AMD - Piledriver chitchat

[DanceswithUnix]

Samsung, you have my attention

OK, the A6-4455 is the 17W version... even more interested!

No doubt we will soon learn that Apple first had the idea that a CPU could consume 17W and patented it

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Here is an extensive user review of the Samsung A10-4600M laptop which has the HD7670M:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18433537

[MrNeil]

I am impressed indeed

Im sure other people will slag it down !!

[watercooled]

Oh you can guarantee it, regardless of performance...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Saw this over on another forum:

http://cdn.overclock.net/1/13/139e2d...opTraining.png



http://www.overclock.net/t/1297503/o...#post_18005327

It looks the base clockspeed has increased somewhat on the CPUs. So,if the kind of IPC increase seen by Toms Hardware with Trinity are seen with Vishera,MT performance probably will be around 20% better. Single threaded performance increase will have to be down to IPC improvements it seems,as the lightly threaded Turbo Core clockspeeds are the same.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Saw this on another forum:

http://www.slideshare.net/zlatan4177...ithms-in-games

A few references are made to APUs.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://wccftech.com/amd-trinity-desk...-october-2012/

[watercooled]

Does that mean review NDA lifts on 1st Oct too?

We just need the likes of Handbrake etc to release public versions of their OpenCL accelerated software, and for AMD to enable VCE...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Details about the Jaguar CPU cores which will be used in the Brazos successor:

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/08/28/a...e-jaguar-core/

Supposedly,up 15% improved IPC,10% higher clockspeeds,twice the number of cores and lower power consumption when compared to the CPU section of Brazos.

[MrNeil]

I got my eye on the 6300

But i found some info for steamroller !! Worth to wait ????


http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/AMD-St...ews-39736.html

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems AMD is starting to hire some more talent:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6202/a...t-architecture

Anandtech overview of Steamroller:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6201/a...r-architecture

Looks like a big change!

Kavery with its GCN based IGP is going to be very interesting!!

[badass]

I was originally going to buy a Sandy Bridge Machine in Feb 2011 or whenever Sandy was first released. It turned out that the 2500k was less than twice as fast as my Q6600, despite being more expensive for the CPU than I paid for the Q6600 and 4 years newer. Moores law, my arse!
I wasn't going to replace my motherboard, RAM and CPU for that kind of performance improvement.
Ivy Bridge came out and is (just) more than twice as fast but the real killer of quicksync. For everything else, most CPU's will do. I was going to take the jump but am too bust at work right now to make sure I get the right bits. With only one more month, I think I'll see what the A10-5800K has to offer. Particularly interested in VCE (doesn't have to be as fast as Ivy Quicksync but same ballpark would be nice) support for Handbrake.
OpenCL I'm not that bothered about as the speedup isn't that great compared to the dedicated hardware.

An i5-3570K has more performance than I need, however I am after a machine that will last for ages only needing a GFX card update to keep current.
I believe the 3570K will offer that, however all Z77 motherboards are limited to 32GB RAM whilst current FM1 motherboards can take 64GB.......

Perhaps a 5800K will do for now, then a steamroller upgrade in 2013/2014 will hit the spot. If the 5800k is good enough, it won't be the end of the world if steamroller isn't great.
I wonder if PCIe 2.0 will be a limiting factor for upper midrange Gfx cards in 2016?

Decisions, decisions.

[DanceswithUnix]

Details about the Jaguar CPU cores which will be used in the Brazos successor:

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/08/28/a...e-jaguar-core/

Supposedly,up 15% improved IPC,10% higher clockspeeds,twice the number of cores and lower power consumption when compared to the CPU section of Brazos.

Interesting, but I presume they will stick with a 17W TDP and I wonder how that will compare against the Trinity 17W part.

This could be one hell of an Opteron part for the micro server people though!

[watercooled]

The Bobcat core size was tiny, let alone Jaguar, 3.1mm^2!

I wonder if AMD have a smartphone/tablet SoC in the pipeline to compete with Medfield?

It would also be nice to see PC Engines update their ageing ALIX platform with something like this. Maybe they'll release salvaged parts with the GPU fused off for server/embedded applications; having a relatively huge GPU on-die when you're only using the CPU part doesn't seem right somehow. Saying that though, are the SNB Xeons using a different die or is it just a case of fusing off the GPU?

[DanceswithUnix]

I'm sure they always expected to see bobcat in tablets, but for some reason it just didn't really happen.

I guess when a Windows license costs as much as an entire entry level Android tablet, it is a hard sell.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'm sure they always expected to see bobcat in tablets, but for some reason it just didn't really happen.

I guess when a Windows license costs as much as an entire entry level Android tablet, it is a hard sell.

There were one or two IIRC,but they were not common.