K8 under review

http://www.x86-secret.com/popups/a [...] .php?id=67

They claim to have a lot of unofficial stuff
1 long horn windows
1 .net windows
1 ES sample P4
1 ES sample AXP
1 K8 paris

It been clear on last AMD road map that they will go with 1MB of L2 cache on Athlon 64 i guess AMD have made the same conlcusion that me A64 wont be competitif with NW with only it On die MCH.

Gain at equal frenquency and very low compare to AXP expect on some benchmark that like low lantency.Around 10 to 15%.The big question is how it really scale because a single DDR 333 can send more that 1.8/GBS compare to the 2.4 GB of PC 1066 does the low lantency will do the job or the bandwith starving will affect the scalling at high speed.

They got a score about 40% lower lantency compare to AXP 333 FSB so again a canterwood chipset they lanteny gap will shrink to about 0 to 25 %.The only thing it become hard to predict is how much the lantency will decrease as K8 will scale in frenquency

Just next to the lab and the bunker you will find the marketing departement.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by juin on 01/29/03 00:09 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

I don't think english is his primary language. No need to dump on ppl. Sounds to me like he's trying harder then most.

Here is a link to the article preface...<A HREF="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.x86-secret.com/popups/newswindow.php?id=483&langpair=fr|en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=/language_tools" target="_new">LinkoPageoPreviouso</A>. Link at the bottom is what Juin passed on.

Dichromatic for your viewing plesure...

Did my eyes just decieve me???
Did i see Juin Praise a AMD product???

<b>My Computer is so powerful Sauron Desires it and mortal men Covet it, <i>My Precioussssssss</i></b>

Article is back up and translating well.

Dichromatic for your viewing plesure...

Well, the benches are weak, there is still room for improvements. (200MHZ FSB+on-die NB, should yeild much more per clock)
I doubt AMD will ever release a 1.4GHZ Athlon 64 anyways, it is way too weak compared to Opteron.

And as we can see, the AGP has not been fixed.
Other than that, the multiplier thing surprised me. First in that we were not sure whether or not and how it clocks, and what is the FSB. Then the FSB at 200MHZ which is quite amazing. It will allow easier ramping with lower multipliers.

What also stands out for real though is the heat output. That was a surprise, the AMD was running relatively cool at Full load. In contract to its 400MHZ higher clocked brother and the 2.2GHZ P4, this promises lots of room for clock speeds.


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