AMD has the amount of transistors that is in its Bulldozer-based processors used is not properly specified. According to a corrigendum to contain the high-end processors significantly fewer transistors than so far communicated.
According to the original giving of AMD had the FX-8150, Bulldozer-based processor with eight cores, a total of a whopping 2 billion transistors on board. The 32nm baked octacore would be more than twice as many transistors as the 45nm produced hexacore Phenom II X6 1100T, which is 940 million transistors. AMD has, however, made a mistake in his communication, reports AnandTech. The eight cores, or four modules of the Bulldozer counting is not 2 billion, but ‘only’ 1.2 billion transistors.
The other specifications of the who, such as the surface area of 315mm2, are correctly communicated. With the new number of transistors is the density of the FX octacore is more in line with that of other 32nm processors; the new density is approximately 3.8 million transistors per square millimeter. According to the old calculation that would be about 6,35 million per square millimeter have been a lot more than, for example, the 5.2 million of Intel’s new Sandy Bridge E processor.
