Key Apple Chip Designer Jim Keller Returns to AMD

[Mad-B-One]

Ummm...get your facts straight. The FX 8150 has 4 physical cores with another 4 logical cores.

Edit: Never mind, I stand corrected.

The common missconception comes from the Intel i7. That one has 4 real cores only and hyperthreading which gives it virtual 8 cores. AMD though do not use hyperthreading and all their shown cores are true cores. You can actually get 16-core processors from AMD if you need and you are willing to spend about $1500 on a processor.
The other missconception is that not all FX processors are octocores. FX 6xxx are hexacores, FX 4xxx are quadcores. Also, their Vision chips with integrated graphics are very similar in nomenclature making it even more confusing.

 

[magbarn]

The common missconception comes from the Intel i7. That one has 4 real cores only and hyperthreading which gives it virtual 8 cores. AMD though do not use hyperthreading and all their shown cores are true cores. You can actually get 16-core processors from AMD if you need and you are willing to spend about $1500 on a processor.
The other missconception is that not all FX processors are octocores. FX 6xxx are hexacores, FX 4xxx are quadcores. Also, their Vision chips with integrated graphics are very similar in nomenclature making it even more confusing.

Too bad each true core has only about 50% the performance of an IB core. Really hope AMD can either dump or really improve BD architecture. When AMD really needed a 'Conroe' type of chip release, they instead make their own 'P4'!

 

[Mad-B-One]

Too bad each true core has only about 50% the performance of an IB core. Really hope AMD can either dump or really improve BD architecture. When AMD really needed a 'Conroe' type of chip release, they instead make their own 'P4'!

Yea, the performance just shocked me. I built my current system about a year ago. I opted for the Phenom II 1100T - their best performing CPU. Back then, the only ones faster were the top-end i7 for about twice the money. Since I have a 990X chipset with AM3+ socket, my hopes rely on FX 8350. The design around the cores itself changed quite a bit with supposedly better prefetch, improved cache, and many other changes. I think the cores themselves are okay and it is the rest of the chip design which didn't work out that well. I mean, even the Phenom was faster - tells me that the core itself must work just fine.

 

[macuser1232]

Do you think AMD sales will boost?