Tuesday, June 7th 2011
AMD FX 8 Core and 4 Core Processor Systems Seen Running at E3
At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2011, AMD made its revival of the FX brand identifier official. The company steered clear of actually launching anything, but reran the audience through the AMD Bulldozer architecture, something AMD first did way back in August 2010 (yeah, it's been that long!). Knowing the audience needed a lot more than just that, AMD ran live demos of gaming PCs running the new FX series processors, again, without giving away any performance figures.
AMD first showed the final box art design. The box of the eight-core FX Black Edition processor is a classy metal canister, while the quad-core FX chip is housed in a more common-looking paperboard box, the design of which matches the one revealed in a box-art exposé back in March. The gaming rigs shown run the eight-core FX processor on an ASUS Crosshair V Formula motherboard, with Radeon HD 6900 series graphics, with an Eyefinity display setup.
An instance of next-generation AMD Overdrive software is running, displaying a surprisingly low 19°C temperature on all cores. This could be a glitch, probably because AOD doesn't support the sensor interface of the new FX chips properly, yet. The other thing AOD reveals is that each of the eight cores is running on its own BClk multiplier value, ranging from 1.00 GHz (5 x 200 MHz), to 3.20 GHz (16 x 200 MHz). The core voltage for all the cores is displayed as 1.4V, again we suspect a low-level interface glitch.
Source:
4Gamer.net
AMD first showed the final box art design. The box of the eight-core FX Black Edition processor is a classy metal canister, while the quad-core FX chip is housed in a more common-looking paperboard box, the design of which matches the one revealed in a box-art exposé back in March. The gaming rigs shown run the eight-core FX processor on an ASUS Crosshair V Formula motherboard, with Radeon HD 6900 series graphics, with an Eyefinity display setup.
178 Comments on AMD FX 8 Core and 4 Core Processor Systems Seen Running at E3
Instead, what we have this time is fairly good info on core design, a tidbit of memory support(1866 MHz), and backwards compatibility for existing sockets(although there are some things that won't be available on older chipsets).
This seems like a fairly standard launch to me, and a good one, at that. AMD and thier partners have shown they are listening to enthusiasts this time around, and while it would be nice to have Bulldozer bulldoze the competition, even at the top end, I am far more concerned, personally, with how the performance will fit in price points compared to the other options already on the market. If, say, for $200, and $300, they offer more @ stock performance levels, I will have no choice but to declare Bulldozer as a success...
I keep thinknig of the story of the tortise and the hare. Good ol' floppy ears was fast, for sure, but the slow and steady shellback won the race in the end.
That would allow for increased inter-molecular spacing, meaning that for a given volume of air the number of molecules and thus total energy, as held by the molecules, is lower; allowing for a greater gradient between the energy of the heated surface & the air, ie, the air would be essentially cooler.
So technically Strider's hypothesis, which although is very unlikely here, is plausible.;)
Under LH they do overclock very well, but that claim is just absurd unless you are counting cores by frequency. In that case a quad at 2.5Ghz makes it.
Bear in mind, though, that I'm just saying that what Strider proposed is plausible and not crazy as you guys seemed to suggest, but I'm not saying it is the case in this scenario.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-121841.html
www.geek.com/articles/chips/intel-predicts-10ghz-chips-by-2011-20000726/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4AMD were no-doubt just trying not to look bad by failing to match Intel's claims.
though it is unlikely that they had the aircon at a setting that would produce an ambient temp of 19°C or below.. just saying... why are we still arguing/disscussing this? o.0
BTW, to all those saying there's hype, it's not hype, it's suspense guys...
Suspense as in Lost, not hype as in Harry Potter movies.:nutkick:
The fans required to drop the pressure enough to significantly alter the internal temperature of a case would probably need to have impractically high strength and thus would probably be uncomfortably noisy.
It remains, however, physically possible to achieve such result.;)
That's the last I'll say on the matter.:)
I cant remember AMD saying anything about the Radeon 6 series trashing thier opponents, although they clearly knew that would be the case until nvidia releases 580/590 etc. why?
We can also see this with the Atom vs Zacate, it was a clear victory for AMD, but AMD choose to stay silent. why?
AMD has not hyped anything, its all but ones ego and bias against amd vs intel rubbish. By Saying the BD will be worse then Phenom is hilarious :laugh:
imho AMD is going to rape Intel (Multitasking, dunno about games or single) this round, the stepping B2 is to make sure it competes with intels incoming cpu`s (speed bumps mostly)... IB wont do much for intel next year, where amd BD has the advantage of major improvements for 2012....:nutkick: