AMD "Steamroller/Excavator" -info, speculations and experience

[chinook]

I was looking at the results of the Kaveri ES in geekbench and was wondering how it fares against Vishera.

This is my setup at the moment:



and these are the results:

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekb...aseline=223722

I was mainly interested in single core performance, and in my opinion it does pretty good. Multicore scores are lower, naturally.
Memory score seems too low, on the other hand (any thoughts on this?). My guess is that the chip was tested with basic 1600 mhz ram.
I will retest with my 8350 running at 3.5 ghz and ram at 1600 to see how it fares.

Followup



results:

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekb...aseline=243160

On single thread it's a win. On multithread, if we remove AES and Dijkstra out of the picture, the Steamroller CU's fare close or better to the Piledriver CU's (keep in mind the lack of L3 cache).
From the memory point of view i'm not sure what to make of it.

I think if we overclock these to 4.6-4.8 it should result in a faster chip than current visheras at least in single-threaded loads.
Not bad, I say.