AMD has its new high-end processorlijn released. In the first instance, the line-up from four models include two processors, according to AMD eight cores. AMD will focus on price to compete, so it seems.
AMD is for the new models switched on the 32nm-production process and at the same time, the chips built around a new architecture. The chips fit on motherboards with AM3+sockets. The processors contain the new Bulldozer cores and the first time that we who name encountered was in 2007. An important innovation is that the chips are built up using modules. Each module has two cores and which cores share L3 cache, L2 cache and floating point units. The now released FX processors have two, three, and four modules and are, therefore, quad-, hexa – and octacores.
Despite the move to the 32nm process is the diesize is not much smaller than that of the Thuban-hexacores, that on 45nm to be produced. The number of transistors is greatly increased, and now amounts to approximately 2 billion. For comparison: a Sandy Bridge quadcore of Intel has half the number of transistors and is a third smaller.
From the various reviews, including that of Tweakers.net shows that the processor performance for the price. In multithreaded benchmarks can the flagship FX-8150, the chancellor and performs only the Core i7-2600K is better. Especially in single threaded workloads, the gains over the previous generation, however, minimal or even absent. According to AMD performance processors with Windows 8 a lot better and Windows 7 is not yet optimized for the new architecture, but it looks anyway that the company again mainly on price will have to compete.
After Bulldozer wants AMD annually, the cores an upgrade to give time for a performance gains of 10 percent to 15 percent. The code names of the cores are to 2014 Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator.
Incidentally, puts AMD at the same time with the new chips a system for liquid cooling under his own name. The cooling system is manufactured by Asetek. The price of this is still unknown.
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FX-8150
3.6 GHz
3,9 GHz
4,2 GHz
8
8MB
125W
244 euro
FX-8120
3.1 GHz
3,4 GHz
4.0 GHz
8
8MB
95W / 125W
204 euro
FX-6100
3.3 GHz
3.6 GHz
3,9 GHz
6
6MB
95W
159 euro
FX-4100
3.6 GHz
3.7 GHz
3.8 GHz
4
4MB
95W
114 euro