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To be fair, after AM3 there was also FM1, FM2, FM2+, AM1 and AM2.
by onli 10y ago
To be fair, after AM3 there was also FM1, FM2, FM2+, AM1 and AM2.
- striking 10y agoAM1/2 are older than AM3. And you're right that FM1/2/2+ exist, but FM2 came out in 2012 and FM2+ was backwards compatible with FM2 CPUs. FM chipsets targeted a different range of performance, so I consider the updates to those chipsets orthogonal to the AM series. Thanks for pointing out the FM series, though; I've modified my comment to reflect this.
- onli 10y agoMade a mistake there, you are right, partly. The AM2 is indeed the older AM3, I meant only the AM1, which was a recent platform for some processors with a low TDP. Not very known, it is no surprise it wasn't on your radar.
- dragontamer 10y agoAM1 was a competitor to Intel's Atom chips. Which have no socket at all! AM1 was very niche, but a socket for ~20W CPUs is outstanding. You can pair any AM1 motherboard (down to $20 crap) with any AM1 CPU ($20 crap to $100 less crap). Good for HTPCs and NAS machines... when you need a "serious" Raspberry Pi ish machine with x86 compatibility, AM1 was my choice.
- onli 10y agoI agree. Those were nice cpus and it is not a bad thing that they had a socket. I did not list them as a negative point, but to show that AMD had more sockets in the last time than AM3+, which could maybe partly explain OPs misconception that AMD spread their cpus over them more than Intel. When FM2+ got upgrades while AM3+ got them as well, it was indeed a strange split. That is was nothing compared what Intel does with their platform segmentation seems to have got lost.