Friday, December 31st 2010
AMD FX Making a Comeback, to Challenge Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
Come 2011, and AMD is looking to give Intel its much awaited fightback at all market segments of consumer processors including the enthusiast-grade models. It will be made possible with AMD's new Bulldozer architecture, which gives the processor a much higher degree of inter-core integration, sharing of common components, higher instructions per clock-cycle, and Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). AMD's Bulldozer "Zambezi" desktop chips will be reportedly available in two ultra high-end SKUs: the 8-core AMD Vision Black FX, and performance segment AMD Vision Ultimate FX. AMD suspended the use of "FX" identifier with its Phenom and Phenom II series processors, because it couldn't compete in higher-end market segments, and didn't want to dilute the "FX" identifier. It was replaced with "Black Edition" to help identify models with unlocked BClk multipliers. AMD's Vision Black FX processors will be competitive with Intel's highest-end processors, including Extreme Edition models.
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DonanimHaber
155 Comments on AMD FX Making a Comeback, to Challenge Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
When GTX480/470 was out, people didn't say it was a failure, just that Nvidia needed time to perfect the design and they were right. But now, HD6900 is out and everyone, including AMD users, says it's a failure, I don't see how this can be fair. HD6900 design is not flawed by any means, this time though, AMD was taken by surprise and wasn't ambitious enough.
AMD doesn't need to be the king of the hill to be competitive, what matters the most is to deliver sufficient and efficient performance for less, AMD has always competed in pricing (of course there are exceptions). I don't care if Bulldozer can match a $1000 i7 980X but, let's say, it can give 75% of its performance for $600, then we have a winner.
The 6900's were not a failure imo, they just ended up performing under what the majority expected. The cards design and functionality are perfectly fine unlike the issues with Fermi, it's just that they failed to deliver on most peoples expectations, hence making it a failure to most.
Though I am very glad NVIDIA is still in the game full force with the fastest single GPU card in the industry with AMD holding the crown with its Dual GPU card. I am very happy with my Sapphire Radeon HD 6970’s performance, it obliterates my last setup 2 x HD 4870’s in CrossfireX. That said, I did expect the HD 6970 to be faster, but then again what can we expect with 40nm? AMD definitely did their best in this matter IMO…