AMD Shanghai is officially out

[Katanai]

AMD today announced widespread availability of its 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, delivering up to 35 percent more performance with up to a 35 percent decrease in power consumption at idle. With IT decision-makers looking to do more with less, the newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor can help drive data center efficiencies and reduce complexities with innovations that offer superior virtualization performance and increased performance-per-watt. Global OEMs are expected to immediately offer enterprise and SMB customers more than 25 systems, available between launch today and the end of the year, based on the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, codenamed “Shanghai.”

http://www.techpowerup.com/76142/AMD...rocessors.html

[Bandwidth]

Tests @ Anandtech http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3456

"At all load points, Shanghai is the clear winner. For the first four load points Shanghai is again ~12% more efficient than Barcelona, and as much as 28% or 47% more efficient than the Intel systems depending upon the DIMM configuration."

[Mats]

And they're still HT1.0 CPU's for now, right?

Just saw a CPU name I never seen before:

The AMD “Dragon” platform is designed to harness the power of fusion by optimizing the performance of new 45nm AMD Phenom II X4 quad-core processors with award-winning AMD 700 Series chipsets and award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics.

I wonder why it makes me think of Pentium II. .

[Boschwanza]

http://www.tecchannel.de/server/proz...ance_shanghai/

German only but lots of Spec Benchmarks

[Shintai]

Powerconsumption looks very nice. And the increased L3 cache helps the scaling. But performance looks more or less onpair with 65nm in IPC.

[donitsi]

Looks good to me! (IPC could be better though)
Love the power consumption
Now let's see what deneb does!

[Motiv]

Looks good to me! (IPC could be better though)
Love the power consumption
Now let's see what deneb does!

I wouldn't hold my breath too much about Deneb. I don't think desktop performance is gonna be too good.

If the IPC has had no improvement (other than the cache), then it's a bit of a damp squib for us gamers.

[donitsi]

I wouldn't hold my breath too much about Deneb. I don't think desktop performance is gonna be too good.

If the IPC has had no improvement (other than the cache), then it's a bit of a damp squib for us gamers.

Well I hope that's not the case.. but seems so.
Few weeks to find out

[Mats]

What's the release date for Deneb?

[bedlamite]

January 7th.

[Motiv]

January 7th.

Are you sure, could you point us to the url. I heard it was December.

[donitsi]

What's the release date for Deneb?

I'm pretty sure that I saw it somewhere... between 20th and 27th this month

Or was it the Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

[AKM]

The transistor drive current for AMD's 45-nm devices is much lower than that of the Intel HKMG transistors. But power consumption is quickly becoming a high priority for server chips. AMD's transistors exhibit very low channel leakage. Our transistor benchmarks indicates that leakage current is less than one-third of the value measured on AMD's 65-nm process. It's also significantly lower than the Intel 45-nm HKMG process. In fact the Ion/Ioff ratio for AMD's PFET is nearly 10 times better than that for the Intel PFET.

Under the Hood: AMD's Shanghai marks move to 45-nm node
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...2002243&pgno=3

[gallag]

Poor ipc gains, Great job on power which will mean a lot for the intended market, Does not look good for deneb though.

[Boschwanza]

Poor ipc gains, Great job on power which will mean a lot for the intended market, Does not look good for deneb though.

Shanghai is very close to Penryn score for a single thread, at least for this Benchmark.

[donitsi]

And we also nicely see that Cinebench is not a very memory sensitive program

[bedlamite]

Are you sure, could you point us to the url. I heard it was December.

It was like that since the begining and nothing has changed.
I know that some websites state for November/December but afaik thats not true.

[Shintai]

Shanghai is very close to Penryn score for a single thread, at least for this Benchmark.

Thats due to cache. And not that much faster after you remove the extra clock. Plus remember this is FBDIMMs. Not Regular.

Deneb is january 8th (Atleast embargo) on the last AMD slide.

[donitsi]

If so... Then I could just go to AM3 straight away... why not C2 too It's a whole new computer anyways again

[Periander6]

Thats due to cache. And not that much faster after you remove t5he extra clock.

It's better than a 23% gain even after you remove the clock gains. That is huge. Also saying "it's just the cache" is pretty silly. Caches can make a massive difference. Intel proved that.

[bedlamite]

Well but Deneb will be AM2+ + AM3, so if you have AM2+ mobo now, you can buy Deneb and then just change mobo for AM3.
And AM3 will be released much later.
And yes, this Cinebench test is quite interesting.
17% higher clock and 44% higher score.

[Motiv]

Thats due to cache. And not that much faster after you remove the extra clock. Plus remember this is FBDIMMs. Not Regular.

Deneb is january 8th (Atleast embargo) on the last AMD slide.

I'm sure there are some other tweaks but nothing to write home about. We already knew Barcelona was a decent server chip, just low clocks.

Looks like Shangai will keep AMD in the race for a while, especially when it ramps to the 3ghz mark.

I still think for a desktop they will have to have low low prices to compete with intel. I'm sure a 3.0ghz deneb will be a nice chip for the price it will come out at (ie low). Personally I don't care about OCing any more, I just prefer a chip that runs fine at a price point (watts/performance means nothing to me in a home environment).

That road map is a bit weird. Shows it out in December but embargoed to Jan????

If that means they are releasing late Dec before Christmas, they are afraid of the reviews it would give!

[Shintai]

Well but Deneb will be AM2+ + AM3, so if you have AM2+ mobo now, you can buy Deneb and then just change mobo for AM3.
And AM3 will be released much later.

I wouldnt count on it. There are 2 SKUs for Deneb. One AM2+ and one AM3. Hopefully there is another reason for it.

[bedlamite]

I wouldnt count on it. There are 2 SKUs for Deneb. One AM2+ and one AM3. Hopefully there is another reason for it.

Ah yes you're right. It will be possible to put AM3 SKU into AM2+ mobo, but not AM2+ SKU into AM3. Sorry for confusion

[gallag]

Shanghai is very close to Penryn score for a single thread, at least for this Benchmark.

Dont get me wrong, I am sure that there will be more than this bench where deneb will beat penryn, but I just cannot get giddy about AMD's future best being nearly as good as Intels current second best.