'Locked' AMD Zambezi Silicon Being Branded As New Phenom II Line

[peja81]

Besides the fact that they are carved out of the same piece of silicon by disabling components, all AMD FX series processors, from the quad-core FX-4000 series, to the eight-core FX-8000 series have one thing in common: they're all "unlocked", meaning they have an upwards-unlocked base-clock multiplier, which makes overclocking them a whole lot easier. Take that away and what do you get? A new Phenom II processor line. That's right, it is learned that AMD has a new line of Phenom II processors, eight-core for now, that are being carved out of the 32 nm Zambezi silicon.

Intuitively branded within the new Phenom II X8 and existing Phenom II X6 markers, these chips feature relatively lower clock speeds, meaning they will be priced low, competitive with Intel's sub-$200 Core i3 and Core i5 processors. AMD will also tinker with Zambezi's caches. The new chips came to light when some motherboard manufacturers leaked them on CPU support lists of certain motherboards, on their websites. For now we're getting to hear about two eight-core models, the 2.40 GHz Phenom II X8 2420, and 3.00 GHz Phenom II X8 3020; and two six-core models, the 2.50 GHz Phenom II X6 2520, and 2.80 GHz Phenom II X6 2820. Relevant details are tabled below. It beats us why AMD didn't take the opportunity (new silicon) to label these "Phenom III".

http://www.techpowerup.com/157432/-Locked-AMD-Zambezi-Silicon-Being-Branded-As-New-Phenom-II-Line.html

 

[Chabex]

Da, ako je ovo tačno onda će AMD lepo zaokružiti svoju lošu ponudu sa 32nm CPU-ima. Kod FX-ova je situacija malo bolja posle OC-a a ovde kako će izgledati hmm. Mada dosta zavisi i od cene, ako ovde stave realnije cene možda i ne budu tako loša ponuda .

 

[Alk0]

A ono jes, Buldozer je bio previse jak pa su morali malo da ga osakate da ljudski organizam moze da isprati toliku brzinu

 

[drfedja]

Znaci, novi Phenom II sa Bulldozer jezgrom, klasicno uvaljivanje rubbish proizvoda. Bas me zanima hoce li na kraju bilo kakva kupovina AMD procesora imati ekonomsku isplativost. Sto se tice "kreativnog" imena, barem nije Phenom III.
BTW, kome bre oni zamazuju oci?

 

[3ebc]

A1 i B0 stepping?
Jel se to meni cini ili su ovo stari stepinzi koje su oni stancovali pa kasnije odustali?

 

[Rapture]

Ko kaze da su odustali ? .....

 

[Ace Rimmer]

Čišćenje inventara ... ne mora biti loše, ovisi koliko će tražiti za takve procesore. Dušu dalo za neki linux serverčić. Pretpostavljam da neki power management ipak mora biti, moj Athlon II X4 99% vremena radi na 800Mhz/0.9V

 

[drfedja]

A1 i B0 stepping?
Jel se to meni cini ili su ovo stari stepinzi koje su oni stancovali pa kasnije odustali?

Pa to ti je "daj kume neku kintu", da se ne baci, jer na A0 i B1 steppinzima ne radi turbo mod kako treba i ne radi četvrti modul, a i slabije se klokuju.

Ne čudi me da taj škart od beta revizija sada hoće prodaju kao niže rangirane procesore.

 

[peja81]

Ako cene budu OK verujem da će se prodavati veoma dobro, kao što je prodaja BD-a bolja od očekivanja. Ipak 6 i 8 jezgara imaju jak psihološki efekat, kad se pogleda da konkurencija nudi 2 (ili eventualno max 4) jezgra za iste pare, nema tu šta mnogo da se razmišlja.

 

[drfedja]

AMD marketing je procenio da je "average Joe" tupson i bili su u pravu.