Friday, December 31st 2010
AMD FX Making a Comeback, to Challenge Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
Come 2011, and AMD is looking to give Intel its much awaited fightback at all market segments of consumer processors including the enthusiast-grade models. It will be made possible with AMD's new Bulldozer architecture, which gives the processor a much higher degree of inter-core integration, sharing of common components, higher instructions per clock-cycle, and Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). AMD's Bulldozer "Zambezi" desktop chips will be reportedly available in two ultra high-end SKUs: the 8-core AMD Vision Black FX, and performance segment AMD Vision Ultimate FX. AMD suspended the use of "FX" identifier with its Phenom and Phenom II series processors, because it couldn't compete in higher-end market segments, and didn't want to dilute the "FX" identifier. It was replaced with "Black Edition" to help identify models with unlocked BClk multipliers. AMD's Vision Black FX processors will be competitive with Intel's highest-end processors, including Extreme Edition models.
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DonanimHaber
155 Comments on AMD FX Making a Comeback, to Challenge Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
It was similar with graphic cards. If one was holding the crown for too long, the performance was stagnating. But if each was on top for a while we've seen larger leaps in performance.
I haven't put any personal preference into it, just stating a fact.
I then read a few other sites to check that I wasn't dreaming and of course they came out the same.
No wonder it's so much cheaper than the GTX 580.
Can you imagine how things would be if the performance would have leapfrogged the GTX 580? Performance leapfrogging is what should happen, not almost as good as the competition's previous generation.
Without leapfrogging, graphics advancements are happening at a glacial pace and prices stay high. All this is bad for us, the knowledgeable customers.
Personally i thought a nice performance boost was going to be inevitable with the 6900's, but apparently not, they disappointed many. Even with the quick arrival of the 570 and 580, it's still based on the same design just focused on improved efficiency and only about a 12% push in performance over the previous design, besides still being on 40nm Cayman is a top down design, it's not slightly tweaking the same architecture and i personally expected a lot more, to me the 6900's were a step back instead of a solid leap forward for AMD in the GPU realm.
Also Intel is playing with new arcitecture where as AMD is still playing with the same old with a few mods here and there. Intel wipes the floor clean when it comes to clock vs. clock. That's been fact for a long time now despite the fact in games, there's not too much of a major difference in performance. GPU's are a different story... My sentiments exactly though I think the HD 6900 series disappoint only individuals that bought into ATI’s Evergreen series, and good on them, that was a killer series.
I’ve held onto my HD 4870 512MB for about 2 years now and when the HD 5870 was released, I just picked up another HD 4870 and Crossfire them to keep up in performance. So for me that never touched Evergreen, I am very satisfied with my new Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 card. I am probably going to do the same thing when the HD 7900's get released, just buy a cheaper HD 6970 for Crossfire or if the price is right I will buy one sooner.
Don’t know what AMD/ATI did for this round of graphics, just looking at the benchmarks, they’ve really fixed the CrossfireX scaling. Performance is so much better. It is that impressive and a lot better than any other generation they’ve released so far IMO.
Personally, I think more competition in the top end chips will filter down to the middle and bottom, but if AMD takes the clear lead, then we will have stupidly expensive AMD chips again :(
When they say something is going to be faster than some other video card their almost always referring to THEIR previous generation card not the competition.
i almost fell of the chair laughing
i mean come on, goals are nice to have, but unrealistic ones? geez
so the 8core will be as good as what? a 980x? i doubt it, 920/50 yes, but again, those chips are OVER!!!! 2 yrs old , AMD really need to do something insanely extreme to make a 2 yrs+ jump in time to keep up.
stay with what you do now AMD, and let Intel do the madness with 1000$ consumer chips,
and yes, bash me if you want, but its the truth
"AMD FX Making a Comeback, to Challenge Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition"
But at the same time...I've spent extensive time with both. The actual performance difference in daily tasks is near zero.
Now, because this news comes so late, and SandbyBridge boards and cpus are floating around, this clearly indicates to me that AMD thinks it can compete with Intel in the high-end segment.
But...is it the 2600K they are fighting? Or the 980X?
Also, donanim haber lists no source, and the details are vague(Turkish site, BTW). So while I think that this may indicate Bulldozer is really good, I cannot say for sure without any real sources for the story...as far as I am concerned, this isn't even news, because there is NO SOURCE!!!
Just keep in mind the 69--series hype, and the letdown there. Don't fall victim to misplaced hype again.
Now, if AND wants to send me some parts, and prove otherwise...My testbench is waiting. Would be nice to have a couple of newer platforms to play with from either side....;)
C'mon, JF-AMD. Hook a brotha up. :laugh: I'm only waiting for you, now...:laugh: