AMD kills off big cores, Kaveri, Steamroller, and Excavator
Analysis: No good words to describe this latest debacle
Updated: Remember when SemiAccurate said that Kaveri was going to be ‘reevaluated’ and slipped to 2014?
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AMD’s Bulldozer core compared with Piledriver
Core vs core vs the promised numbers
Fortunately for AMD, after reviewing both the Piledriver based A10-5800K and the Piledriver infused FX-8350 over the past few months, I can safely say that Piledriver is faster than Bulldozer.
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A brief look at AMD’s Steamroller core
Hot Chips 24: Big numbers, plausible but vague details
At Hot Chips 24, AMD’s Mark Papermaster gave a keynote speech that had a few technical tidbits in it.
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Trinity has an older GPU, new power management
Architecture part 3: GPU, power controller, and more
By the time we look at the GPU itself, it is, well, a bit underwhelming, but that is about what you would expect from the spiritual successor to integrated graphics.
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Trinity has a brain and a queue
Archtecture part 2: The UNB, SRQ, and other gluey bits
Moving out a step, we get to the Unfied North Bridge (UNB).
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Trinity is more than the sum of its parts
Architecture part 1: The core improvement
AMD’s Trinity CPU is one mutt of a chip, with paradigms taken from a lot of recent CPUs.
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Commentary: FX Marketing
Trading enthusiast mind share for consumer sales
AMD’s marketing has been the center of much community ire as of late.
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Bulldozer doesn’t have just a single problem
Part 2: More cuts, the total stands at 1000
Bulldozer is finally here, and the numbers all show that it isn’t going to to be taking any performance crowns.
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Why did Bulldozer underwhelm?
Part 1: Death by 1000 cuts, not a single gun shot
Bulldozer is finally here, and the numbers all show that it isn’t going to to be taking any performance crowns.
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Bulldozer has an evolutionary uncore
A look at the northbridge and other bits
A few days ago, we took a look at the Bulldozer core architecture, now lets walk through the rest of the chip.
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Countdown to FX
And what a countdown it was...
It’s been a long time coming for AMD’s FX CPU and as we close in on the rumoured launch the mood seems to be somewhere between, “How can it be worse than the 1100T X6?” and, “is this worse than the Phenom launch?”
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Exclusive: A look at the Bulldozer architecture
Hot Chips 23: The cores in all their glory (Updated)
Bulldozer is one of those industry legends, an architecture that has grown far beyond anything the silicon could ever be.
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AMD sets clock speed world record with Bulldozer
Geek on geek action in Austin
About two weeks ago, AMD held a ‘top sekrit’ Bulldozer overclocking event in Austin and smashed a few world records.
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Bulldozer finally shipped last week
What caused all the slips?
What is going on with AMD’s Bulldozer and why did it only ship last week?
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Exclusive: unannounced joint AMD Samsung project pictured
We are going to get letters for this.......
Running around AMD HQ yesterday, you get to occasionally see some things you probably shouldn’t be allowed to know about.
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