AMD’s Roadmap Through 2014
Based on where Bulldozer sits today, it’s fairly evident that AMD didn’t realize the breadth of its goals for this architecture. However, the company says it’s on a cadence to produce a new version of the Bulldozer core every year.
Bear in mind that this isn’t a cadence in the same sense as Intel’s, where AMD is committing to a major architectural revision, a manufacturing node advancement, then another architectural revision. Rather, it’s simply predicting a 10 to 15 percent performance increase per core with each successive step via a combination of IPC, power, timing, and frequency increases.
In 2012, the company plans to launch Piledriver, which is expected to incorporate a number of IPC- and power-oriented improvements to the architecture. The first product planned with Piledriver’s enhancements is AMD’s Trinity APU, which we already saw running at IDF. Later, it’ll become a 32 nm-based CPU successor to today’s Zambezi desktop incarnation. How will Piledriver get its projected 10 to 15 percent speed up? AMD says one-third will come from IPC improvements like structure size increases (so, three to five percent) and two-thirds will come from power optimizations that reduce consumption, enabling higher frequencies at a constant TDP (another six to 10 percent).
AMD won’t provide any specifics on how it intends to carve out that additional 10 to 15 percent in the Steamroller or Excavator designs, maintaining only that it sees the potential and is confident the performance is there.
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yeah finaly, now i'll read it
nOT Bad AMd!
Been so long and i'm kinda sad.
Not many surprises but I've been waiting for a long, long time for this. I hope this is just the first step to a more competitive AMD.
At least its almost as good as Nehalem.
Dissapointing. Predicted it ages ago though. PII X6 is a better value.
As I expected - failure.
I see the guys from the BD Rumors are here. As many others are, I'm disappointed.
for the gaming community this is a FLOP.
FX-4100 looks like a good alternative to the 955BE. Same price, higher clock, and lower power profile.
Why bring back the FX brand for something like this?
What I learned: the 2.5 year old i7-920 is still a beast.
This is sad, I'm still getting it as its my only option i'm getting a 8120 Toms why did you only review a 8150 when they have all of them on other sites?
What I've learned is...AMD=FAIL!!!!!
As I said before, it won't come close to beating Intel in performance or price. Now let's hear the fanboys whine.
Buh-bye AMD, buh-bye!
Looks like solid chips, but I'll admit that the price point isn't low enough to compete in the gaming world with Intel.
I am rather curious how the FX-4100 will stack up against the current Phenom II X4 chips.
And even though the FX is a slight disappointment, I am rather impressed by the Windows 8 benchmarks. Having said that, by the time Windows 8 is ready for release I'm sure Intel will have an even better solution.
So Bulldozer is AMD's version of NetBurst?
As I said before, it won't come close to beating Intel in performance or price. Now let's hear the fanboys whine.
Everyone should cry, even the Intel fanboys, this is bad news for everyone, now Intel has absolutely no incentive to lower prices or accelerate Ivy Bridge.
Everyone should cry, even the Intel fanboys, this is bad news for everyone, now Intel has absolutely no incentive to lower prices or accelerate Ivy Bridge.
Intel shouldn't lower prices, they should raise them. I'll gladly pay more to reward competent product development and nothing would please me more than AMD going down in flames for all their flops in the past 5 years. Intel doesn't need AMD to push them forward.
As I said before, it won't come close to beating Intel in performance or price. Now let's hear the fanboys whine.
Waaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Bah, well, been with AMD since my first pc like 8 years ago...Guess I'll be going intel for the first time ever especially since I can get an overkill cpu for just 300 bucks. Hell that's how much I payed for my phenom II 955...