Monday, May 23rd 2016
AMD "Summit Ridge" Die Pictured?
At its 2016 Annual Shareholders Meeting website, AMD reportedly posted a wafer shot of its upcoming 14 nm "Summit Ridge" CPU die. The "Summit Ridge" silicon is rumored to drive a number of performance-thru-enthusiast processor SKUs for AMD. The die pictured features eight CPU cores based on the "Zen" micro-architecture, a dual-channel DDR4 memory controller, 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and 16 MB of shared L3 cache split between two blocks of four CPU cores, each.
"Summit Ridge," much like the "Bristol Ridge" APU silicon, will be a true SoC, in that it integrates the southbridge on the processor die. With "Summit Ridge," AMD is also introducing a new inter-socket interconnect replacing its ageing HyperTransport technology. The new Global Memory Interconnect (GMI) bus provides a 100 GB/s path between two sockets. The "Summit Ridge" die features two such interconnect ports.
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SemiAccurate
"Summit Ridge," much like the "Bristol Ridge" APU silicon, will be a true SoC, in that it integrates the southbridge on the processor die. With "Summit Ridge," AMD is also introducing a new inter-socket interconnect replacing its ageing HyperTransport technology. The new Global Memory Interconnect (GMI) bus provides a 100 GB/s path between two sockets. The "Summit Ridge" die features two such interconnect ports.
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Now I will just wait for Zen which will probably come in 6-9 months for desktops and in the beginning will be expensive for my taste. And I just realized that in my previous post I forgot that Zen will have Hyperthreding capabilities. So probably I should say $200 for the 4 core + Hyperthreding and over $400 for the 8 core model plus Hyperthreding. That mens 4 core Excavator APUs, or Piledriver CPUs if you want something cheaper than Zen architecture models. AMD NEEDs 6 and 8 core Excavator models in June 1st. BADLY. DDR4, you know? You can't stay one more year selling FX processors with DDR3 to cover the market between Bristol Ridge and Summit Ridge. It's ridiculous. And if there is a $100 Zen with 4 real cores, or 2 cores and Hyperthreding, I am staying with Thuban. If I wanted less cores but faster, I would had bought a i5 long ago. Years ago.Intel's motherboards can support from a Celeron to a i7 from day one. And you know how i7 performs from day 1 also. On the other hand do you really pay $150 for a motherboard so you throw an APU on it and just hope AMD doesn't mess up with Zen? And how much will those Zen chips cost? Do you know for sure that if Zen performs like a Broadwell or even Haswell, not to mention Skylake or Kaby lake, AMD is going to give you those chips for $100-$150? If Zen is like a Haswell in IPC, the 4 cores model will cost over $100 and that's with Hyperthreding capabilities disabled. Prices will go much higher from there, by increasing cores or enabling Hyperthreding.
AMD will have a chance to become a premium brand not with Zen, not even with Zen+, but with Zen+++ if they keep being competitive with Intel and also start beating them with Zen+ and ALL latter models.
So yeah for the vast majority it does not matter at all, sneaky illegal price fixing however....
www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_fx_8350_8320_6300_processor_4300_performance_review,1.html
Single threaded clock for clock comparison to Intel, Multi-threaded clock for clock comparison, and power consumption at clock.
Only bad programmers put everything on one thread these days.
The Willamette were criticised for showing little gain over the P3s
By the time Northwoods and Prescotts and started breaking the 3GHz barrier and started pushing 3.8GHz the P3 wouldn't be worthy enough to utter in the same sentence.
And marketing too, of course. Get OEMs to use their APU. Even as of now, a chip like the FX-8800P (for laptops) which is an interesting choice, is non-existent, well they do exist but severely tampered for whatever reason, or they add an unnecessary dGPU which makes the price uncompetitive.
Intels Israeli research team played with the Pentium m and Pentium 3 then we got the core series of processors. If it wasn't for the core2 duo intel would a different company today.