![]() I don’t think anyone expected it to compete with the top Ivy Bridge CPU (i7 3770), but it seems to match up quite well with the i5 3570K. Here we start to see what part of the market AMD is aiming for. The FX-8350 even shows pretty strong FPS gains over the FX-8150 when paired with an HD 7970 GPU. If you can find an application that does take advantage of multi-threading though, AMD does well for itself. We’ll explore performance obviously (that’s why you’re here after all!), but AMD of course supplied some numbers of their own for us to check out.ĪMD has long focused on multi-threaded computing, mostly because single threaded performance is where Intel dominates currently. Indeed, we’re reviewing Piledriver on the same 990FX-based Crosshair V Formula Bulldozer was reviewed on. The good part for people that already have 9-series chipset boards is that they will be keeping the same chipsets (and AM3+ socket) for Piledriver. In heavily multi-threaded loads, that clockspeed increase is where a large chunk of Piledriver’s estimated performance gain of (up to) 15% over Bulldozer comes from. The boost clock is the same as Bulldozer, but that base clock is a 400 MHz gain, 11% over Bulldozer. Piledriver weighs in at 4.0 GHz base clock on all cores and 4.2 GHz boost in lightly threaded loads. Piledriver ImprovementsĪnother enhancement not mentioned yet is the clockspeed increase. As I mentioned, it’s an evolutionary step. It’s not a die shrink, nor is it a new architecture. Piledriver Core DetailsĪMD basically took a little bit here and a little bit there, with optimizations over pretty much the entire CPU. Things are different on the AMD side of the fence now. Traditionally, before Bulldozer (and currently on Intel CPUs), a core was one integer core and one floating point core. A module consists of two integer cores and one floating point core, so when AMD references a “core”, that mean an integer core. Like Bulldozer before it, the Piledriver CPU (code named Vishera) is composed of two, three and four module CPUs. Vishera Explored – What’s New in Piledriver? How large of a step forward is Piledriver? We’re here to show you! They are an evolutionary step from AMD’s oft-maligned Bulldozer processors released just over a year ago. ![]() ![]() Today AMD is releasing their new FX processors. ![]()
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