7/09/2012 07:09:00 PM
dannzfay
AMD has been very modest in performance predictions about its new “Steamroller” x86 core design. The company is touting a 10% improvement over “Bulldozer” architecture, but real life benchmarks with 3.8GHz “Trinity” processor and overclocked 3.8 GHz FX 8150 CPU has exposed some real impressive results.
Despite Trinity’s lack of level 3 cache, the performance increase ranges well beyond AMD’s 10%, so most industry insiders expect an overall 20% performance jump from Vishera processors. Real-life tests showing a 50% performance increase over AMD's own expectations is quite impressive. We're not expecting this to happen in all applications, but it's surprising anyway.
Trinity’s superiority is obvious in single-threaded scenarios, as well as in multi-threaded applications, and adding 8 MB of level 3 cache can only improve the situation. As reported by Fudzilla, AMD’s Richland next-generation accelerated processing unit (APU) is coming in Q2 of next year, we can say that this is likely to be AMD’s first “Steamroller” implementation.
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| AMD FX Processor Future Features Image credits to AMD |
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| AMD FX Processor Future Features Image credits to AMD |
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