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
I think the prices would be around 1000$, but the most important thing is that we will see performance jumps from both camps. I have heard that GPU companies needed to fulfill their products in base of the cpus, meaning that if there is not enough cpu power, there can't be any new jumps in gpus. Also the fight for the king of cpu, will make big jumps in gpu technology!
May be you should try a high end I7 based board and chip and see how soon you make the board fart or poop :D
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Even so, a high-end 4/8 core could be competitive with a 980x if the IPC is high enough and clock speeds are competitive. Here's hoping...
Of course it's a narrow subset...I ran my AMD with 1600mhz CAS6, and Intel with i5 760 and i7 870, with the exact same memory in 4x2gb, I run @ CAS 7 at 2000mhz. I recently got a kit @ 2400mhz on Intel, if you check peet's memory thread.
That's 800mhz of memory speed Intel gives me. Those tests were done with equal memory speed, but for me, they are NOT equal in that department.
And with that said, you are also looking within a narrow context.
I never said AMD was bad...overall, they are cheaper to build, for me. But I don't care about cost...performance is number one...
To me.
Lots of "me" in there. I can only speak for myself here, not overall.
Good show people, good show.
First, a product preview is not a review, nor does AMD ever market it as such. They have never boasted a 10 fold improve....hell I don't think any technology in history have even come close to that in a one generation jump.
So far AMD, to my knowledge has not directly compared Bully to Sandy, but I could be wrong about that. What they have promised is significant improvement across the board when compared to their current gen. CPU's. They have practically bragged about the Fusion system and where they plan to push the market.
This FX returns is the first time AMD has said anything about going after the performance section of chips. I am glad to hear (even if they fail) that the new chips have shown them enough potential in lab testing to justify the return of FX and direct competition with Sandybridge's top end. Since Sandy has shown to be, from what I gather, only a marginal improvement over the current chips, AMD may not be just hoping for the best outcome here. They maybe hold something back that has not been released to the public. Either way, 2011 is going to be a good show.
It's been clearly identified that AMD’s last CEO which stepped down took the company on a rollercoaster ride into the ditch. Hence AMD's been greatly struggling ever since, i.e.: we have an unsuccessful Barcelona etc.... This is where AMD’s current CEO (Dam Smart I may add) that’s pushing the new Bulldozer Architecture and helped make Phenom II what it is today just to buy AMD some time until Bulldozer gets released.
If my sources are correct, we are going to witness with Bulldozer, another Hammer Core style release but this time with more computing power that should bring AMD equal or better in Clock for Clock with Intel’s latest and greatest.