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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155 Comments on AMD FX Making a Comeback, to Challenge Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
I remember being so jealous of my my friends FX-51 back in the day :P
good to know too, because it seemed AMD only released them when they kicked ass. so I have high hopes for a new FX enthusiast chip!
Black Editions are awesome and all, but a BE FX would but off the hook
"AMD is seeking to target all market segments, including an enthusiast-grade 8-core segment, a performance 6-core segment, and a mainstream 4-core segment."
So if I can't afford 8 core, then 6 core will still be a kick ass upgrade:rockout:.
I just wonder, these will be just re-branded Opterons again? :)
I never saw anything official from AMD saying they were making a NV killer with a product refresh.
Then you had alot of people just running their mouths off with specs etc yet again nothing official from AMD. This same nonsense happens at every GPU release and people get caught up in the hype drama.
AMD's current vision of not making monster single gpu's and going with dual at the highend works fine for them.
If these cards are such a disappointment why are people buying them?
look here:
being slower clock vs clock doesnt tell the whole story when they have two more cores. the FX line they mention is going to improve the IPC, and if they maintain the advantage of having more cores then thats going to make quite an impact.
these new CPU's are meant to improve the CPU speed per clock cycle, and if they do a new challenger will have appeared.
it just annoys me when i see people scream 'i7 is faster!' when its certainly not as simple as that. in the encoding i do (handbrake/H264) the AMD 6 cores have quite an advantage over the i7's
hec if they can get per core up to Intel's i5/i7 speed or better, and slam down cheap quads, affordable hexa's and high end octo's, that will be fan-freakin-tastic.
To be honest i would like bulldozer to pass the current i7's as far as IPC goes for them to keep my business for my gaming rig, the main reason i have stayed with AMD so long is because i have been able to keep a combo of CPU, RAM and motherboard for years on end and just grab a single component at a time and my coming upgrade i will be replacing motherboard, CPU and RAM at the same time so Intel and AMD both have a chance at getting my money this year.
I'm probably asking for a lot but really i want bulldozer to beat the i7's clock for clock and preferably be close to sandy bridge, have a good amount of overclocking ability while not costing too much for the 8 core models.
Don't fool yourself. AMD has been price over performance because it HAD TO. What the F#$K would you have expected them to do? Price a 1090T the same as a 980X and expect them to sell with sub-par performance comparatively speaking?
They are bringing back the FX because they think they can. They also know they can charge for the FX name.