| Sharky54 said: How is it different then what they use now? Also it would be more badass if they named it "Killdozer" |
Their first completely new chip since 2003. It's an unknown quantity, we can't speculate based on current performance or architecture like we can with everything that's just an upgrade of an older design.
What we do know is that:
- 8 cores for desktop, 16 cores for server, on 32nm. Backwards-compatible with current AM3 boards. The top bin will not exceed 140W power for 16 cores and the most efficient bin will not exceed 35W for 8 cores.
- It will have something a bit like Intel's Hyperthreading, where each "module" contains two integer cores but shares an FPU, cache and a decode stage. What this effectively means is that you get almost as much performance as two cores (+80% on one core) in only 5% more space than one core (a much higher gain than Intel's HT, which is +20% on one core typically and undercertain workloads it actually decreases performance, and also uses about 5% more space).
- As a conservative estimate (this is officially), the 16-core version will be 60% faster in highly threaded workloads than the upcoming 12-core Magny-Cours product.
