AMD FX Processor Takes Guinness World Record

[Matthias2437]

I think that 4.5 will be easily accomplished with decent cooling on these chips, I say that because I have my 1090t @ 4.1 with a corsair H70, perfectly stable. I also think that this will far out perform the sb chips in things like rendering because 8 true cores ARE better then 4 cores and 8 threads. This will be a big hit for AMD and at the price point they are releasing them it could bring them back and make them a serious contender with Intel in performance for all things from gaming to multi-threaded applications.

 

[I Hunta x]

EDIT, ignore what was here as im mistaken

 

[GuyIncognito]

I'm not, honest

Seriously though, If Bulldozer comes out on top and beats Sandy Bridge then fair play to AMD hats off to them.

Looking at the potential MSRP, I'm guessing they will not come out on TOP. Maybe, they will be "OK" in terms of price/performance, though. Also, since each module has one FPU, I wouldn't expect these to be too impressive in FPU intensive stuff.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2108829/amd-series-bulldozer-chip-pricing-tips

http://www.extremetech.com/computin...cing-revealed-a-lot-cheaper-than-sandy-bridge

 

[Ya93sin]

It's nice that you can clock it high on LN2, or liquid helium, but I wonder what the typical user gets on air or water (I remember seeing 5GHz somewhere, don't remember clearly).

Anyway, Intel's real competition at the moment seems to be itself, hence the delaying of Ivy Bridge due to lack of demand. Let's hope AMD can change that, because it means lower prices for all ;D

This is why I bought a 990fx MB in my last build..... can't wait for those chips to be released.

Oh are you doing Liquid Helium overclocking too?

 

[hmmblah]

I think that 4.5 will be easily accomplished with decent cooling on these chips, I say that because I have my 1090t @ 4.1 with a corsair H70, perfectly stable. I also think that this will far out perform the sb chips in things like rendering because 8 true cores ARE better then 4 cores and 8 threads. This will be a big hit for AMD and at the price point they are releasing them it could bring them back and make them a serious contender with Intel in performance for all things from gaming to multi-threaded applications.

BD doesn't use 8 true cores either.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4767/pricing-revealed-for-first-amd-bulldozer-fx-chips

remember that Bulldozer's architecture is such that a "dual-core" CPU is actually one core with two copies of several hardware features - the CPU is visible to the OS as two cores, but physically each of AMD's cores is somewhere in between Intel's HyperThreading implementation and a "true" dual-core design

More info:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2872

 

[TechSmart]

I think there are people who are 'fanboys' or 'fangirls' or w/e the phrase is about Intel and dont like or wouldnt like to see an AMD processor be better than an Intel processor.

 

[GuyIncognito]

I think there are people who are 'fanboys' or 'fangirls' or w/e the phrase is about Intel and dont like or wouldnt like to see an AMD processor be better than an Intel processor.

It will fit my mobo (asus m4a89) and the cpu costs only a bit more than a good sandy bridge mobo (say asus p8z68), not to mention a cpu+mobo combo. That makes it better for me. However, I'm not betting on the benchmarks being exceptional.

 

[Matthias2437]

It's nice that you can clock it high on LN2, or liquid helium, but I wonder what the typical user gets on air or water (I remember seeing 5GHz somewhere, don't remember clearly).

Anyway, Intel's real competition at the moment seems to be itself, hence the delaying of Ivy Bridge due to lack of demand. Let's hope AMD can change that, because it means lower prices for all ;D

Oh are you doing Liquid Helium overclocking too?

No, but if it can get that high on LH cooling then it bodes very well for its overclocking potential without extreme cooling. Logic, hah.

 

[hmmblah]

I think there are people who are 'fanboys' or 'fangirls' or w/e the phrase is about Intel and dont like or wouldnt like to see an AMD processor be better than an Intel processor.

You get that with everything in life. I myself prefer AMD, but all my rigs short of my home server are Intel. I have my preferences, but I still buy what is best for my needs.

I'm expecting BD to be very disappointing. Hopefully I'm wrong though and am pleasantly surprised instead.

 

[Matthias2437]

BD doesn't use 8 true cores either.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4767/pricing-revealed-for-first-amd-bulldozer-fx-chips

More info:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2872

Oh, I hadn't read up on the architecture in a while, thank you for the link! Still though from what I read in that it still looks that the architecture of this will perform better then a basic hyper threading architecture. But we wont really know the performance until they are released I guess, it would just be nice to see AMD back at the top, or at least competitive.

 

[TechSmart]

You get that with everything in life. I myself prefer AMD, but all my rigs short of my home server are Intel. I have my preferences, but I still buy what is best for my needs.

I'm expecting BD to be very disappointing. Hopefully I'm wrong though and am pleasantly surprised instead.

I wasn't saying anyone in particular, but there does seem to be some 'fans' who dont seem to want BD to be good or beat SB on the basis they are in lvoe with intel and their set up doesnt support AMD.

 

[Ya93sin]

No, but if it can get that high on LH cooling then it bodes very well for its overclocking potential without extreme cooling. Logic, hah.

You want decent performance as well, otherwise clock speeds are not relevant anymore. A Celeron at 8GHz sounds good, but what's the performance like?

Bulldozer should just about match a 2600K. Initially anyway.

 

[peircevongoth12]

I just realy hope BD does good. Some good competition is good for us consumers.

 

[hmmblah]

You want decent performance as well, otherwise clock speeds are not relevant anymore. A Celeron at 8GHz sounds good, but what's the performance like?

Bulldozer should just about match a 2600K. Initially anyway.

Let's hope so. I'd love a good excuse to upgrade my main rig from an i7 930 to something better in the spring time and going AMD again would be interesting. I'm most interested in F@H performance.

I just realy hope BD does good. Some good competition is good for us consumers.

Definitely

 

[AshleyColes]

How long do you think it will be before we see 10ghz?

 

[Ya93sin]

How long do you think it will be before we see 10ghz?

For the average user? Probably never for silicone based CPUs

For the enthusiast with liquid helium? Could be whenever

 

[JesseLactin]

Let's hope so. I'd love a good excuse to upgrade my main rig from an i7 930 to something better in the spring time and going AMD again would be interesting. I'm most interested in F@H performance.

Me too

They'll need to sell me on their product. I don't have an AM3+ board. If the FAH performance is great, I'll get one. Otherwise, oh well. I don't know how may people know this, but Intel is releasing a new SB CPU. (i7 2700K). AMD may be off their game.

 

[mayhem]

Good on them. about time there was a shift in the market again but for how long.

 

[Scoob]

I'd like to see AMD give Intel a bit of a scare with Bulldozer having 25/2600k beating performance at a lower price-point - that'd really shake the market up for sure, equalling better prices for us one would hope.

Still, a Bulldozer @ 8.blah on DICE...impressive, but how does it really relate to what a home user would get. After all, the previous record holder @ 8.slightly-less-than-blah was a Celeron chip...so Bulldozer overclocks slightly better than a Celeron...they should use that in their marketing, they'd fly off the shelves...

Back to a more serious note, the overclock is impressive regardless of how it's been achieved, however we still don't really know what sort of performance per-mhz to expect from BD, or how well its multi-threads with its 8 "cores" that aren't quite complete cores. I remember reading some of the early reports on BD where they spoke about it being able to apply multiple cores to work on a single thread, which got me excited, but I've not heard more on that so maybe it was a mistake.

Really hope AMD surprise us with this chip, it'll give me options come Ivy B. maybe...

Scoob.

 

[Bungral]

By the way.... This frequency was only hit with 2 cores active.