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.
Source:
Expreview
493 Comments on AMD "Vishera" FX-Series CPU Specifications Confirmed
(Of course, I might be mistaken.)
I believe we did not see that much of a performance boost with OC'ing unless we aggressively OC'ed it. For me I took my Bulldozer with all 8-cores to 4.40 GHz with a mild bump in vCore. Now I am interested in Piledriver, who knows, if the price is right, I may bite into it.
www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2204765/amd-vishera-chip-running-at-5ghz-is-spotted
But the article states the obvious anyway.
Grain of Salt for me till reviewers are given the Green to pull the NDA off.
CPUs have to be fast in todays apps as well as tomorrows.
Wow, you are still on the AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ very nice, and I am sure it's been serving you very well. Ahh, the good old Athlon XP days.
Who knows, perhaps Steamroller will be your next upgrade :D DDR3 Memory is dirt cheap, you can easily get 16GB to 32GB and even 64GB Dual-Channel, but DDR4 being more expensive when released I believe should offer much more benefits. It all depends on whether Excavator and/or Steamroller will be DDR4 with new socket or DDR3 with the same AM3+. You obviously don't mind waiting ;)
It may seem like they can get more, but they are bound by the limitations of the die size, and the existing traces in the die.
Good Night Guys, it's close to midnight here,
Oh and here is that quote from that so called Insider.
There is nothing really to see from vishera, generally it will be the same as bulldozer.
You already have an fx-8120 and its not worth getting a vishera cpu.
You should wait for steamroller and hope things will be better.
I personally believe that the real improvement will be "excavator" and that is the one that they are really focusing on and there will be major changes.
As i told you before, it needs a complete redesign in order for this architecture to get fixed.
If this is true, i think they will be officially out of the dedicated desktop CPU's market.
Unless they have cancelled it and they are waiting to release steamroller.
Anyhow real or not (all we see about it on the internet) i have to agree with AvonX Piledriver/Vishera won't be much improvement over Bulldozer I'll say about 10-15% max & probably not even 5% in some area's & all that because of higher clock speed so in another word probably slower then current Bulldozer at same clock speed...
I don't rally care about it much anymore , anyways as i hardly play games since the past 5 years or so & even less since i got back into slot cars racing , now all i need is a cheap PC to surf the net & watch Movies/TV-Series
The FX-8350 is a "Zambezi" "Tweaked" When its finally released, maybe it will be listed in CPU-Z as "Vishera" but i doubt it.
Why should they lie about it? Its a "Zambezi" and that just shows that AMD does not care about dedicated desktop performance CPU's.
The only thing that we could hope for, is for this to be the FX-8170 which i highly doubt. LOL
Or maybe it really is the FX-8170 and they cancelled everything else for dedicated desktop cpus and they are just going to release it as "FX-8350".
That validation was done at the original CPU-Z website.
valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2508909