Tuesday, February 2nd 2016
AMD Offers New Thermal Solutions and Processors for Near-Silent Performance
AMD today launched new thermal solutions, including the flagship AMD Wraith Cooler, as well as the new AMD A10-7860K and new AMD Athlon X4 845 desktop processors. Designed for the consumer who cares about how their desktop PC runs, sounds, and looks, AMD now offers new thermal solutions that generate less than one-tenth the noise of their predecessors -- running at a near-silent 39 decibels, about as quiet as a library.
The new AMD Wraith Cooler combines near-silent operation with unique styling via a sleek fan shroud and LED illumination. Providing superb cooling, the new design delivers 34 percent more airflow and 24 percent more surface area for heat dissipation than its predecessor.
"The new high quality, robust thermal solutions from AMD for select processors provide a great out-of-the-box experience at no additional cost to the consumer," said Merle McIntosh, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing, Newegg, Inc. "The Wraith model has attractive styling with LED lighting and runs exceptionally quietly -- features we expect will impress our tech savvy consumers."
The new AMD thermal solutions are included with seven AMD processors:
Introducing the AMD A10-7860K Desktop Processor
Quiet, efficient and an incredible value, the new AMD A10-7860K APU is powered by four CPU cores clocked at 4.00 GHz turbo boost and eight GPU cores with integrated Radeon R7 processor graphics running at 757 MHz to enable smooth play of popular online games like Dota 2, League of Legends, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. The A10-7860K is the first unlocked desktop A10 processor to feature 65W TDP (Thermal Design Power) and includes a near-silent thermal solution rated at 95W TDP to ensure quiet operation. In addition, the AMD A10-7860K supports AMD FreeSync technology that puts an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any framerate.
"Customers can build a capable, near-silent online gaming PC in a surprisingly small form factor for an unexpectedly low price" said Kevin Lensing, corporate vice president and general manager, Client Business Unit, AMD. "The low power requirements mean you can build a tiny system perfect for a small dorm room, for use in the living room as a home theatre PC (HTPC), and portable enough to take to a LAN party."
The New AMD Athlon X4 845 Desktop Processor
The AMD Athlon X4 845 is the first desktop processor featuring the AMD "Excavator" x86 architecture technology. The quad-core CPU is clocked at 3.80 GHz boost and offers the highest IPC (instructions per clock) AMD x86 performance yet. When paired with a discrete graphics card, the AMD Athlon X4 845 enables great gaming and multi-threaded processing performance for an attractive price. The new Athlon X4 845 is a 65W TDP processor that comes with a new AMD 95W thermal solution to provide excellent cooling performance and near-silent operation.
Pricing and Availability
The new AMD processors with new thermal solutions are available now at select e-tailers and participating system vendors.
Suggested price (SEP as of February 2, 2016):
The new AMD Wraith Cooler combines near-silent operation with unique styling via a sleek fan shroud and LED illumination. Providing superb cooling, the new design delivers 34 percent more airflow and 24 percent more surface area for heat dissipation than its predecessor.
The new AMD thermal solutions are included with seven AMD processors:
Quiet, efficient and an incredible value, the new AMD A10-7860K APU is powered by four CPU cores clocked at 4.00 GHz turbo boost and eight GPU cores with integrated Radeon R7 processor graphics running at 757 MHz to enable smooth play of popular online games like Dota 2, League of Legends, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. The A10-7860K is the first unlocked desktop A10 processor to feature 65W TDP (Thermal Design Power) and includes a near-silent thermal solution rated at 95W TDP to ensure quiet operation. In addition, the AMD A10-7860K supports AMD FreeSync technology that puts an end to choppy gameplay and broken frames with fluid, artifact-free performance at virtually any framerate.
"Customers can build a capable, near-silent online gaming PC in a surprisingly small form factor for an unexpectedly low price" said Kevin Lensing, corporate vice president and general manager, Client Business Unit, AMD. "The low power requirements mean you can build a tiny system perfect for a small dorm room, for use in the living room as a home theatre PC (HTPC), and portable enough to take to a LAN party."
The New AMD Athlon X4 845 Desktop Processor
The AMD Athlon X4 845 is the first desktop processor featuring the AMD "Excavator" x86 architecture technology. The quad-core CPU is clocked at 3.80 GHz boost and offers the highest IPC (instructions per clock) AMD x86 performance yet. When paired with a discrete graphics card, the AMD Athlon X4 845 enables great gaming and multi-threaded processing performance for an attractive price. The new Athlon X4 845 is a 65W TDP processor that comes with a new AMD 95W thermal solution to provide excellent cooling performance and near-silent operation.
Pricing and Availability
The new AMD processors with new thermal solutions are available now at select e-tailers and participating system vendors.
Suggested price (SEP as of February 2, 2016):
- AMD FX 8370 with Wraith - $199.99 USD
- AMD A10-7860K - $116.99 USD
- AMD A8-7670K - $104.99 USD
- AMD A8-7650K - $94.99 USD
- AMD Athlon X4 870K - $89.99 USD
- AMD Athlon X4 860K - $79.99 USD
- AMD Athlon X4 845 - $69.99 USD
36 Comments on AMD Offers New Thermal Solutions and Processors for Near-Silent Performance
The logical choice is intel... but the FX processors have worked well for me all the way since my FX 4100.
The point is.... its not worth investing into an AM3 build at this point in time. But saying they are just crap is not a fair assessment
i7 5500u and i7 5820k in normal windows applications. All of them have SSD's for the OS and at least 8GB of ram. People now seem to think you need the biggest baddest thing on earth to do anything and everything when in reality my dual core i7 mobile chip would run any game out there just fine if you paired it with a proper video card. Shit is getting to be a joke.
ofc for single thread higher IPC is great but the FX-6300 is already superior to the i3 in many task (mine is a dualcore + HT ) and a 83XX is on par or above the i5 depending the situation (and even reaching a i7 in a few select conditions ) so ... price to price AMD is still the best alternative if bound by a budget.
your customer that go AMD 1st and Intel after, are mostly in a "placebo effect" scenario were they get : "AMD? bah you should go Intel they outperform them by a huge margin"
bottom line, Vishera is not a crap nor are the APU and Athlon based on Piledriver/Excavator, they are still cost efficient and slightly competitive enough to be considered as viable alternative (and nope the difference in TDP will not make up for the product prices difference )
edit:ahhh i am not the only one to notice a placebo effect :laugh: .... i answered the thread before reading that post :)
toms hardware.
idiot: "Intel feels snappier"
nondelusional person: "what is your OS drive?"
idiot: " this sweet 5400 rpm Seagate that I got for 40 bucks!"
And that's about all you need to know when conversing with these crack heads.
Also, to stir the pot, didn't blind tests result in people picking AMD as more responsive in their normal tasks... LOL
if I am not multi-threading much, is any of the listed CPUs worth upgrading from i5 750? (Ancient 45nm 2.66Ghz piece from 2009)
ark.intel.com/products/42915/Intel-Core-i5-750-Processor-8M-Cache-2_66-GHz