Soleron on 30 August 2010
| NJ5 said: I wonder what clock rates Bulldozer will achieve. I keep reading it's supposed to be a high-frequency design with a longer pipeline (ala Pentium 4, but maybe not as exaggerated). Could we see perhaps near-5 GHz clock rates? |
I imagine consistently 4GHz on a single thread with turbo. Obviously when you get up to the 16-core versions it'll be closer to 2.5GHz.
I mean the existing AMD 6-core "Thuban" can get to 4GHz with OC and still use a reasonable amount of power, and that's with the current design on a tweaked 45nm (new low-k dielectric layer). So 32nm and this pipeline should allow consumer products to turbo to there.
