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AMD FX-series Bulldozer chip pricing tips up
CHIP DESIGNER AMD will price its high-end FX series Bulldozer chips between $188 and $266.
Last week AMD announced that it is shipping server oriented 16-core Bulldozer chips to its high performance computing customers and now pricing and details for Bulldozer FX series chips have tipped up.
If CPU-World's pricing for AMD's range topping chips is accurate then the company seems to be back in the game, at least in terms of price. The FX-6100 series, the 'slowest' of the FX trio, is a 6-core chip running at 3.3GHz with the Turbo mode pushing that up to 3.9GHz. There are 6MB Level 2 and 8MB Level 3 caches and the thermal design power (TDP) is an impressive 95W.
AMD's two 8-core FX-8120 and FX-8150 chips run at 3.1GHz and 3.6GHz, respectively, with turbo frequencies cited as 4.0GHz and 4.2GHz, respectively. Both chips have 8MB Level 2 and Level 3 caches with a TDP of 125W. However the best part is the price.
CPU-World claims that AMD will charge $188 for the FX-6100, $221 for the FX-8120 and $266 for the FX-8150 for 1,000 unit trays. Retail pricing is expected to be a little higher than that.
Performance figures for AMD's FX-series chips are not out yet, but if the company can price its FX-series parts below $300, they seem attractive if you need six or eight cores without having to spend a lot of money. Of course AMD's Bulldozer architecture means that an 8-core chip is really four Bulldozer units, nevertheless things have finally become interesting again after a few years of Intel having had the upper hand against AMD. µ
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WHAT KIND OF CREATURE HAS 16 BRAINS?
YES A BULLDOZER.
NO, YOU IDIOT! NOTHING HAS 16 BRAINS!
A BULLDOZER DOESNT EVEN HAVE A BRAIN.
THEY SHOULD OF CALLED IT "MONSTER SMASH ROCK STOMPER" THAT IMPRESSES THE LADEEZ.
to 6+ GHz on air perhaps - additional factor of 2 -- gives equivalent to 20+ i7 cores.
Will see.
When is the FX 8150 releaseing? I dont have a server so Interlagos and Valencia are no use to me. Thats all i care about. :) I need me a Bulldozer chip. Its a cheaper upgrade than a whole new system.
It certainly looks like AMD has a winner in their Bulldozer architecture CPUs. Reports of up to 50% faster than the same clockspeed Phenom II CPUs should be great and with a good price to boot.
As i wrote here several times, by some unknown yet reason all AMD chips are very good at multiprocessing. They beat Intel by factor of 1.5. Go to equation dot com and grab the tests for all compilers including Intel own and do the test yourselves if you do not believe me. We have made such comparison in discussions in Anandtech couple months ago after the article about Bulldozer.
So its new 8-core chip, if it will keep this unique advantage, will be equivalent to 12-core Intel one. And what is great too - at a 1/2-1/3 price