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

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I thought the turbo is working on each core even in full load, isn't it?

even if some turbo worked on each core, it doesn't work all the time and certainly not at 2.3Ghz when 4C are under load. a8-3850 has 2.9Ghz without any turbo thats why I said the other model should perform 33% better and for a8-3850 you would need ~15% more.

Yes it's surprise because Trinity is 2M4C and would have disavantages comparing to true quad core.
There was a leak which said A1 Trinity is on par with a8-3850 in Cinebench, but the frequency is still in doubt. Even if it's the top ES then Trinity must have much higher per-thread performance. According to this chart(http://www.hardware.fr/articles/842-...s-3-2-ghz.html), 2M4C has 25% disavantages compare to deneb, it may imply ES trinity's ipc is nearly the same or less than Llano because frequency different is about 30%.

I think at best it will be on Llano level IPC.

EDIT: I found people is not that interested in trinity, right? It's sad there were too much arguement about zambezi but no more about trinity even right now.

For me trinity is way more interesting than BD was even before we found out about the lacking performance because I need an affordable notebook but don't know which Trinity to go with, 2M/4C for 13-14' or 11.6' and 1M/2C tdp 17W.
The bad thing about Trinity in notebook is you need to change default 1333Mhz memory for something faster, kingston offers 1866Mhz so-dimm and this will cost me +60 euro if I buy just the 4GB kit