AMD "Piledriver" refresh of Zambezi - info, speculations, test, fans

[xdan]

What held back, the memory was at 2133 which it's more than 1600 usually normal situation.

As for Vishera ,there is no mystery. It has 11% higher clock and 0-10% higher IPC(so 5% average). Power draw should be on par with FX8150. Pretty clear picture.

And the power draw of FX 8150 does look good to you? It should have been under FX 8150 with some 5-10% to be a real good product.
Anyway if the the power consumption it's FX 8150> than EPIC FAIL.

With AMD many "should have been" but they weren't.

And next year with Haswell AMD APU's will have a big competition.