Bulldozer Revisions?? and Phenom 2 X8??

[eternalone]

Are they going to get a new tweaked stepping or are they just dropping the old Bulldozer and just moving on to Piledriver?? Also when are the new tweaked BD supposed to drop??? Also any news on the the Phenom X8 cpu's??? Looking to get a cheap banger multi core cpu soon, and I dont want to spend that much dough.

 

[brybir]

I did not think that there was going to be a Phenom X8 CPU as far as I know in the consumer space (although there are Opteron's floating around that get used that way in the future).

I found this article from a few weeks ago about new potential chips from AMD:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...e_Preparing_Phenom_II_X8_Microprocessors.html

 

[denev2004]

Heard that couple of days ago. Actually I don't think a 2.4Ghz 4M8C core would be useful under the circumstances that BD is design to reach a high CR

 

[Ancalagon44]

Is it possible that these are Bulldozer CPUs rebranded as Phenom IIs? I mean, as far as the consumer knows, the new AMD CPUs are simply called FX. There is no Bulldozer in the title. It would probably be cheaper to sell an 8C BD as a Phenom II X8 than do the design work in making an actual Phenom II X8.

But who knows? Could undercut sales of BD since Phenom II is better in nearly every way.

 

[dma0991]

GloFlo needs to improve its 32nm manufacturing first before even considering a jump to a X8. The power consumption could be higher and die size larger than BD. Either that or a compromise for a lower stock clock speed (< 3.0GHz).

 

[IonusX]

I did not think that there was going to be a Phenom X8 CPU as far as I know in the consumer space (although there are Opteron's floating around that get used that way in the future).

I found this article from a few weeks ago about new potential chips from AMD:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...e_Preparing_Phenom_II_X8_Microprocessors.html

it was determined that phenom II x8 is an am3+ bulldozer that's locked
while the phenom fx's are unlocked (or closer to anyway)
a bulldozer revision is just rumor.. from everything im seeing their just driving the crazy train into piledriver.

 

[MentalIlness]

Elite official website, A890GXM-A2 (V2.0) CPU list appears in a number of pieces of different processors, which are:
- ZD242046W8K43, AMD Phenom II X8 2420,2.40 GHz, 95W;
- ZD302051W8K44, AMD Phenom II X8 3020,3.00 GHz, 125W;
- ZD252046W6443, AMD Phenom II X6 2520,2.50 GHz, 95W;
- ZD282046W6K43, AMD Phenom II X6 2820,2.80 GHz, 95W;