AMD Zambezi news, info, fans !

[Apokalipse]

TWKR is sort of a "performance at all cost" chip. It can tolerate higher volts and clocks high because it's a very leaky chip.
That also means high power consumption.

[Sn0wm@n]

Interesting question and I often thought about that. Optical interconnect is just a tech but likely not meant by fabric (which IMO describes the way compute units are combined). Instead we might see something like EDGE/TRIPS (which Chuck Moore worked on in the past) and Larrabee. At least this slide suggests sth like that:
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Some options: smaller GPU cores spread across the CPU cores (short communication, less "reprocessing" and preparation -> higher power efficiency), compute arrays, reconfigurable computing. General purpose cores might become a collaborating set of small cores, accompanied by some bigger units for special workloads. As someone said, it might become standard to have more units on a chip (trannies are cheap) than power budget would allow to be active at the same time. Maybe I will elaborate that in more detail on my blog. No promises

since amd is aiming to go towards a more multi purpose cpu/gpu combo i think your idea about lots of smaller cores coupled to a specialised core isnt so bad at all .... coupled with a next generation power-saving feature could mean goodness


thanks for your thought


@JF-AMD: can you confirm that amd is hosting a bulldozer demo of some sort on the 16th of july???



http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?...post1037335089

[XRL8]

For anyone interested:

http://www.msi.com/news-media/news/1224.html

List is quite big and includes all recent amd chipsets.I think that companies like MSI and Asus deserve support for such actions .
I know that when the time comes for a new MB i will be looking at them first.

[JF-AMD]

@JF-AMD: can you confirm that amd is hosting a bulldozer demo of some sort on the 16th of july???

Beats me. I am server, not client. Since the 16th is a Saturday I am planning to be on my bike, enjoying the blistering 100F+ weather in Austin.

[FlanK3r]

I think, its right, because we had here 2 threads from Simon. One was "Los ANgeles" and second "Seattle". In LA was E3 and first show with BD

[Sn0wm@n]

Beats me. I am server, not client. Since the 16th is a Saturday I am planning to be on my bike, enjoying the blistering 100F+ weather in Austin.

no problem


and enjoy that bike throughout this summer

[JF-AMD]

Just got it back from the shop, so it is time to burn off the vacation calories.

But I guess that even though we are at 14+ days of 100F heat here in austin so far this year, some things are running cool:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...lldozer-server

Now, one more meeting then I get to head out to ride tonight. 100F with a heat advisory means I can ride my bike, then drink beer - all while losing weight.

[charged3800z24]

JF, enjoy the ride! My sister lives in Austin and has told me about the heat.

[FlanK3r]

Uff, I hate heat for sport...Today its here about 28 C and its for me and sport too hot

[Apokalipse]

It's winter down under.
Good for overclocking.

[Mechromancer]

Try 100F with 80% humidity here in Houston. I can handle 100+ weather if the humidity is low, but along the Gulf Coast your sweat can't evaporate off your skin to cool you. Speaking of cooling, I can't wait to see what Zambezi under water can do.

[Tomasis]

It's winter down under.
Good for overclocking.

but it is only 20c warm there?

[haylui]

in Singapore, it is 32C, with 79% humidity all year long...yay!!!!!

[TheBreezyBB]

All you people talking about heat! Come feel the wrath of 45c

[kuroikenshi]

Beats me. I am server, not client. Since the 16th is a Saturday I am planning to be on my bike, enjoying the blistering 100F+ weather in Austin.

No JF, we spoken about this before, you're not a server, you're a parson and I'm a pc, and windows 7 was my idea

[Donnie27]

No JF, we spoken about this before, you're not a server, you're a parson and I'm a pc, and windows 7 was my idea

A WHAT? In what parish church? I know he's a server guy but how long has he been doing this

[Formula350]

So do we know if the Zambezi on 900-series boards will be running with NB@2600MHz? I was getting excited about the 6.4MT/s (3200MHz) of 'Dozer, till I saw the new boards are only HT3.0 still Think they'll OC fine to 3200?

[csimon]

So do we know if the Zambezi on 900-series boards will be running with NB@2600MHz? I was getting excited about the 6.4MT/s (3200MHz) of 'Dozer, till I saw the new boards are only HT3.0 still Think they'll OC fine to 3200?

My understanding is that this is chip dependent so as soon that as you pop in the BD it will be HT3.1 (3200MHz). In other words the boards should support both HT3.0 & HT3.1.

[Formula350]

My understanding is that this is chip dependent so as soon that as you pop in the BD it will be HT3.1 (3200MHz). In other words the boards should support both HT3.0 & HT3.1.

I dunno... I think with how big of deal was made that 890FX could do 2600Mhz (despite the PhII not defaulting to that), one would think the same would be again done with the 990FX. The only things I've seen are boards silkscreened with HT3.0, or like this ASRock Extreme4 (which as I found out over a month ago is just the 890FX Deluxe5) which just says FSB2.6GHz and HT3.0 :\ The Sabertooth nor the CVF mention HT version or the CPU-NB speed. MSI's 990FX-GD80 I didn't see mention it, but the GD65 says 3.0. I'm not going to check all the gigabyte models, but the two I did look at were absent of all mentioning, like ASUS

[kuroikenshi]

that's what you get when posting near midnight after spending hours working on the car..... parsons....

[FlanK3r]

AIDA, HWINFO

http://obrovsky.blogspot.com/2011/06...tasty-huh.html

[slaveondope]

AIDA, HWINFO

http://obrovsky.blogspot.com/2011/06...tasty-huh.html

Better be a gimped B0/1 chip, memory bandwidth is

[Apokalipse]

^ Take results with a 10 tonne grain of salt

[undone]

Better be a gimped B0/1 chip, memory bandwidth is

Those bandwidth are the same as B0 chips, dont to be serious.

[slaveondope]

^ Take results with a 10 tonne grain of salt

Those bandwidth are the same as B0 chips, dont to be serious.

Well aware, turn your radar's down