Just last month, AMD staged an event to squeeze an amazing 8429.38MHz out of its FX-8150 processor. The highest-clocked CPU in the world — it was a big production. And now they’ve been beat by a team of one.
More than a year after its inception, AMD’s eight-core FX CPU (codename: Bulldozer) is finally available for purchase. The chip is geared towards resource heavy applications, such as HD video editing and multi-display gaming.
It may not technically be the world’s fastest processor, but AMD squeezed an overclocked Guinness World Record number out of its impending 8-core FX CPU: 8.429GHz, beating the previous global high of 8.308GHz. Intel fanboys, begin your outrage!
Tom’s Guide has an excellent (and very lengthy) interview with John Carmack that avoids simply spruiking the upcoming Rage running on iD’s new iD Tech 5 game engine and instead discusses more general computing topics. Carmack’s not pulling too many punches, either.
Man, we’re still waiting for FX-Series chips with up to 8 ‘Bulldozer’ cores to finally arrive, but if you believe the slide after the jump, next year’s ‘Komodo’ desktop CPUs will have up to 10 ‘Piledriver’ (aka enhanced Bulldozer) cores. Spiffy!
AMD’s “Fusion Accelerated Processing Units” (APUs) combine the CPU and discrete Radeon graphics on the same die. There’s three tiers: C-Series (netbooks/tablets), E-Series (12.1- to 14-inchers), and the A-Series for bigger laptops and PCs. We’ve already seen AMD’s C-50 and E-350 chips, and here come the big guns. The dual-core A4 and quad-core A6/A8 APUs roughly target Core i3, i5 and i7 laptops, respectively — so get ready for a Sandy Bridge stoush. In Australia: HP, Sony, Dell, Samsung, Acer, Toshiba and Asus have already signed on.
Mere weeks after NVIDIA claimed to have the fastest GPU on the market, AMD is now claiming supremacy with its Radeon HD 6990M graphics card, despite having a lower clockspeed by over 500MHz.
The stock graphics card in the new Thunderbolt-y iMacs is AMD’s Radeon HD 6970M, in 1GB or 2GB flavours. How powerful is it?
