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
CPU are bottlenecks to ram themselves.
When they invest 40% into making it faster, they only get 20% back because there has been this game between CPU Speed and Memory speed growing for years.
AMD did it before, they just came out and BAM. I think they could do it again, and I have kept faith in them doing so. I really think they have been drilling out there idea, and their idea is the right path. It's just taking some time to get there.
IDK I have always expected AMD to just slam out a Dual CPU board. That's how the 3870 was given to us, just slam here it is.
They wanted to hide all the facts from Nvidia, and AMD I'm sure is hiding all their little facts as hard as they can from Intel.
I'm actually surprised that 800-series chipsets are not out for to the Dragon platform
on a side note, in that article it sez that the chipset is capable of running at 420mhz HT frequency with an FX 62. I'm very surpirised to hear that, FX-62 are very poor overclockers, i'm actually about to sell mine and moving to intel for that very reason.
Would be a cool release day.
New 790FX
Dual CPU sockets
DDR3
A cpu that will run 4ghz on air.
Letting you use up to 8 cores x 8 GPU CFx
Shrink the 790FX down to 40 from 65.
www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100139&cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_newsRSS
4Ghz
Remember when I ran x1950XTX and X1950XTX together and only lost about 100 points in 3dmark without having a master card:)
Now soft crossfire sucks on all other chipsets......BUT the AMD ones.
This is from the 06 thread
42 DaMulta Connect3D / MSI X1950XTX XFire 675/999 10380 A64 FX-62 @ 3012Mhz - 200.8FSB
Now my CF 2900 score is only a couple thousand points higher using AMD chips.....
forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=38667&highlight=x1950XTX
Haven't seen this thread in ages....
is just madness