It seems that AMD fans will have to wait a while, until summer, so they can get a new processor architecture, AMD Bulldozer, which will enter the market under the code name Zambezi. Expected a major change from the current Phenom Athlon II and II, as AMD has reworked the architecture almost from scratch and it is expected that its performance on the Core i7 offered by higher end.
AMD promises that Bulldozer will have native 8-core models, at least in the higher ranges. It has improved features such as Turbo mode (which includes a new version, 2.0) and implement new instruction sets, such as SSE4.2 or AVX, the latter one of the novelties of the second generation Intel Core.
Bulldozer, and Zambezi in particular, will AMD's philosophy of maintaining a set of models of microprocessors with attractive prices and good yields, perhaps not as high as the most powerful i7 but with value for money much more interesting. One of the most notable developments is the inclusion of a new socket, AM3 + with AM3 current developments.
Will some backward - which most likely will go the way of us living with AM2 and AM2 + years ago - but probably is a highly recommended update if you want to take advantage of new buses to the fullest. It also seems certain that we will have new chipsets, the AMD 900 of which we spoke. Seeing how it is moving the market and what AMD claims to have at hand, the new generation of processors will have all kinds of ranges, from the cheapest to the top of the range.
Focusing on the latter family hope to have models significantly higher than the current Phenom II X6, with around a 20-25% improvement and probably maintaining the current price, about 250-300 euros in more micro pointer but starting something below the barrier of 200 euros. These developments begin to appear in public for the forthcoming summer, probably closer to the fall than the summer months.
Track | Guru3D.
AMD promises that Bulldozer will have native 8-core models, at least in the higher ranges. It has improved features such as Turbo mode (which includes a new version, 2.0) and implement new instruction sets, such as SSE4.2 or AVX, the latter one of the novelties of the second generation Intel Core.
Bulldozer, and Zambezi in particular, will AMD's philosophy of maintaining a set of models of microprocessors with attractive prices and good yields, perhaps not as high as the most powerful i7 but with value for money much more interesting. One of the most notable developments is the inclusion of a new socket, AM3 + with AM3 current developments.
Will some backward - which most likely will go the way of us living with AM2 and AM2 + years ago - but probably is a highly recommended update if you want to take advantage of new buses to the fullest. It also seems certain that we will have new chipsets, the AMD 900 of which we spoke. Seeing how it is moving the market and what AMD claims to have at hand, the new generation of processors will have all kinds of ranges, from the cheapest to the top of the range.
Focusing on the latter family hope to have models significantly higher than the current Phenom II X6, with around a 20-25% improvement and probably maintaining the current price, about 250-300 euros in more micro pointer but starting something below the barrier of 200 euros. These developments begin to appear in public for the forthcoming summer, probably closer to the fall than the summer months.
Track | Guru3D.
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