Tuesday, November 18th 2008
AMD Pits Dragon Against Spider, Expects Significant Performance Gains
"Spider" is the codename for a high-end desktop platform by AMD, which came to light late last year. It consisted of an AMD Phenom series processor, an AMD 790FX-based motherboard, and Radeon HD 3800-series graphics card(s). AMD would be offering a new high-end gaming platform based on its products, called "Dragon". It consists of a Phenom II processor, running on an AMD 790-series motherboard, and Radeon HD 4800-series graphics card(s). Expreview sourced a company-confidential side which illustrates the company's expectations from the platform, in terms of performance increments over its predecessor.
With office and productivity applications, AMD slates a 20~40% performance increment. The trend stays with multimedia applications. The gaming performance is where the money lies, with increments up to 280%. Again, take into account that the Dragon testbed is using a Radeon HD 4800 accelerator. 20~40% seems a significant figure, nonetheless.
Source:
Expreview
With office and productivity applications, AMD slates a 20~40% performance increment. The trend stays with multimedia applications. The gaming performance is where the money lies, with increments up to 280%. Again, take into account that the Dragon testbed is using a Radeon HD 4800 accelerator. 20~40% seems a significant figure, nonetheless.
46 Comments on AMD Pits Dragon Against Spider, Expects Significant Performance Gains
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
They didn't say what games.
Hmmmm again.
I have heard rumors of this being THE CHIP way back, way back.
Hmmmmm again.
4 x2 cards.
790FX-based=4PCI-E slots.
Why?
I guarantee you in the driver lab they have a button to turn it on with.
I bet 4 x2 cards will only work right( slow on other chipsets) on the AMD chipset, because they will know how to tune that right now.
When CF was made they used to run like 30 or so x800 cards for airforce flight simulators.
You know they are combining cores, and ATi always likes to keep ahead. Like moving to netframe works wayyyyy back.
I have talked with the driver guys, and more or less a lot of issues are political. Or a way to sell products. This was a few years ago, but it is the same people today.
When the 2900XT was released(that pic you seen me in)they were flashing 2900XT to run at 900Mhz stock, and they would all be stable. CRAZY
Saving the card of 8 GPU in CF would be a good card to hold on too.
I really have no problem with Intel chips being faster, as long as I can still get a good deal from AMD.
One thing that we are overlooking at is this is just one piece of the NDA doc.
How long has the 790FX been out?
Here is a 4x4 working board that runs Phenom
AMD’s FASN8 (first AMD silicon next-gen 8-core)
With 4 x2 cards.
It would be a 8x8 system.
xtreview.com/addcomment-id-3362-view-ASUS-L1a64-WS.htmlen.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_700_chipset_series So who knows but AMD The Dragon could be a new revamped AM3 790FX dual CPU board, and would be out maybe around the time of skull trail.
8x8 would be very very sweet, and very very powerful.