Tuesday, April 10th 2012
Trinity (Piledriver) Integer/FP Performance Higher Than Bulldozer, Clock-for-Clock
AMD's upcoming "Trinity" family of desktop and mobile accelerated processing units (APUs) will use up to four x86-64 cores based on the company's newest CPU architecture, codenamed "Piledriver". AMD conservatively estimated performance/clock improvements over current-generation "Bulldozer" architecture, with Piledriver. Citavia put next-generation A10-5800K, and A8-4500M "Trinity" desktop and notebook APUs, and pitted them against several currently-launched processors, from both AMD and Intel.
It found integer and floating-point performance increases clock-for-clock, against Bulldozer-based FX-8150. The benchmark is not multi-threaded, and hence gives us a fair idea of the per core performance. On a rather disturbing note, the performance-per-GHz figures of Piledriver are trailing far behind K12 architecture (Llano, A8-3850), let alone competitive architectures from Intel.
Source:
Expreview
It found integer and floating-point performance increases clock-for-clock, against Bulldozer-based FX-8150. The benchmark is not multi-threaded, and hence gives us a fair idea of the per core performance. On a rather disturbing note, the performance-per-GHz figures of Piledriver are trailing far behind K12 architecture (Llano, A8-3850), let alone competitive architectures from Intel.
115 Comments on Trinity (Piledriver) Integer/FP Performance Higher Than Bulldozer, Clock-for-Clock
Coudl it be that you "are fail", reading comprehension problems ?
yes yes ,be time yet tho:rolleyes:
And the 65w version will be a great chip for the general public, especially when GPU acceleration becomes more common.
and im talking mobile here, an amd phenom II n660 from 2010 is faster than any dual core llano from 2011 by a mile, it runs at 3ghz on 35watt, thats just amazing
idk what amd was thinking but they sure should do some models with better cpu and less gpu for cases were discrete are to be used
and idk what is the case with amd but it almost seems like 32nm didnt bring any improvements other than smaller die size, amds 45nm seems by far superior if they can do 35watt with 3ghz on a mobile chip
The ~1.5 year old Core i5-2500K is "spanking" yet unreleased A10-5800K.If you read the article and not just the title, we really do know how Piledriver is going to perform (-1% to +8% that of Bulldozer, at single-threaded tests).
Extending it further, we can possibly add a few percent more once L3 cache is included, and higher clocks are applied, in a Vishera CPU. That's all that was ever going to happen here boys and girls; that's enough to push overall performance into the overclocked i5-2500K range or stock i7-2600 range.
Maybe add another 2-5% increase if Vishera uses quad channel memory.
As for the usual trolling and troll-ish comments:
I understand that you all want to feel important and sound like you're being very expert and knowledgeable by repeating incendiary comments that you've read elsewhere either written by people you think are intelligent or because you thought it sounded cool and made you sound cool. But what's the point of the useless 'fail' textual noise? You're referencing a fail based on the work and decisions of many people who were fired, and no longer work for AMD. Quit it with all the false hurt, and overblown outrage at a cpu that you wouldn't have bought even if it had originally matched Intel.
As Aquinas said, the real question is how future iterations of this core will perform once the integer cores and iGPU are fully integrated with each other. AMD chose, for better or worse, a long term plan, that may or may not be fruitful for them, but it looks very promising, even if it didn't turn out promising for the careers of many of the people responsible.
I will say this again, APU's are excellent for Laptops, but they are just not that great for PC's. Once you remove the need for the iGPU, you're just left with an underperforming CPU.
So what I mean whatever is the CPU performance that means nothing without GPU power. If you add GPU near Intel, that will results thicker and warmer case with louder cooling and cost more.