AMD - Piledriver chitchat

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

so the the Athlon II 740 will be for the FM2 boards .
Why can't they make them for the AM3 ?

It is basically a kibbled Trinity quad core.

[DanceswithUnix]

It is basically a kibbled Trinity quad core.

"Kibbled", don't here that very often. I think that's my word of the day

[Biscuit]

http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2012/2...confirmed.html

It seems the Athlon II X4 740 has a 65W TDP.

I would have thought, given the Athlon II was a derivative of K10 cores, it would be more appropriate to call this one an Athlon III

[watercooled]

Good point that, especially considering they wanted to drop the brand names from their CPUs...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I would have thought, given the Athlon II was a derivative of K10 cores, it would be more appropriate to call this one an Athlon III

The naming guy got fired?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://translate.googleusercontent.c...mI9I5aLpcCLR6w

[Terbinator]

Pictures have died

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Pictures have died

Works fine with me??

BTW,these seems to be rumours that Trinity and Abu Dhabi will use full Piledriver cores, and that Vishera will different cores which are only slightly tweaked Bulldozer ones. That would be a pile of fail!

Edit!!

The pictures are in this article:

http://www.techpowerup.com/172376/AM...-Near-IDF.html

[watercooled]

It would seem strange to release Trinity on Abu Dhabi but not Vishera IMO...

If you're going by the screenshots, according to CPUID changelogs, preliminary Trinity support was added in March and nothing since, so it could just be a case of it misinterpreting CPUID strings.

[Biscuit]

BTW,these seems to be rumours that Trinity and Abu Dhabi will use full Piledriver cores, and that Vishera will different cores which are only slightly tweaked Bulldozer ones. That would be a pile of fail!

Christ i hope thats not true, i cant be bothered to do a full system update and switch to Intel, i was hoping to just throw a new CPU in there for a moderate boost in performance but if they are basically the same, not worth the silicone they're made from for my uses.

[Terbinator]

Christ i hope thats not true, i cant be bothered to do a full system update and switch to Intel, i was hoping to just throw a new CPU in there for a moderate boost in performance but if they are basically the same, not worth the silicone they're made from for my uses.

Giggity.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems both CINEBENCH and wPrime were run.



It is hard to say whether that score was taken at either 4.8GHZ or 5.0GHZ,but looking at scores for overclocked FX8150 CPUs,the IPC increase would be around 10% in CINEBENCH if the benchmark was run at 5GHZ.

That means,the FX8350 would score around 7.2 in CINEBENCH at 4GHZ,which would in-between a Core i7 2700K and a Core i7 3770K.

[shaithis]

10% seems quite low. I thought the biggest issue with BD was the instruction decoder which has now been changed so it doesn't bottleneck the module?

I was expecting more then 10% from that alone the way it was being talked about.......although I guess there is always the chance cinebench does not show that change particularly well.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Toms Hardware did say they got a 15% IPC increase in their Trinity A10 sample, when compared to the FX8150 in 3DS Max 2012 and iTunes. OTH,gaming performance is an unknown and I expect Intel to still be better with their Core i5 CPUs.

Edit!!

Steamroller is the core which has the revised front end.

[Biscuit]

Giggity.

Easy mistake to make... when your mind is on other things

[ThunderHD]

I've always been an Intel guy really at heart, although the last AMD CPU I had was a dual core, did me well for it's 3-4 years of usage. Still not sure about AMD though. Maybe it's personal preference? I don't know