After the none starter that last release was is there any reason to hope the refresh will be worth looking at? I was so disgusted with the poor performance of Bulldozer I got a 980BE cheap and plan on just overclocking that.
Mostly power improvements with piledriver. At most a 10% increase in perf. Steamroller and excavator are supposed to bring the major performance increases.
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"Steamroller and excavator are supposed to bring the major performance increases."
not if they stay with the current architecture, AMD is not moving forward, not even sideways...
thus my reasoning to pick up a cherry 1090t that does 4.5 gig on air with huge Northbridge clock(3200+).....
Yeah they need to do something with the architecture. The way it is now, they could shrink the Thuban core to 32 or even 28 nm add some cache, crank up the clock and have a faster part.
They aren't just shrinking it. Steamroller adds dedicated instruction decoders in each module, which seems to be part of the bottle neck right now (two modules share decoders at the moment.) They are making core changes that should increase performance quite a bit. Add that to the improvements that should come from Windows 8 and AMD is inching back. Power is my biggest concern at the moment. Bulldozer is extremely power hungry. If they can cure that and keep cool, then they may have an overclocking beast with Piledriver.
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They aren't just shrinking it. Steamroller adds dedicated instruction decoders in each module, which seems to be part of the bottle neck right now (two modules share decoders at the moment.) They are making core changes that should increase performance quite a bit. Add that to the improvements that should come from Windows 8 and AMD is inching back. Power is my biggest concern at the moment. Bulldozer is extremely power hungry. If they can cure that and keep cool, then they may have an overclocking beast with Piledriver.
That's certainly good to know. AMD was able to redo the Phenom I which was not a great performer. Hopefully they can get the architecture competitive with Intel.
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