Posted by Enlightenment on 19 april 2007 @ 02:48 - Source: [ K-Hardware ]
AMD has (finally) released more details about it's next-generation family of processors, codenamed K10. In München, Germany, AMD tries to counterbalance the recent news about intel innovations coming from the Intel Developer Forum, an event currently taking place in Beijing where Intel displays it's new technology innovations.
Intel has gained the upper hand last year when it released it's new Core 2 Duo processor line while at the same time provoking a price-war with it's much smaller competitor, AMD. In recent years, AMD has managed to both outperform Intel and to steal market share from it's much bigger opponent. But Intel's huge research institutions and cash-reserves finally paid off and overpowered AMD, who saw market share drop together with its turn-around and net-profits.
However, AMD is destined to make a come-back, they claim. Barcelona, the name given to the new K10-processor, will be much more efficient and "true quadcore" (1x4) as opposed to Intel's dual dualcore (2x2) solution. In order to achieve this AMD has:
updated it's Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) to allow communicating with multiple memory modules at the same time, and allowing both reading and writing at the same time (full-duplex) which will result in higher memory performance.
developed a new crossbar switch which allows up to 8 cores to communicate with eachother, while Intel uses an older Front Side Bus technology for the cores to communicate.
made it possible to set the clock speed and voltage of each core individually, allowing for asynchronous overclocking and advanced power management technologies. Also the memory controller can be controlled seperately. This allows for one core to run at 2.6GHz while the others take it easy on just 2.0GHz, for example. A feature that will be welcomed by many overclockers and allow for very energy-efficient quadcore processors.
added a new Level3 cache which is shared by all cores, while the Level1 and Level2 caches remain exclusive to the parent core.
updated the temperature sensors, allowing more sensitive measurement of the on-die temperature.
It remains unclear when Barcelona will become available. Some rumors suggest AMD will release it's new processor during the Computex event, on 5 june. The successor of Barcelona, codenamed Shanghai is set for a release in 2008.
Intel has gained the upper hand last year when it released it's new Core 2 Duo processor line while at the same time provoking a price-war with it's much smaller competitor, AMD. In recent years, AMD has managed to both outperform Intel and to steal market share from it's much bigger opponent. But Intel's huge research institutions and cash-reserves finally paid off and overpowered AMD, who saw market share drop together with its turn-around and net-profits.
However, AMD is destined to make a come-back, they claim. Barcelona, the name given to the new K10-processor, will be much more efficient and "true quadcore" (1x4) as opposed to Intel's dual dualcore (2x2) solution. In order to achieve this AMD has:
updated it's Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) to allow communicating with multiple memory modules at the same time, and allowing both reading and writing at the same time (full-duplex) which will result in higher memory performance.developed a new crossbar switch which allows up to 8 cores to communicate with eachother, while Intel uses an older Front Side Bus technology for the cores to communicate.made it possible to set the clock speed and voltage of each core individually, allowing for asynchronous overclocking and advanced power management technologies. Also the memory controller can be controlled seperately. This allows for one core to run at 2.6GHz while the others take it easy on just 2.0GHz, for example. A feature that will be welcomed by many overclockers and allow for very energy-efficient quadcore processors.added a new Level3 cache which is shared by all cores, while the Level1 and Level2 caches remain exclusive to the parent core.updated the temperature sensors, allowing more sensitive measurement of the on-die temperature.It remains unclear when Barcelona will become available. Some rumors suggest AMD will release it's new processor during the Computex event, on 5 june. The successor of Barcelona, codenamed Shanghai is set for a release in 2008.
| Reply by Johan (unregistered) on Sat, 05 May 2007 @ 15:34 | Quote |
I hope AMD can keep up with Intel, but i think Intel has too much money and can develop things faster. If AMD were to disappear i think this will be very bad for the consumers (us).
| Reply by Mike Hober (unregistered) on Sun, 06 May 2007 @ 16:00 | Quote |
I'm ready to see some benchmarks. But since Intel is already playing with 45nm AMD has some long backlog to overcome. I'm not sure if they can do that, since they are also stripped of cash.
| Reply by Crafty (unregistered) on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 @ 06:19 | Quote |
I just bought an AMD 6000+ for cheap, better deal than an E6600 i think. But AMD better take back that performance crown or people might leave them for Intel.
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