!!!The Ultimate K8L Thread 2007 & Beyond!!!

[s7e9h3n]

The CPU Selection BOX is for multi socket boards, like the Quad FX:

Now that, my friend, is an interesting cpu May I ask where you got that pic?

[doompc]

s7:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/425/1/

Hope succeed in your plan

[s7e9h3n]

s7:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/425/1/

Hope succeed in your plan

Sheesh, I feel stupid...I thought CPUZ had been updated to include FX-7x....I guess not

[alucasa]

Sheesh, I feel stupid...I thought CPUZ had been updated to include FX-7x....I guess not

I have Core Temp 0.95 (beta) that recognizes QuadFX cpu. Do you want it ?

[Serge84]

http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/news.php?ti...ime=1167580800

Star cpu's to have SSE4a announced by AMD!

Regarding with the 48 SSE4 to be added into *That Other Companies* next-generation 45nm products, AMD has announced last week that Star will have SSE4A, a derivative edition of SSE4 in which those *Other Companies* 64 instructions are not available. Instructions include graphic, video encoding, 3D calculation, multimedia related are all compatible in Star.

[thecake90]

[Shintai]

http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/news.php?ti...ime=1167580800

Star cpu's to have SSE4a announced by AMD!

Regarding with the 48 SSE4 to be added into *That Other Companies* next-generation 45nm products, AMD has announced last week that Star will have SSE4A, a derivative edition of SSE4 in which those *Other Companies* 64 instructions are not available. Instructions include graphic, video encoding, 3D calculation, multimedia related are all compatible in Star.

Great, so we get another flop like 3Dnow! Gotta love it...

[Shintai]

Just as a note, for those still far away in dreamlands. AMDs SpecFP_rate thats their only estimate of beating Intel and dualcore K8 in. Is more or less a memory benchmark. Also quite obvious why AMD haven´t posted a 4 dualcore setup in the list.

So...its like posting a sandra memory benchmark for AMD, or sandre SSE benchmark for Intel.

Another hype killed and fanbois screaming in vain.

[The Ghost]

AMD to intro four Barcelona parts in second quarter
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37390

[MAS]

inquirer did swallow w0mbat's photo
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37375

congrats.

[Serge84]

It would be even funnier if it all turns out true. We'll just see who's side was told so and who will be laughing then so don't hold your breath so soon until its out, then we'll look back on all this and see who was right and who was wrong, then the people who had a big mouth feel stupid. *Rolls eyes* I'm sick and tired of fandom wars. Run their mouths to the very end until they are behind again and told so. Who really cares? This is about K8L not Intel.

[Serge84]

It was directed at nobody.

[Agent11]

Are there any other sites with information on star besides hkepc?

[[XC] Teroedni]

http://arstechnica.com/Barcelona news


I find this very Interesting

Finally, K8L's floating-point/SSE datapaths have been widened from 80 bits to 128 bits, and the resulting scheduler and execution hardware has been widened, as well. This improvement gives K8L's FP/SIMD units the ability to do many common scalar and 128-bit packed single- and double-precision operations at a rate of one per cycle, bringing it up to speed with Conroe in terms of per-unit throughput.

Amd Analyst day pdf download

[[XC] Teroedni]

Here is another Amd Pdf file from dec 6
There are info for their upcoming fusion, but also have some info on Barcelona(k8l)

Dec06 Amd analyst day Pdf

[Agent11]

Wow! thanks, I have to say I like the way amd is headed.

[Lightman]

Here is another Amd Pdf file from dec 6
There are info for their upcoming fusion, but also have some info on Barcelona(k8l)

Dec06 Amd analyst day Pdf

Thanks!

Good read. 8-core in development .

[savantu]

AMD will launch its quad-core Opteron lineup for SocketF at 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3GHz in mid-2007, with 2.4GHz to follow in late 2007 / early 2008. The design won't exceed 2.5GHz until Q2 2008.

Maximum dissipation is 95w for models under 2.4GHz and 120w for models above 2.4GHz.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5992

[Shintai]

AMD will launch its quad-core Opteron lineup for SocketF at 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3GHz in mid-2007, with 2.4GHz to follow in late 2007 / early 2008. The design won't exceed 2.5GHz until Q2 2008.

Maximum dissipation is 95w for models under 2.4GHz and 120w for models above 2.4GHz.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5992

So all the 2.9Ghz parts are gone...becides dualcore maybe...
Just on a sidenote...even if it is 40% faster (Unlikely due to the specfp_rate only and its the highest bench at all) then it would "only" be about a 3.2Ghz Core 2 at those speeds to 2008.

[savantu]

So all the 2.9Ghz parts are gone...becides dualcore maybe...
Just on a sidenote...even if it is 40% faster (Unlikely due to the specfp_rate only and its the highest bench at all) then it would "only" be about a 3.2Ghz Core 2 at those speeds to 2008.

Downgraded and late it seems.
About the 40% claim , it is simply restricted to SpecFP_rate and it is simulated.

Intel isn't standing still , it will introduce a new series of chipsets for DP.

The Stoakley platform is based on a 90-nano shrink of the Bensley architecture. Bensley's dual 1,066/1,333MHz front side busses return, this time with support for upcoming 45-nano Penryn chips. Stoakley also features plenty of PCI Express, with 44 lanes of PCIe joined by a pair of second-generation PCIe x16 links. Generation one PCIe links can be used to hook into a variety of peripheral chips to provide Serial ATA RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, and PCI-X connectivity.

Seaburg is the codename for Stoakley's Memory Controller Hub (MCH), which features four channels of FB-DIMMs at 533 or 667MHz. Up to 128GB of memory is supported—double that of Bensley's Blackford MCH. Seaburg also offers an enhanced memory controller that Intel says improves sustained throughput by 25% and a larger, smarter snoop filter optimized for quad-core chips.

The snoop filter stores coherency information on all of the cache lines mapped to system memory. The Blackford MCH's snoop filter isn't really optimized for quad-core designs; affinity groups are tied to each front-side bus, but quad-core CPUs add additional agents to those busses. With Seaburg, Intel has designed a snoop filter with four affinity groups—one for each last level cache on the front-side bus. Seaburg's snoop filter also features a new eviction algorithm, and its size has been increased to ensure complete coverage for future quad core-chips that Intel says will feature larger caches.

Allow me to doubt K8L matching a 2.66GHz Cloverton on Stoakley.

[alayashu]

Downgraded and late it seems.
About the 40% claim , it is simply restricted to SpecFP_rate and it is simulated.

Intel isn't standing still , it will introduce a new series of chipsets for DP.

any believable link?
they said FP will get 3.6 boost Quad vs Dual, this is all we know regarding this (so more like 80%).

[savantu]

any believable link?
they said FP will get 3.6 boost Quad vs Dual, this is all we know regarding this (so more like 80%).

2x cores 2x SSE throughoutput = 4X the SSE power of a current DC.But it's all theory , in practice the gains will be much smaller.

[The Ghost]

AMD will launch its quad-core Opteron lineup for SocketF at 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3GHz in mid-2007, with 2.4GHz to follow in late 2007 / early 2008. The design won't exceed 2.5GHz until Q2 2008.

Maximum dissipation is 95w for models under 2.4GHz and 120w for models above 2.4GHz.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5992

let us remember , that is a dailytech road map , not amd's road map

[The Ghost]

Unlike the Inq, DT verifies their stories. 99.9% chance that roadmap was verified with a source at AMD prior to publication.

you mean like that penryn story with HT

[The Ghost]

And yet we STILL don't have any proof that is wrong. Now do we?

i do not know about that , they had two articles that stated that they was contacted by intel that the HT information was wrong , and they also stated that penryn was not going to be out until first quarter 08