Volan platform, AM3+ socket October 12 will be a big day for AMD FX lovers, but we
are sure that at least a few of you would like to see a glimpse of the
Buldozer FX successor. Let me remind you that we've already wrote about
Buldozer successor and the chipset
here.
Vishera will have at least three different SKU categories and we can
only suspect to see eight-core, six-core and a quad-core CPUs.
Piledriver CPU cores are supposed to be 10 percent faster than Bulldozer
cores that you find in AMD FX series, and we can hope that AMD can
increase frequencies and get some more performance out of the Volan
platform in second part of 2012.
The date to expect is July to
September and if all goes well, AMD's next generation high end platform
might launch at time for back to school next year. The important part is
that new Vishera CPUs based on Piledriver cores will fit socket AM3+
motherboard, and we are sure that many will appreciate it. Your
Bulldozer FX motherboard should be ok to accommodate the Vishera CPU
once it comes out.
The chipset of choice is AMD 990FX + SB950,
that appears feature packed, but it still lacks native USB 3.0. You can
get USB 3.0 from third party chips and any serious board vendor will
make sure to include them.