Thursday, August 21st 2014
AMD Readies Two New Performance-segment FX Processors
AMD is preparing to expand its performance-segment socket AM3+ processor lineup, steering clear of the 220W TDP of its FX-9000 series. The two chips are the FX-8370, and the FX-8370E. The FX-8370 will likely replace the FX-8350 around the $180 mark; while the FX-8370E will be its energy-efficient variant. Both chips offer clock speeds of 4.10 GHz, with 4.30 GHz TurboCore frequencies. While the FX-8370 has a rated TDP of 125W, the FX-8370E features 95W, without a reduction in clock speeds. The FX-8370E could hence come at a slight premium.
Both the FX-8370 and FX-8370E are eight-core processors based on the 32 nm "Vishera" silicon, featuring four "Piledriver" CPU modules that have 2 MB of L2 cache each, and 8 MB of L3 cache shared between the four modules. The chips feature dual-channel DDR3 integrated memory controllers, with native support for DDR3-1866 MHz, and 5.2 GT/s HyperTransport 3.1 system bus. Instruction-sets include AVX, AES, SSE4.2, FMA3, and XOP. The chips will run on all existing socket AM3+ motherboards, with some needing BIOS updates.
Source:
X-bit Labs
Both the FX-8370 and FX-8370E are eight-core processors based on the 32 nm "Vishera" silicon, featuring four "Piledriver" CPU modules that have 2 MB of L2 cache each, and 8 MB of L3 cache shared between the four modules. The chips feature dual-channel DDR3 integrated memory controllers, with native support for DDR3-1866 MHz, and 5.2 GT/s HyperTransport 3.1 system bus. Instruction-sets include AVX, AES, SSE4.2, FMA3, and XOP. The chips will run on all existing socket AM3+ motherboards, with some needing BIOS updates.
54 Comments on AMD Readies Two New Performance-segment FX Processors
However, the trolls and fanboys will be inbound soon to proclaim their epenis is bigger because they own ZXXXZX stuff rather than XXCZXZ stuff..... hence a thread degrading time which will be a shame.
Least anyone forget; the better AMD perform/are as a whole, the more everyone profits... even Intelites. :toast:
* If they do actually run 95w I may try a downclock/undervolt and go for 65w :D
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In lightly threaded workloads they will perform the same and in heavily threaded loads they will perform worse than the standard versions due to being TDP limited (lower turbo speeds).
AMD, you just got 5 sales... my crunchers could use an "upgrade". Maybe I'll manage to sneak another in ;)
edit: just read jabbadap's post... bummer :(
If bringing out new iterations of an architecture showing signs of age "shows demand", there's hope yet for Itanium
In a way it is a good thing because it gives devs more time to focus on tuning and not expecting there to always be more speed.