AMD Piledriver FX and Opteron refresh? After summertime..

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AMD Piledriver FX and Opteron refresh? After summertime..

Reported by Nebojsa Novakovic on Monday, July 9 2012 1:37 pm

The eagerly awaited Vishera FX desktop and Abu Dhabi server refreshes of AMD processor lines seem scheduled for late summer or early fall (Q3 to Q4 2012) as of now. What's in store?

Yes, Bulldozer core microarchitecture didn't exactly impress on the desktop, with the power-performance ratio being the biggest problem even with discounted pricing. On the server front, the dual die 8 core-pair 'Interlagos' implementation of Bulldozer fared somewhat better as there are more apps that can benefit from many-thread resources, especially integer bound Web environments where the shared FP units aren't that much of a hindrance.

Read more.. AMD Piledriver FX and Opteron refresh? After summertime.. by VR-Zone.com
 

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