Friday, February 10th 2012

AMD 2012 CPU Roadmap Unveils FX-X300 and A10 Series
AMD is pushing on with a desktop product lineup that's leveraging its Piledriver CPU and Graphics CoreNext GPU architectures in 2012. Apparently, the company will have a faster product development cycle to catch up with Intel's "Tick-Tock", as revealed in a roadmap slide scored by DonanimHaber. The current product lineup will remain unchanged in the first quarter of 2012. Then in the second quarter, AMD will launch a few more socket AM3+ FX-8000, FX-6000, and FX-4000 series eight, six, and four-core processors; along with the much talked about "Trinity" accelerated processing unit.
The fastest "Trinity" APUs will get a new brand identifier, the A10-5000 series. These APUs will pack next-generation "Piledriver" modular cores and Radeon HD 7600D series graphics. Around this time, AMD will also launch the Brazos 2.0 low-power APU for netbooks, nettops, and embedded computing devices. Brazos 2.0 will get the E2-1000 series branding. The big change is reserved for the third quarter of 2012, when AMD launches the successor of its less-than-lucky AMD FX "Bulldozer" processor family.Codenamed "Vishera", AMD's new FX-x300 family (where x = 8 in case of eight-core, 6 in case of six-core, and 4, in case of quad-core), will likely be built on the same AM3+ platform, but based on the "Piledriver" core architecture, which brings in about 15% IPC increase over Bulldozer. The roadmap slide talks about FX-8350 being the top-end part, followed by FX-8320, FX-6300, and FX-4320. Around that time, AMD will replace its A6 and A4 "Llano" parts with new A6 and A4 "Trinity" ones. The A6-5400 APU features Radeon HD 7540D graphics, while the A4-5300 features Radeon HD 7480D.
Source:
DonanimHaber
The fastest "Trinity" APUs will get a new brand identifier, the A10-5000 series. These APUs will pack next-generation "Piledriver" modular cores and Radeon HD 7600D series graphics. Around this time, AMD will also launch the Brazos 2.0 low-power APU for netbooks, nettops, and embedded computing devices. Brazos 2.0 will get the E2-1000 series branding. The big change is reserved for the third quarter of 2012, when AMD launches the successor of its less-than-lucky AMD FX "Bulldozer" processor family.Codenamed "Vishera", AMD's new FX-x300 family (where x = 8 in case of eight-core, 6 in case of six-core, and 4, in case of quad-core), will likely be built on the same AM3+ platform, but based on the "Piledriver" core architecture, which brings in about 15% IPC increase over Bulldozer. The roadmap slide talks about FX-8350 being the top-end part, followed by FX-8320, FX-6300, and FX-4320. Around that time, AMD will replace its A6 and A4 "Llano" parts with new A6 and A4 "Trinity" ones. The A6-5400 APU features Radeon HD 7540D graphics, while the A4-5300 features Radeon HD 7480D.
43 Comments on AMD 2012 CPU Roadmap Unveils FX-X300 and A10 Series
Example:
FX-8120 @ 1 Core per Module = 4 single cores = Quad-Core (4/4) performed MUCH faster than the FX-4100 (2/4) at same clock speed. AMD needs to setup Piledriver so it can disable and enable both ways, which ever way gives you better performance.
www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-FX-Series%20FX-4170%20FD4170FRW4KGU.html
Link
forum.notebookreview.com/8242858-post4780.html
forum.notebookreview.com/8247215-post4801.html
forum.notebookreview.com/8248595-post4815.html
forum.notebookreview.com/8265815-post4938.html
There's very good reason to believe that the 17w ULV Trinity parts will equal 25/35w Llano parts (talking notebooks here). 25/35w Trinity parts will blow Llano out of the water.
Realize that Trinity looses the slow L3 cache that definitely does not help BD on the desktop.
so i'm looking forward to brazos 2.0
Then we can kiss Competition GoodBye :eek:
That's how you sound in some of your posts :D
AMD is doing great, Just not a GREAT as they once were is all. Get over this BS of Intel Killing AMD and the end of competition will you?! :mad:
Anyhow it's hard to tell if Piledriver will be better than the current FX line , we'll have to wait & see
I don't care if they don't get it out before Sept 2012 as long as they "fixed" the god damn thing , i want higher performance at same clock speed first , after that they can start raising clock speed all they want
A_Pickle said: