AMD cuts to the core with 'Bulldozer' Opterons

[JF-AMD]

JF,
Do you have any information on AMD turbo implementation on bulldozer?
Do you also have any information on the type of l3 cache bulldozer will use?

Cheers .

There will be a turbo-type function in Bulldozer. I am not a big fan of features like this (and have said so on many occasions) because most server customers want lower power more than higher performance. I get more people asking me how to downclock the processor (we have a feature that turns off P-States) to reduce power consumption. I can't give details but I believe we have a better implementation.

As for the caches we have not released cache size data, that typically comes out at launch. Releasing cache sizes makes it easier for the other guys to try to model performance. The less they know, the better.