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AMD FX-9000 - FX-8770 CPU's.
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I have a massive problem with them calling it a 5GHZ CPU, if you were to take each core to 100% it wouldn't be 5GHZ.
Pricing should be interesting however, I can see these being an AMD benchers choice.
Pricing should be interesting however, I can see these being an AMD benchers choice.
Shouldn't that be AMD Unleashes First-Ever nearly 5 GHz x86 Processor
It definitely shouldn't be claiming the first ever 5GHz CPU, the first 5GHz x86 CPU is fine, but IBM beat AMD to 5 GHZ with a commercially available CPU years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6
Sadly ironic as it was AMD that introduced the "Pentium rating" back when they owned Intel in IPC
Any idea if it will come in at FX8350 price and force a drop in current AMD CPU prices? or will it be priced higher than FX8350? if its 5GHz then I can see it having ~ the same stock performance as a Haswell i7 but without the overclocking headroom, so it will need to be cheaper.
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They're pimping it as the first 'commercially available' 5GHz processor and I think that's valid enough since IBM doesn't actually sell POWER chips to anyone, just servers that happen to contain some of them. Whereas AMD will sell 5GHz FX chips as a product on their own (although with them being OEM-only parts to begin with you'd need to place a big order to get any).
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It's not a 5GHZ CPU though, if you max out all the cores and it's not running 5GHZ, how can it be a 5GHZ CPU?
Actually its 5GHz x 8 cores so its a 40GHz CPU! (the sad this is we know full well some companies will attempt to market it as such lol)
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Please let us know how goes it.... overclocking ecte.....
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Will do, something is due today from Helsinki, no idea if its this or not.
Well this is interesting.
I don't see a problem with a CPU drawing 220-250W as this is basically a factory warranted overclocked product and I must be drawing near or above that at 4.5GHZ with my 3930K. I doubt there will be much headroom to OC on Air but on water....
So, I am keen to see the performance vs. a 4.5GHZ 3930K then, go AMD ?
Don't understand the posts above knocking the turbo clock, you really don't want any CPU stuck at 5GHZ the whole time and would want it only at that speed when the situation demands, as long as it is stable at a 5GHZ turbo and all cores will do that speed at the same time, then the 5GHZ label is correct.
I don't see a problem with a CPU drawing 220-250W as this is basically a factory warranted overclocked product and I must be drawing near or above that at 4.5GHZ with my 3930K. I doubt there will be much headroom to OC on Air but on water....
So, I am keen to see the performance vs. a 4.5GHZ 3930K then, go AMD ?
Don't understand the posts above knocking the turbo clock, you really don't want any CPU stuck at 5GHZ the whole time and would want it only at that speed when the situation demands, as long as it is stable at a 5GHZ turbo and all cores will do that speed at the same time, then the 5GHZ label is correct.
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Trinity, which is the same steeping as the FX-8350, would only do 4.4Ghz, or 4.6Ghz if you got lucky.
Richland run's 10% higher clock rates than Trinity out of the box, and it does that at the same if not slightly less power, crucially it overclocks to 4.8Ghz with apparent ease, half of them are getting 5Ghz.
The FX-8350 would do 4.8Ghz at best
If the FX-9000 is to FX8350 what Richland is to Trinity then this could be an interesting chip.
Frankly I would be shocked if this thing runs stable at 5.5Ghz, as that just seems unbelievable to me. but if AMD have managed to do something to it, to give it stability at insane speeds, and tweak the power efficiency some. then I believe its possible.
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If you push the CPU 100% it won't be running 5GHZ, it'll be running the base clock, therefore it's not a 5GHZ CPU.
I don't have a problem with it downclocking.
I don't have a problem with it downclocking.
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220w tdp You think its high ??
How much does Sandy draw at 5ghz ?? WELL ABOVE 200w
How much does Sandy draw at 5ghz ?? WELL ABOVE 200w
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Its a little to much about nothing though.
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If the shoe was on the other foot.
However, since it's not 5GHZ base, and it's just turbo'ing on X amount of cores, the amount of FX8350's that could do that level of 5GHZ would dramatically increase.
That's only because for 5ghz you need to pump 1.5V or something ridiculous through it, for reference a 4.6ghz 2700K on a sensible voltage uses about 130W and a 3930K at 4.6ghz uses about 190W (both under Prime95).
I bet these CPU's can't even run Prime95 without throttling.
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