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

[informal]

Vishera will be PD core with L3

Yeah it could be but I meant this slide:


Only L2 is listed in the slide. Maybe they didn't mention L3 on purpose ,who knows. Anyway,15-20% over 8150 is good enough to put AMD back into the mid-high range.


edit: note that this slides says 10% better x86 performance. Other slides state Piledriver will have 10-15% better core performance than Bulldozer. So It's not really clear if the FX Next slide is referring just to IPC or clock+IPC (which should be very low improvemet). Another possible explanation can be that AMD knows they will launch 8170 at higher clock(around 3.8-3.9Ghz base clock) so they figured this in the PD performance estimate: PD @ 4Ghz should be ~10% faster than 8170 @ 3.8Ghz.