Monday, April 15th 2013
AMD Works on Next TWKR Chip Based on Vishera
AMD is apparently working on its second CPU for extreme overclocking, since the nearly four-year old Phenom II Black Edition TWKR 42. Being referred to as "Centurion FX," the chip is said to be based on the eight-core FX "Vishera" silicon, featuring an unlocked multiplier, but born out of some extremely careful chip selection by AMD. How careful you ask? For starters, these chips should be capable of running at 5.00 GHz with just air-cooling, with potential for more, on better cooling.
If the TWKR 42 is anything to go by, Centurion FX should be made specifically for extreme overclockers looking for clock-speed and multi-core performance records, the chip should come with rather low clock speed, and unlocked multiplers, so overclockers could tweak it themselves. The chips should cost four times the average FX-8350, nearing $800, which is "affordable," considering the four-figure prices some of the golden Core i7 K-series Ivy Bridge chips command on online marketplaces.
Source:
Hexus.net
If the TWKR 42 is anything to go by, Centurion FX should be made specifically for extreme overclockers looking for clock-speed and multi-core performance records, the chip should come with rather low clock speed, and unlocked multiplers, so overclockers could tweak it themselves. The chips should cost four times the average FX-8350, nearing $800, which is "affordable," considering the four-figure prices some of the golden Core i7 K-series Ivy Bridge chips command on online marketplaces.
35 Comments on AMD Works on Next TWKR Chip Based on Vishera
Also I'd disagree because in my opinion AMD is already price competitive: heavy-threaded software, Vishera is a great value; most games and light-threaded software, FX stands with a so-so but doesn't disappoint.
Then I was hopeful of Vishera (while an improvement, still not game-changer).
Having learned from this, I'm a bit sceptical about Steamroller....No it doesn't. Even the review you've quuoted clearly shows this.
And when it come to gaming, things are really bad.
So far I find no reason to upgrade from my Phenon II 955.
I've got AM3+ mobo, and I'm still waiting for worthy upgrade.
Let's make one thing clear here.
I really want AMD to succeed ! We need it for fair competition in desktop high end !
Intel is already half asleep because lack of competition.
(I remember benches showing quads running up to 75% faster than dual cores in this game).
That said, this upcoming chip has a very difficult wall ahead of it in the $530 i7-3930k.
I'm also wondering what the TDP will be like at 5GHz. Should be interesting.
I can tell you this much right now this chip is WAY better then my old 965 was, it beats it in every gaming benchmark i ran with it and in some games where it uses most of the 8350 cores it almost doubled in FPS, like it did in Metro 2033, was a HUGE difference.
Then we come to every day use like Converting video files or some sort of compression program, you know things that you would do every day sort stuff and my 8350 decimates my 965, also beats out my 1055T with ease, and then crushes my I7 940 when its fully working hard, it makes all my other CPU's here look slow.
I can honestly say I think my 8350 would beat out my m8s 2600K in most of the things we do every day.
Once you get all the cores working hard and cranked up its a dam fast CPU :D
this wont have any difficulty with anything as this is only meant for overclocking and breaking records.
bta already posted that there is a high chance this will be made available in very limited quantities.
Either way, for what it's sweet, it's pretty sweet... Maybe someone will break the 9GHz record with one of them...
Then again, since Vishera refresh (that'll probably have a turbo clock of up to 4,5GHz) is coming in about 2 months... for 1/4 of the price... ...so yeah.