Die-Shot: Next-Gen 8-Core AMD Orochi Bulldozer
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This is the eight-core version of Bulldozer.
In August AMD gave us a brief preview of what's to come from its next-generation technology known as Bulldozer.
Now we get to see one of the first early die-shots from an eight-core "Orochi" processor that's based on Bulldozer technology and built on the 32nm process.
Unlike Llano, this chip won't be a part of the Fusion initiative to integrate the GPU inside the die. But also unlike Llano, Bulldozer is based on next-generation AMD technology, while Llano shares its ties with Phenom CPUs.
Either way, we're expecting big things from AMD in 2011.
Source: X-bit labs
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All we need now is a simple benchmark and a price - here's the thing, if it can beat the 6 core i7-980 but costs less then you have an instant winner.
Price vs performance is King.
Trying to impress with higher clock speeds went out of fashion with P4's at 3.8Ghz.
Looks good
Smells good
Feels good
Tastes good
All we need now is a simple benchmark and a price - here's the thing, if it can beat the 6 core i7-980 but costs less then you have an instant winner.
Price vs performance is King.
Trying to impress with higher clock speeds went out of fashion with P4's at 3.8Ghz.
yeah i wanna overclock my wall too!
I want a benchmark too! And I want this to be $250 for the higher-end-ish chip.
And as long as higher clock speed equals performance but not a crazy spike in power usage/heat, then by all means, I'm in. So many new games still prefer high frequency dual core over a lower frequency quad. I don't even have a reason to upgrade from my e8400 @ 3.6. But I will take a quad core 3.6 (or 3+ and OC myself!).
...right. Because the only factor that determines performance is clock rate?
Um no that is 8 true cores.... you can clearly see 8 cores, with the caches off the the side of each 4 pair
Yep. Its their SMT, or CMT as they call it.
Nope. From the early reports, Bulldozer will not work in anything but AM3+ (AM3r2 or whatever they are calling it). But AM3 CPUs will work in AM3+/AM3r2
EDIT** Because I got down rated by someone who obviously has no idea about this topic. Here is a very reputable site that is frequented by engineers from AMD and Intel, alike.
http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/19576
I was down rated by a person who claims Intel can learn nothing from AMD.