AMD "Piledriver" refresh of Zambezi - info, speculations, test, fans

[informal]

Im afraid that Llano will wipe the floors with Trinity. Hmm.. I dont remember any socket that had shorter lifespan than FM1? Im sure there has been some rare "special" sockets though but i would imagine that FM1 is in quite many computers by now already.

If desktop PD based Trinity can bring 5-6% more IPC,on average, versus BDver1 and if it can Turbo up to 3.8Ghz while staying in 100W TDP range then for sure it can be 20% faster than Llano:
-llano is 15% faster than BD per clock => 2.9x1.15=3.3GHz QC BD needed to match it or 3.3/1.05=3.17Ghz PD.
- to be 20% faster than 2.9Ghz Llano, PD would have to Turbo up to around 3.8Ghz. For 2M part this Turbo core is very achievable IMO. Especially if you think about the TDP of 3850 Llano part which is 100W. Today's 95W 8120 with 4M/8T can Turbo to 4Ghz with 2 modules active. Pretty simple math .

So bottom line: 20% faster than both desktop and mobile Llano is very much possible. Clock+IPC uplift will do the trick easily. 30% uplift in GPU department will be a bit harder to achieve given the memory BW limitations of Llano,but BD and PD have new revamped IMC which is far better than what K10 has (around 35-50% higher mem BW). Trinity will support DDR2133 so mission accomplished.