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
As you noticed that CPUs runs from 800MHz to 3.2GHz so that means that they are not at full 100% as all together, so that 20°C is in normal range then!
This CPUs are scalable, maybe if you turn off two and overclock to 4GHz or more, that should be fun...:laugh:
IIRC, Btarunr posted a news from Spire cases where it showed the motherboard within the case. Thing is it was mounted pretty much as this cooler: crookedly. I joked about it and someone from Spire replied and said something like: "We're not very good at assembling" (not exactly this, but close). That made me laugh, hehe :roll:
I'm sure there are other instances as well.
AMD, you're doing a great job convincing us... that Bulldozer is going be be even worse than Phenom, and you're marketing the crap out of it to cover up the fact that you can't make competitive CPUs anymore.
the temps and volts are probably the result of software incompatability with the program displaying them. maybe on purpose?
still want benchies...
That isn't happening now. The "FX" name first became public via leaks, AMD hasn't commented on performance to the public till now. When talking about the Bulldozer architecture, AMD avoided claiming it to be the fastest processor architecture, or something that will be the fastest in the market.
If AMD was confident that FX will lead, you can bet your bottom penny that they would have launched FX months ago, or would have made benchmarks public.
I'll be very pissed off if AMD has another fail like the Gen 1 Phenom.
If they do I'm most likely going to Intel.
If this "FX" Chip was all that and a bag of Chips I would think AMD would be handing them out to be test by every one ! Not just to the chines ! This is JMHO ! I highly doubt that there "FX" Chip will be able to hold a candle to Ivy ! BD ='s Big Disappointment !
I figure this bulldozer will be on par with Sandy. Maybe just a tad slower but for a better price and thats me being optimistic. All one has to do is look at the price and see the FX for what it is.
The sensors read wrong!
- Every super car is fast, some of them are faster than others (SB vs Phenom II)
- Price does not scale with performance (old i7 vs SB)
- Some people like Porsche and some Ferrari even if they know that Ferreri is faster (AMD vs Intel)
- With speed over 200+ Mph performance does not make any difference for the driver (3,5GHz+)
To summarize it:
I will buy Bulldozer instead Sandy Bridge even if it will be slower just because I like Porsche :D