AMD FX Series Processors Hit Pre-Order
With the recent announcement of Intel's Sandy-Bridge-E's pending release date, we get some much welcome word that the FX-Series ("Bulldozer") is coming soon, with the CPUs going up for pre-order.
AMD's FX-Series ("Bulldozer") is expected to be release in Q4, following the release of its Opteron server based processors. We get our first sign that the release may be sooner than later, with the CPUs going up for pre-order on retail sites such as Bottom-line Telecommunications (BLT). BLT has the FX-8150 priced at $266.28, the FX-8120 priced at $221.73, and the FX-6100 priced at $188.32. We can expect the final release price to come in very close to these prices (past history has shown AMD's 1K quantity price to be $10 to $15 lower than retail price).
The AMD FX-Series processors are based on their new "Bulldozer" micro-architecture. The FX-8150 has 8-cores, clocked at 3.60 GHz, and 16 MB of cache. The FX-8120 has 8-cores, clocked at 3.10 GHz, and 16 MB of cache. The FX-6100 has 6-cores, clocked at 3.30 GHz, and 14 MB of cache.
The table below contains a summary of FX-6100, FX-8120 and FX-8150 details:
| Model | Cores | Threads | Frequency | Turbo Frequency | L2 cache | L3 cache | TDP | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FX-Series FX-6100 | 6 | 6 | 3.3 GHz | 3.9 GHz | 6 MB | 8 MB | 95 Watt | $188.32 |
| FX-Series FX-8120 | 8 | 8 | 3.1 GHz | 4 GHz | 8 MB | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $221.73 |
| FX-Series FX-8150 | 8 | 8 | 3.6 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 8 MB | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $266.28 |
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Looks pretty good. I wonder how they will compare to the i7's
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I don't mean to be a bit of a douche but how useful are those extra cores? Like, how much software can take advantage of it? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for tech advancements and these are probably just to future proof their CPU's, but atm will we see that much of a real world benefit?
Regardless, lets hope these are more than a match for Intel
@blubbey
If you used Gentoo linux and compiled everything from source code, those extra cores are very useful... Just because you can't use its full potential in Windows doesn't mean it's not a good processor.
It would be fantastic for virtual machines. Especially something like ESXI