More AMD Bulldozer Platform Surface
Looking good
AMD’s upcoming Bulldozer architecture is still a few months away, but more and more information is slowly starting to surface and paint the full picture.
Bulldozer should be able to fight Intel’s Core i7 series and from the looks of it the new core will give Intel a run for its money. According to Xbit Labs, Bulldozer will perform on a par with Core i7 2600 chips and the desktop Zambezi iteration will proudly bear the FX moniker.
The FX-4xxx designation is reserved for quad-cores, while six- and eight-cores will be dubbed FX-6xxx and FX-8xxx series respectively. Bulldozer is AMD’s first entirely new architecture in nearly eight years and it will feature quite a few clever ideas.
Bulldozer features a modular design and each module is comprised of two independent integer cores that will share fetch, decode and L2 functionality. Eight-cores will get 8MB of cache, while six- and quad-cores feature 6MB and 4MB respectively. However, the chip will still feature up to 8MB of shared L3 cache and an all-new memory controller, capable of supporting DDR3 up to 1866MHz.
Bulldozer will pack HyperTransport 3.1 and the new chips will use the AM3+ socket, hence they won’t be compatible with existing motherboards, which is hardly a surprise. AMD is scheduled to roll out 900-series chipsets sometime in Q2. The word on the street is that chipset development has ran into some minor setbacks, but there is a very good chance Bulldozer will be on schedule and we might see actual products at Computex.
More here.
Source: http://www.fudzilla.com/processors/item/22101-more-bulldozer-specs-surface
14 Mar 2011, 5:20 pm
Very exiting
Thanks for all the updates
14 Mar 2011, 5:49 pm
Why doesn’t AMD try to surpass sandybridge? Why compete with sandybridge when you could be competing with 2011 socket cpus?
14 Mar 2011, 7:55 pm
Because that’s never been what they existed for, they’re there to be cheaper and provide nearly if not the same performance. Surpassing intel would mean they’d have to get expensive which they don’t want.
14 Mar 2011, 8:00 pm
It doesn’t mean they’d have to get more expensive. They can control their own prices. They could still have a superior product, sell it for less, and reap huge profits over intel. I mean, if you’re going to be competing with intel, don’t brag because you might match their lower tier processors.
14 Mar 2011, 9:38 pm
15 Mar 2011, 4:07 am
Üse quotation marks if taking a whole article from another site.
Also, if you so do, don’t have it posted in blogs. But just forums. We don’t want the blogs to be 100% not ours..
15 Mar 2011, 6:02 am
Would you charge less for something that costed you twice as much as your average to make?
15 Mar 2011, 6:51 am
I keep forgetting to do that. I was able to site the source though
15 Mar 2011, 8:55 am
i’ll probably get the upgrade itch again towards the end of the year, and jump on the ivy bridge 2011 just for shi** and giggles, cos um.. thats how i roll
15 Mar 2011, 9:13 am
if the new bulldozer competes wiht the snady bridge theni am disapointed i expected more
15 Mar 2011, 9:15 am
I expect it to crush sandy balls.
Hell, just look at the packaging!
That’s enough to get ME tempted..
But I’ll stay put for some LGA2011 action
15 Mar 2011, 11:56 am
mmmm.. looks purty… hmm
15 Mar 2011, 3:38 pm
ohh man, shouldn’t have bought a 2500k
15 Mar 2011, 3:53 pm
Do you really think that intel is charging high prices out of necessity? They do it because no one can compete with them. If AMD could find a way to compete with intel and make something better or at least comparable, and then sell it for a lower price they would be making a lot more money than intel would. Intel’s prices would go down as a result too. Intel just marks up their prices because they know people will buy it anyway. It is possible to sell it for less and still make a profit.
15 Mar 2011, 3:58 pm
why? did it stop working when green posted up those fx box shots?
15 Mar 2011, 4:13 pm
hahaha, i don’t even have a motherboard for it yet, which sucks.
15 Mar 2011, 4:16 pm
yeah, i’m going to be swapping my p8p67 out for a sabretooth b3 or p8p67 pro b3 at the end of this month, just gonna pay the diff. could have a week ago since theyve had them in stock but have software tied to this board atm :/
ooh and what you’ll notice with the 2500k is that it shines in cpu intense gaming like civ 5 and to an extent l4d2 etc.. it’ll breath new fps when coupled with old gen cards such as the 9800gt, thats what i found. me personally, i needed it for my simulations, its blazingly fast for me
15 Mar 2011, 5:30 pm
Sure is wishful thinking in here. And you are correct, Intel does what they want because noone tops them and if AMD actually did, guess what they’d do. That’s right, CRANK DEM PRICES GET MONEY GO GO GO. Because even if they did have a faster chip why take the chance? Why sell low when you can sell high and still get all the sheep that would have bought it to do so for more profit?
Corporations do everything to survive, they don’t give you top of the line stuff for cheap, it ain’t charity.
15 Mar 2011, 7:19 pm
One detail I think you guys are forgetting, is that Intel holds the patents on the CPU. It’s a pretty nasty market. I also believe, that AMD is actually making advances in technology. Honestly, if AMD had merged with NVidia, ATI would have died, and AMD would have become a real power house. I’m getting distracted.
I think this new design will be swallowed up by Intel, and you will see a new line of chips that mirror this design.
I’m still basing my next rig on AMD/Nvidia.
15 Mar 2011, 11:28 pm
Yea im sticking amd nvidia as well. Had and old 9000pro64mb card that kick ass.
16 Mar 2011, 12:05 am
is it just me or do the pictures of the processors on the Box look very much alike to the Intel processors? and those don’t seem to have socket pins coming outta them
16 Mar 2011, 12:22 am
I guess it could go either way at that point. They’d do whatever would give them the most profit. Even with just Intel’s reputation, though, AMD might still have to lower prices if they had a superior product in order to sell it. There are those blind sheep out there who just religiously go with Intel because of the name. You also have to weigh the cost with how many people are going to buy the item.
I don’t think I could ever mix AMD and Nvidia. I’d go with Intel and Nvidia if I could afford it, but I’m happy with my AMD system right now.
16 Mar 2011, 5:58 am
0_o noticed it now