Sunday, December 25th 2011
'Locked' AMD Zambezi Silicon Being Branded As New Phenom II Line
Besides the fact that they are carved out of the same piece of silicon by disabling components, all AMD FX series processors, from the quad-core FX-4000 series, to the eight-core FX-8000 series have one thing in common: they're all "unlocked", meaning they have an upwards-unlocked base-clock multiplier, which makes overclocking them a whole lot easier. Take that away and what do you get? A new Phenom II processor line. That's right, it is learned that AMD has a new line of Phenom II processors, eight-core for now, that are being carved out of the 32 nm Zambezi silicon.
Intuitively branded within the new Phenom II X8 and existing Phenom II X6 markers, these chips feature relatively lower clock speeds, meaning they will be priced low, competitive with Intel's sub-$200 Core i3 and Core i5 processors. AMD will also tinker with Zambezi's caches. The new chips came to light when some motherboard manufacturers leaked them on CPU support lists of certain motherboards, on their websites. For now we're getting to hear about two eight-core models, the 2.40 GHz Phenom II X8 2420, and 3.00 GHz Phenom II X8 3020; and two six-core models, the 2.50 GHz Phenom II X6 2520, and 2.80 GHz Phenom II X6 2820. Relevant details are tabled below. It beats us why AMD didn't take the opportunity (new silicon) to label these "Phenom III".
Source:
Inpai.com.cn
Intuitively branded within the new Phenom II X8 and existing Phenom II X6 markers, these chips feature relatively lower clock speeds, meaning they will be priced low, competitive with Intel's sub-$200 Core i3 and Core i5 processors. AMD will also tinker with Zambezi's caches. The new chips came to light when some motherboard manufacturers leaked them on CPU support lists of certain motherboards, on their websites. For now we're getting to hear about two eight-core models, the 2.40 GHz Phenom II X8 2420, and 3.00 GHz Phenom II X8 3020; and two six-core models, the 2.50 GHz Phenom II X6 2520, and 2.80 GHz Phenom II X6 2820. Relevant details are tabled below. It beats us why AMD didn't take the opportunity (new silicon) to label these "Phenom III".
64 Comments on 'Locked' AMD Zambezi Silicon Being Branded As New Phenom II Line
Even your OWN xbitlabs review doesnt support your wild claims:
Synthetic review only: FX 8150 vs Phenom II X6 1100T (xbitlabs.com)
SYS Mark 2012, FX-8150 wins
SYS Mark 2012 Office Productivity, FX-8150 wins
SYS Mark 2012, Media Creation, FX-8150 wins,
SYS Mark 2012, Web Development, Phenom II X6 1100T wins
SYS Mark 2012 Data/Financial analysis, FX-8150 wins
SYS Mark 2012 3D Modelling, Phenom II X6 1100T wins
SYS Mark 2012 System Management, FX-8150 wins
WinRar, FX-8150 wins
Itunes AAC encoding, FX-8150 wins
Photoshop, FX-8150 wins
Mathematic, Phenom X6 1100T wins
Photoshop, FX-8150 wins
x264 Encoding - 1 pass , Phenom II X6 1100T wins
x264 Encoding - 2pass, FX-8150 wins
3Dmax 2011 computing, FX-8150 wins
3DMax 2011 rendering, FX-8150 wins
Blender rendering, FX-8150 wins
According to your OWN xbitlabs review, out of 17 synthetic tests Bulldozer FX-8150 beats the Phenom II X6 1100T in 13 tests.
Results:
FX-8150 wins - 13
Phenom II X6 1100T wins - 4
Verdict. Bulldozer may sucks overall, but in synthetic tests the FX-8150 destroys the Phenom II X6 1100T (according to both xbitlabs and Techspot)
If you want to stick directly to the exact topic, if AMD plans on marketting Zambezi Silicon as Phenom II's, I think it's shady as fuck. They should market it as Phenom III if anything. A Thuban-based Phenom II X6 will still beat a Zambezi-based Phenom II X6 in per-thread performance, so AMD will be selling people lower performance products as new higher-performance ones.
On to the subject though, its magical beans your getting sold here....Not happening, the "Phenom II x8" does not exist.And that's just on this thread.....your chasing a unicorn, then berating the guy that owns the stable because the unicorn needs brushed down.
The stable guy knows there is no such thing as a unicorn...just some madman jumping up and down in a puddle shouting about it.
Stop giving AMD a hard time for something that's not real.
Is what I said. If they are not, then it's irrelevant.
Bazinga!
Sorry AMD but I got excited when I first heard about Phenom II x8 CPU's coming out. I thought maybe they were going to continue with the K10.1(?) or whatever the PII architecture is called. You know continue where they left off with the hexacores. Die shrink, add two more cores, maybe even up the clocks even closer to 4GHz... But nope instead we get crippled cripples.
AMD Phenom II X8 2420 Seems to have PileDriver’s Specs
lenzfire.com/2012/01/amd-phenom-ii-x8-2420-seems-to-have-piledrivers-specs-83282/
The problem here is in the ignorance and stupidity of the media and end users like us. VR-Zone is being retarded, showing a screenshot of a Bulldozer based Stepping B0 CPU on an archaic BIOS (with archaic microcode) that misreads L1 cache.
There will never be a Phenom II X8 CPU, I've said a hundred times now that ECS was being stupid when they listed support for early BD engineering samples in late April/May 2011 before it was decided to use "FX" as a series name for these CPUs.