Phew, it's very hot here. Maybe because of dry season eh? Well, that's not very important, though. The more important thing is that AMD had released it's new legendary FX-family processors! Interested? Let's check it out!
This all-new AMD processors are using the newest architecture called Piledriver and clocked at 4.7 - 5GHz (FX9590) and 4.4 - 4.7GHz (FX9370) on. Piledriver also used in the newest Opteron which launched at launched in early December 2012. Products based upon Piledriver were first released on 15 May 2012 with the launch of the Trinity series of mobile APU. APUs aimed at desktops followed in early October 2012 with Piledriver-based FX-series CPUs released later in the month.
Piledriver itself are the successor of the previous architecture, Bulldozer. Hmm, so what's the differences between two of them? Basically, they're same, Piledriver uses the same 'module' design with main improvements to branch prediction and FPU/integer scheduling, along with a switch to hard edge flip-flops to improve power consumption. Practically, this resulted in clock speed gains of 8-10% and a performance increase of around 15% with similar power characteristics. Piledriver includes several improvements over the Bulldozer architecture, they are:
- Very high clock rates.
- Higher overclocking potential.
- Higher Instructions per clock.
- Lower temperatures. (hell yea!)
- Turbo Core 3.0.
- Faster IMC.
- Fixed hardware divider.
- Improved branch prediction and prefetching.
- Improved FPU and integer scheduling.
- Support for AVX1.1, FMA3, F16C, Bit Manipulation and Trailing Bit Manipulation instructions.
- Larger L1 Translation Lookaside Buffers and L2 efficiency improvements.
- Switch to hard edge flip-flops, allowing for a decrease in power consumption.
- Cyclos Resonant clock mesh technology.
Amazing right? But these awesomeness are only for those who have thick pockets –or thick wallets. You have to pay US$920 for one FX9590. But don't cry baby. You still can have "its" brother, FX9370 for US$346.
Okay, thanks for reading. Have a nice day! ^_^
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