Industry’s ''Best CPU'' Speeds Up, Stays Cool, Outperforms Competition: AMD

[csendesmark]

are these native 12-cores, or 4x 3-cores?

2 × 6 cores dude

 

[X1REME]

I honestly think Intel knows it getting bulldozed very soon. (Am hoping ). So Intel quickly released their SB to sell as many as they can, whilst no AMD Bulldozer parts, Never even ironed out the bugs/testing done none

It’s pretty easy to see that Intel is freaking out, rushing & panicking in the process. The tick - tock is history soon. Nm progress will happen but 2x (more as we get smaller nm) as slow to half nodes as different materials and equipment is used.

I see company’s working together in groups to save costs in the future as process gets much smaller. Intel maybe going at it alone (more risk and very expensive)

 

[newfellow]

"Two-processor servers using these latest AMD Opteron processors outperform Intel Xeon 5680 (“Westmere”) processor-based servers on eight key server benchmarks."

2 ?

Heck, this is only an little higher clocked 32nm 6 core. how the hell can 12 core be still behind the processing specially on servers. I mean sure double bdw AVX etc Intel CPU internal encryption hardware processing of AES might be pretty cool, but still it's weird.

 

[Disparia]

Here are the numbers and configurations AMD was talking about:

http://blogs.amd.com/work/2011/02/1...ng-for-amd-opteron™-6100-series-processors-2/

 

[Aceman.au]

That means 240w for 4ghz I imagine

Not these are meant for overclocking, but still.

Oh I can see it now... The CPU smoking, sparks flying out the side of the case!

 

[a_ump]

So is there supposed to be a desktop version of these 12-core CPU's?

And just a side note, Bulldozer has been in work isnce 2005....AMD's release had better be as good or better than what intel has to offer when the time comes. If 5 years of work, building an architecture from the ground up, isn't enough time to surpass your competition's product there's something wrong. Yes Intel has a lot of money, but the past 3-5 years they haven't invented anything astounding. They've really just evolved their CPU's, just upgrading old techniques and tweaking current core's.

AMD i've always noticed are more inventive/creative than Intel with a much smaller budget, and i hope Bulldozer proves that.