Monday, November 2nd 2009
AMD Updates CPU Schedule
AMD updated its CPU market schedules, looking as far as Q4 2010, across various CPU product lines. The update involves phasing out several existing products, adding replacements, and the addition of new products, according to sources in the motherboard industry. To begin with, several Phenom II X4 900 series quad-core processors will be discontinued. The company has reportedly already stopped taking orders for the Phenom II X4 910 (HDX910WFK4DGI, 2.60 GHz), and the 125W Phenom II X4 945 (HDX945FBK4DGI, 3.00 GHz). The latter perhaps is phased out due to its 95W variant (HDX945WFK4DGM). The company will stop taking orders for the 140W Phenom II X4 965 BE in Q1 2010, perhaps because of its 125W variant, for X4 925 around the same time, and for the X4 955 125W in Q2. The company is planning to release a 95W variant of the X4 955 around that time.
The company will also stop taking orders for several Phenom II X4 800 series, X3 700 series, X2 500 series, and Athlon II X4 600 series, and X3 400 series processors, as Phenom II X4 820, Phenom II X3 740 and Phenom II X2 550 will remain. Q4 2009 will see the introduction of the 3.20 GHz Phenom II X2 555, the new Athlon II X4 640 (3.00 GHz, 95W), and the Athlon II X3 445 (3.10 GHz, 95W) will follow in Q2 2010.
Finally, Q2 2010 will see the introduction of the company's six-core processor, codenamed "Thuban". Built on the 45 nm process, it features 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and 6 MB of shared L3 cache. It retains the socket AM3 package, and the first in the series could sport a clock speed of 2.80 GHz.
Source:
DigiTimes
The company will also stop taking orders for several Phenom II X4 800 series, X3 700 series, X2 500 series, and Athlon II X4 600 series, and X3 400 series processors, as Phenom II X4 820, Phenom II X3 740 and Phenom II X2 550 will remain. Q4 2009 will see the introduction of the 3.20 GHz Phenom II X2 555, the new Athlon II X4 640 (3.00 GHz, 95W), and the Athlon II X3 445 (3.10 GHz, 95W) will follow in Q2 2010.
Finally, Q2 2010 will see the introduction of the company's six-core processor, codenamed "Thuban". Built on the 45 nm process, it features 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and 6 MB of shared L3 cache. It retains the socket AM3 package, and the first in the series could sport a clock speed of 2.80 GHz.
56 Comments on AMD Updates CPU Schedule
Possibly 56 lanes on the PCI-E end of things.
SB will probally get introduced at the same time most likely in same sku naming scheme as todays chipsets.
890fx 890x 890gx 880g ..
sb800 sb850.
Orginal roadmap dating back 12 months have listed it in august this year, but obv not.
rumours say Q1 010.
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Nothing to see here folks, move on.
"Runs great on Core I7" crap, anyone?
Maybe SC doesn't use all cores to the fullest, but it's pretty good.
50 + 20 + 10 + 10 + 40 + 80 + 20 + 50 = 280
280/800 = 0.35
0.35 * 100 = 35%
Core i7 920. It wasn't even using half of the available processing power. On Gulftown at the same clockspeed would only be operating at 23% CPU usage.That's framerates, not CPU usage. Framerates are 90% determined by the card. Also note that they changed the resolution on each of the tests.
Supreme Commander, visually, didn't change for me going from a dual core Opteron 180 to a Core i7 920. The game slows its clock down if the CPU is being over burdened (making a 1 hour long game take 8 hours). Again, framerates/resolution really say nothing about how burdened the CPU is.
AMD must make Thuban price competitive with their quad-cores in order to create a hexacore market that currently doesn't exist for mainstream parts like Intel did with their first MCM quad-cores (Core 2 Quad).
As I said in my first response, AMD really has an opportunity here--not for a performance crown but for a platform crown (AM3 is a cheaper platform than LGA-1366). If AMD succeeds in bringing cheap hexacore processors to market (creating the market), Intel may be forced to release price competitive hexacore LGA-1156 processors sooner (Nehalem/Westmere) rather than later (Sandybridge).
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