AMD - Piledriver chitchat

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Some titbits hinting at steamroller perhaps:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...s/#more-148706

Why does AMD have such bizarre and confusing product branding? (Vandelay)

We used to have great names. Then we sent people to Harvard Business school and they came back and messed them all up.

This is my most often asked question on Twitter. Somebody once said he thought our drivers are so bad, they must be written by a moose.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...x-console.html

The next XBox confirmed to use an AMD CPU??

[kalniel]

The next XBox confirmed to use an AMD CPU??

It was confirmed ages ago I thought? It's a similar chip to the PS4.

In other news, this is perhaps why we're seeing a slow down in new chips and GPUs:
PC sales worldwide have tumbled(bbc)

[DanceswithUnix]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...x-console.html

The next XBox confirmed to use an AMD CPU??

Doesn't sound like an actual confirm to me, just more rumour.

I like the way that article calls x86 a "so called instruction set", perhaps the journo is a RISC fan

Fails to mention that it would actually be running the AMD64 instruction set, so points off there.

[Terbinator]

The specs got "leaked" a while back and i'd be surprised if they're wrong given how accurate the PS4 leaks was.

In other news the always online stuff has been brushed aside by MS and cost one of their Creative Directors his job for his foolish comments on Twitter.

[CountBartok]

I would think that Intel adding openCL support to the HD4000 line and the new HD chip.
We will see openCl grow quite quickly. Which I think should be quite good for AMDs GPU/APU.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post5183158

It seems Haswell has higher CPU power consumption than IB.

[kalniel]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post5183158

It seems Haswell has higher CPU power consumption than IB.

A bit off topic, but perhaps a beefier graphics portion, so when going full whack draw could be higher (still same fab process as IB isn't it?).

Idle? usage is lower.

[DanceswithUnix]

Higher boost clock? They only give 2.6GHz base clock as a rating there, don't know what the two cpus boost to.

[badass]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post5183158

It seems Haswell has higher CPU power consumption than IB.

Still struggling to understand what that has to do with AMD's Piledriver architecture

[watercooled]

Probably half of the posts on this thread are only tangentially related to PD.

[DanceswithUnix]

Still struggling to understand what that has to do with AMD's Piledriver architecture

I said much the same in post #1236 in this thread. Seems to have ended up as a handy news thread, I think only the people who are interested have bothered reading this far so thats a handy idiot filter

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

A bit off topic, but perhaps a beefier graphics portion, so when going full whack draw could be higher (still same fab process as IB isn't it?).

Idle? usage is lower.

It seems to be with a GTX680,so I thought it would be disabled.

OTH,it could be due to the ES nature of the Haswell CPU.

[Noxvayl]

I said much the same in post #1236 in this thread. Seems to have ended up as a handy news thread, I think only the people who are interested have bothered reading this far so thats a handy idiot filter

It is a very handy news thread, CAT should work for Hexus... he gives me at least 20% of the news I read on this website.

[DanceswithUnix]

Rumour of expensive 8350 variant that clocks 20% higher than usual (5GHz).

http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/54057...urion-fx-5ghz/

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I saw this:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost...8&postcount=83

IPC of Kabini seems to be quite decent.