low temp then i will move on to AMD.

SR3, SR5, SR7, and SR7+ . I see what you did there, AMD

You'd think with targeting low end users after years that they would have enough to do both.