AMD - Bulldozer Chitchat

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Who is that, and what is their HP?

AFAIK,he is purchaser for Aria.

Also,HP??

[kalniel]

AFAIK,he is purchaser for Aria.

Also,HP??

Sauce...

[MadduckUK]

Who is that, and what is their HP?

what does their hitpoints/horsepower have to do with anything?

[shaithis]

Just saw these..

[watercooled]

They're making use of all the numbers, I wonder how they'll name Trinity?

[Biscuit]

3.9 stock? phewwwww those are some serious clock speeds for the first run of a new generation of chips!

[danroyle]

3.9 stock? phewwwww those are some serious clock speeds for the first run of a new generation of chips!

makes you wonder if they are having to run them that fast to keep pace with intel

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

makes you wonder if they are having to run them that fast to keep pace with intel

Bulldozer is meant to be a high clockspeed design(this has been known for a while AFAIK).

[shaithis]

The design makes me think it should ramp higher, just because they have slimmed the cores down by moving the FPU out in a modular design, thus making each part of the silicon more efficient, allowing higher clockspeeds/cores, a bit like the principles cell/risc CPUs are built on.

[watercooled]

Clock speed is a completely useless comparison between CPUs, even within an architecture it doesn't mean much - it's only useful for comparing EXACTLY the same die, with the same cache and same features enabled. Very few real-world applications scale between chips based on clockspeed, only very repetitive tasks with short, predictable instructions - MD5 hash brute-forcing for example, but this is also the type of application that run orders of magnitude better on GPUs or better still FPGAs/ASICs. It's interesting to see clockspeed of new chips, but it doesn't mean much beyond that.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

When are these chips coming out and will they be the fastest cpu?

[kalniel]

When are these chips coming out and will they be the fastest cpu?

This isn't a serious post, is it?

[EvanJackPenn]

I like how, from the look of things, all the processors are the same throughout (apart from cores and clock speeds, obviously). Although, what are the *s for on the frequencies of the 4120, 6120, 8120, 8170?

[Jasp]

I'm curious if the first gen of these chips will be unlockable, the 4120 looks like a binned 8170 from the core speeds.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

This isn't a serious post, is it?

why?

Genuine question. when are these CPU'S out? Sorry for not reading 20+ pages of this thread

[Jasp]

Mid September hopefully, AMD is due to showcase one under LN2 in a couple of weeks from memory.