If an 8c BD trounces a 6c Core i7 980x, expect it to be priced like one too ..... it only makes sense.
It is highly likely that AMD will have more demand than they have chips at first. This is another reason the price will be elevated for a while.... everyone remembers supply and demand...
AMD has a nearly impossible task.
They have a fraction of the R&D resources
Their processors spend the majority of their life competing against Intel processors with 2 times the transistor budget (since Intel is nearly always a die shrink ahead).
AMD struggles to get software, OS and Compiler...
I guess what is exciting to me about BD is that it is a major design architecture change from anything we have previously seen.
AMD has always had different pipelines for FPU and INT, and with BD they have extended this to completely different execution units. Intel on the other hand, has...
True. The mobile Intel products only deviated from the basic PPRO design off to P4 for a short time and then were back with Centrino. Going to Core 2 from Centrino was not really a new architecture, but rather a good enhancement to Centrino. Add in a few more tweaks, an IMC, and point to...
Actually, the theoretical formula says that frequency is exactly linear to power consumption and that voltage is only squared I believe .... so not only did I have that backwards, I also got it wrong.
Having said that, it still isn't true in real life. The equation P=C*F*V^2 is simplistic in...
While single threaded performance is still moderately important today, it is becoming more and more irrelevant. In designing BD, AMD has designed for a more parallel processing design within a minimum die space.
SMT adds more die space, and requires quite a bit more validation for the...
It does make me wonder if they should have opted for 3 channel or 4 channel memory. With 20 cores, are they going to have enough bandwidth to feed the beast? I realize that they have 2 banks of dual channel memory, but still ...... 20 cores?
Seems to me that a 2c BD would squarely compete with Llano. It is never a great idea to compete with yourself ;)
As far as IB vs BD, I wouldn't bet the farm that BD will outperform IB. Considering the deficit that K10.5 currently has against Sandybridge, it seems pretty optimistic to expect...
The die size of the 8c BD should be around 295mm^2 making it quite a bit larger than the 216mm^2 4c SB. It should also be unrivaled in performance on the desktop.
If a 6c BD were to be made available (it makes perfect sense to do this IMHO), it would likely be the same mask as the 8c with...
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