Monday, August 27th 2012

AMD "Vishera" FX-Series CPU Specifications Confirmed
A leaked AMD document for retail partners spelled out specifications of the first three FX "Vishera" processors by AMD. The new CPUs incorporate AMD's "Piledriver" architecture, and much like the first-generation "Zambezi" chips, will launch as one each of eight-core, six-core, and four-core chips. The eight-core FX-8350 is confirmed to ship with 4.00 GHz nominal clock speed, with 4.20 GHz TurboCore speed. The six-core FX-6300 ships with 3.50 GHz nominal, and 4.10 GHz TurboCore speed. The quad-core FX-4320, on the other hand, ships with the same clock speeds as the FX-8350. In addition, the document confirmed clock speeds of several socket FM2 A-series APUs, such as the A10-5700 and the A8-5500.
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493 Comments on AMD "Vishera" FX-Series CPU Specifications Confirmed
Piledriver will NOT see the design library enhancement. Piledriver will not really offer all that much more over Bulldozer. I expect maybe 15%, and most of that due to clockspeed increases.
They are just saying this to have an excuse to continue using automated tools.
Personally i think its BS that BD was hand made.
WHatever the truth of it is, that's AMD's official stand on it, so what we think, and the truth, hardly matters. What matters is that AMD manages to capitalize on these chagnes, and turn them into either power savings, or extra perforamnce, so that they can stay relevant to the market as a whole.
Yeah sure it was handmade.
They fact remains, who was "they".
Liek I get that, but you know, the whoel Fermi thing, and why i brougth htat up, was that Jen-Hsun admitted that the rel problem with Fermi was a alck of proper leadership. Like, he actaully admitted he failed. HE got red in the face, but he did admit it. My respect for him increased over 9000.
:roll:
So, bad figures, eh? Someone got a number wrong? COuld have been a typo, could have been on purpose, could have been subterfuge to mis-lead the competition. Could have just been stupidity. Personally, that was all before Papermaster took over, so I don't care.
Personally I can see Piledriver being at least 10% faster clock for clock versus Bulldozer with another 5% faster due to higher clock speeds, hence we have our 15%.
A plus 35-45% would not hurt anyone. :P
I need to upgrade my 1090T, its been too long.
If they do that it will sell madly. First motherboard to support DDR4.
But that is just a wild dream. :laugh:
Well of course they will use it on servers first. But why not? Lets see something different for a change.
Edit: tech2.in.com/news/pc-memory/ddr4-memory-coming-to-pcs-notebooks-in-2013/305022
We don't need DDR4 for desktops right now, DDR3 does the job just fine.
Now Servers & Workstations are all different story. DDR4 will be coming out for those probably in 2014.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4_SDRAM
Something related to that is this: vr-zone.com/articles/how-amd-can-steamroller-the-competition-in-2013/17105.html
I think DDR4 is coming sooner than you think it will. They are pushing hard to use this technology sooner.
And here is a killer Quote. It's great he works for AMD...
And something else as well: www.jedec.org/ddr4workshop
So reading the article, it looks like we are going to see Steamroller & Excavator sooner than we think. Piledriver may now be short lived, because all the news is about Steamroller.
Here's hopping Jim Keller can fix this crap they have been doing at AMD.
Why that performance is poor, I dunno, but THAT is what needs to change, and it doesn't take anyone special to be able to recognize that.
www.hardocp.com/article/2011/10/11/amd_bulldozer_fx8150_desktop_performance_review/4