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pelov said:
If you ignore this part...



The good news is that there's clearly something salvageable in the Bulldozer design. I'm not happy with the CMT approach either because moar coars doesn't equate to more performance but this chip is looking to be what Bulldozer should have been in the first place: Nehalem performance. The even better news here is that the Nehalem performance is coming from an APU that's got VLIW4 graphics attached to it limiting TDP and likely clock speeds. If Vishera clocks even higher, coupled with that L3 cache it should be pretty damn good.
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This is what I expected from BD. Hell, this is what AMD expected from BD. Hopefully we'll see further improvements with Vishera, tightening the latencies on L2 and L3 caches would be nice.

Hopefully we'll see high end Trinities in laptops with decent parts and build quality.
 
Roughly equivalent to an i7-970 with an integrated Radeon 6570 with 100W TDP, not too shabby if true.
 
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Wait, wait. You're telling me that a 2 module/4 "core" PD is faster than a 6C/12T Gulftown?

You're also telling me that an i5 2500K is faster than a Gulftown? lol. Okay.
 
Didn't you guys learn last time to wait until the part is released, or at least released to reviewers before deciding what the performance will be?
 
pelov said:
I believe those are single-threaded numbers 😛
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Oops, yeah I think the numbers are per thread but I imagine HT must not be a factor looking at i7-970 numbers compared to 2500K. Still, 4 core S1366 i7 at roughly ~3.4GHz performance is a nice jump from Llano.
 
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ok so comparing Trinity to Llano will give us an idea how good the IPC gains are, right?
 
Trinity is improved bulldozer cores (no L3) fused with VLIW4* GPU. It is the replacement for Llano.

*Most likely scenario, no evidence it will be GCN based.
 
Trinity is Piledriver cores with VLIW4 and no L3. Vishera, the AM3+ part, is also Piledriver cores but with some potential tweaks and L3 cache. The Bulldozer APU was cancelled as soon as they saw how poorly BD performed
 
RavenSEAL said:
That Trinity is an APU when Piledriver is expected to be a normal desktop chip.
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No.

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