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[Loverclocker]

AMD launches FireStream 9370 and 9350

Cypress goes pro
AMD has told its Cypress GPU to find work and move out of mom’s basement. The company has announced two FireStream cards based on the RV870, which debuted in the highly successful HD 5870.

The cards are designed for use in high-performance GPU computing systems, so they probably won’t be rendering blood and gore. The 9370 packs 4GB of GDDR5 memory and fits into a PCI Express x16 slot and it features a DisplayPort output, although there’s not much chance of it being used. Power consumption is rated at 225W

The 9370 offers a single-precision floating-point peak of 2.64 teraflops and a double-precision peak of 528 gigaflops. AMD claims it will deliver twice the performance of its predecessor, the 9270. The new GPU should be better suited to OpenCL and other GPU computing tools as well.

The 9350 is a downclocked version of the 9370 and it has just 2GB of GDDR5. It features a power requirement of 150W and it costs $799.

[Drug Tito]

3.1GHz at 95W TDP
AMD's Propus is about to get another, faster iteration. In reality, Propus is a CPU derived from Deneb with no L3 cache, 2MB total L2 cache, or 512 for each core.

The CPU is a quad core, supports DDR3 1333 and comes in AM3 package. The currently fastest Propus is Athlon II X4 640 clocked at 3.0GHZ and Q3 should see it get topped by a 3.1GHz clocked part. The name of the new CPU is Athlon II X4 645, this CPU is clocked at 3.1GHZ and like its predecessor - it has a 95W TDP.

Let us remind you that this AM3 CPU should also work in many AM2+ based motherboards. The launch date of Athlon II X4 645 is Q3 2010 and we're talking about the quarter that started at the beginning of this month.

[Loverclocker]

AMD reports record second quarter

16 million DX11 parts shipped thus far
AMD has announced its quarterly earnings on a press conference late Thursday and the company seems to be recovering from years of financial issues caused by the ATI takeover and Globalfoundries launch.

AMD announced revenue of $.165 billion and a net loss of $43 million, or $0.06 per share. The company reported operating income of $125 million, with non-GAAP net income of $83 million and non-GAAP operating income of $138 million.

Despite the fact that AMD is still reporting a slight loss, it is quite clear that the numbers are improving across the board, thanks to a series of successful products introduced over the past several quarters.

Gross margin was 45 percent, CPU average selling prices remained flat sequentially, but increased year-over-year. This indicates that AMD has managed to regain some ground in the mid-range and high-end CPU market, mainly thanks to its affordable yet powerful Phenom II and Athlon II processors.

The news gets even better in the graphics segment. Revenue increased 8 percent sequentially and 87 percent year-on-year. AMD reported record GPU shipments and operating income of $33 million. The company managed to ship 16 million HD 5000 series parts over the past three quarters. Also, the fact that Nvidia has been struggling to introduce its DX11 hardware over the same period bodes quite well for AMD. So far, Nvidia DX11 shipments appear to be in the hundreds of thousands rather than millions.

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http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...rocessors.html

AMD Tapes Out First "Bulldozer" Microprocessors.

Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest supplier of microprocessors, said that it had taped out the first central processing units (CPUs) based on the code-named Bulldozer core. The company hopes to begin sampling of the chips with customers shortly and initiate mass production sometimes in 2011.


"In the second quarter of this year we also taped out the first 32nm product based on our new high-performance Bulldozer CPU core. We plan to begin sampling our Bulldozer based server and desktop processors in the second half of this year and remain on track for 2011 launches. These new processors will deliver significant performance improvements to the AMD platform," said Dirk Meyer, chief executive officer of AMD, during the quarterly conference call with financial community.
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konačno...

[neptune]

Ako ovo bude ono sto se suska da ce biti, a suska se da ce performanse biti iznad onih najjacih Intel core i7 hexacore-a iz extreme serije-eto nama konacno rata cijenama i u najvisem segmentu. E samo da ovo ispadne kako treba...

[Drug Tito]

A nadamo se svi da ce novi procesori u najbolju ruku biti izjednaceni sa intelovim top procesorima, da se konacno cijene koriguju.

[Loverclocker]

samo da ne isprdoljecnu sa nekim bagom ka zadnji put kad se bum najavljivao...

[memyselfandi]

ja mislim da uopste i ne ciljaju na top, nego vise neka srednja klasa

[Loverclocker]

Do sad su bili donja i srednja klasa...a u najavi se kaze: "...will bring significant performance improvements"

za mene je dosta da se izjednače sa intelom, pa da se kolju na vrh sa cijenama...

mada sa druge strane, ni intel, nikad, ne ladi jaja u ladu.

[NSX]

A nadamo se svi da ce novi procesori u najbolju ruku biti izjednaceni sa intelovim top procesorima, da se konacno cijene koriguju.

ako nije tajna sta toliko zahtjevno radis pa ti danasnji procesori iz srednje klase nisu dovoljno brzi?

[Drug Tito]

Pa recimo sa trenutnim X2 5200 mi se desavalo da mi rendering potraje po nekoliko sati, sto je i odlicno jer su se prije par godina ostavljali racunari u biroima preko noci da zavrse jednu sliku.

Naravno tu sad postoji mogucnost da se zakupi neka serverska jedinica, i da se veoma lagano odradi to preko interneta za par minuta, ali vecini ljudi sa ovih prostora to nije isplatljivo jer nemaju tu kolicinu posla koja bi isplatila jednu takvu investiciju.

[Loverclocker]

jeli iko čuo za Core2Duo, Core2Quad od Intela 5-6god je tuda...?
ili Corei7 evo zadnjiu godinu?

AMD nema procesorsku moć, opšte poznata stvar, pogotovu ne taj tvoj dual core kojeg su prije 3 god Core2Duo intelovi prali u svakom testu (No offence, just plain facts)...
a ako je za posao, i njega ima, mislim da ti 200-300e nije uopšte skupo.
ak je hobi, nema šta da se žališ ak nećeš pare da bačaš

[Drug Tito]

Vjerujes li da ovih dana renderujem na T8300, koji je 10% brzi od X2 5200. Da mi je desktop pri ruci, posao bih zavrshio na njemu. Nekako mi neprirodno opterecivati mobilni procesor.

Prije par godina jos se osjecao vibe od athlona64, mnogo puta uzgignute burton jezgre, da intel sa novom core2duo spajanjem dva procesora na jednoj plochici nece parirati ADM-u i td. Ja sam sam se opredjelio na AMD-ovu platformu iz jednog jedinog razloga - cijena. Polovinu budzeta za racunar sam potroshio na monitor i 10k rpm hdd, pa sam odustao od intela i presao na jeftiniju AMD varijantu. Da li je to bila dobra ideja? Gledajuci sa ove distance... i jeste. Dobar monitor moze da traje 10 godina, a dobar procesor?

Nadam se da cu se ove zime nakaniti da sastavim novi racunar. Kad mislim "nakaniti", mislim da ne bacim pare na neki suludno skup objektiv. Kad budem gledao koji procesor da uzmem, uvjek cu zaviriti kod AMD-a da vidim shta mi oni nude za 200 eura.

[Loverclocker]

Ma kažem, ne znam o kakvom se poslu radi, al bome i monitor nakon 5-6god, iako radi, dođe masu novih "fora"

Ja samo pričam zbog procesorske moći, ja imam E5200, na 3,5Ghz ga držim, za mene prosječnog korisnika, sve manje igara, a sve više neta i medije, ništa više nije potrebno. Bilo koji AMD, il čak trojezgarni za 10e više, vi radio jednako ili bolje.

Međutim za zahtjevne stvari, baš skoro gledah testove, intelovi rulaju...još ih možeš i kloknut, pa da sve bude još efikasnije.

P.S. Kakva je fotografomanija zahvatila Crnu Goru...ludilooo!!

[VanjaTheMan]

Moj Q6600 na 3.2Ghz moze lagano radit jos najmanje 3 godine a imam ga vec dvije bez ikakvih problema. Upgrade ne mislim da radim u skorije vrijeme osim ako mi neke velike pare ne ulete pa cisto da se izivljavam.

[Loverclocker]

pa i ja mislim da će meni dosta trajat konfa...uz neđe grafičku i još rama....mada razmišljam o q9550 dosta...ak naleti kakav dobar polovni deal...

[Drug Tito]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...ch_Issues.html

[Loverclocker]

Athlon II X2 270u comes in Q3 2010

2.0GHz, 25W dual-core
AMD has one more ultra low power based on C3 revision of the Regor dual-core and this time we are talking about the Athlon II X2 270u low power CPU. This is a 25W dual-core that supports DDR3 1333, has 2MB of cache and fits in AM3 motherboards.

This model tops the previous king of this market, the 25W Athlon II X2 260u clocked at 1.8GHz. For a new core revision, the Athlon II X2 270u offers a lot, as it has a 200MHz higher clock, but still retains the same 25W TDP.

Low power computing enthusiast will definitely be happy about this CPU but the only thing is that these products are priced quite high, but a 25W TDP obviously has to have its price.

If you don’t really need a 25W TDP you can get an Athlon II X 260 at 3.2GHz and 65W TDP for $75 which is half the price of Athlon II X2 270u.

često mi se desi da imam drugu makinu, fanless total silent... zna se koji CPU je tu...
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How AMD failed to materialize its ATI dream

Two out of three goals in four years
AMD acquired ATI back in the summer of 2006 and one of the first announcements was that AMD got ATI for Fusion, chipsets, graphics and platforms, but in early 2007 we had a chance to meet with executive Vice President, Computing Products Group at AMD Mr Mario Rivas who told us the three key goals. Lets me remind you that Mario departed from AMD shortly after this article, here.

He mentioned three goals and it is interesting to take a look at the goals today, three and a half years on, as AMD failed in two out of three so far.

The first point was to get graphics, as AMD cared about graphics and they did a decent job so far, at least in games market. The GPGPU market is almost nonexistent for AMD, but at least they have a desire to try to make some money there. AMD's has also managed to churn out quite impressive IGPs over the past three years, and it's still going from strenght to strenght.

The second point was to profit from DTV, handheld market that was supposed to grow to a 2 billion a year. Well, AMD sold that business to Qualcomm for a lousy $65 million as it could not grow it past $400 million so argument two went down the toilet. Spending $5.6 billion and selling its second most important business units for a $65 millions doesn’t sounds like a good deal, unless someone has made you an offer you cannot refuse. Qualcomm got a lot of multimedia and graphics patents from ATI and can continue to compete.

The third and probably most important reason is called Fusion. It was scheduled for late 2008 or some point of 2009, it got canceled a few times and we expect its first iteration to at least launch in limited numbers with the Ontario 40nm part, which was supposed to take on Intel's Atom.

The real Fusion, Llano is scheduled for 2011, probably the latter half of the year, but we are not sure about the schedule as it tends to shift. So, as you can see $5.6 billion spent to buy ATI was not something that helped AMD improve its performance in the short term, but from 2011 on, it will all make much more sense.

AMD also sold a big chunk of its fabs, all except a 28 percent stake, to Abu Dabi-based investment fund ATIC, the company managed to survive the first four years and become profitable. If only AMD hadn't made such a big mess with K10 and the overblown TLB bug and if only they could beat Intel the in mobile segment, or at least get more competitive, it would truly become a great company.

AMD is getting better, there is no doubt about that, but the company failed to fulfill most of the long term goals of its $5.6 billion acquisition. The costly ATI acquisition was followed by K10 issues and by the time AMD got back on track the economy took a nosedive, at the worst possible time. However, AMD has managed to recover some ground in the desktop market over the past several quarters, thanks to its affordable Phenom II and Athlon II parts. In recent weeks, AMD also scored several significant design wins in the mobile market and it's currently dominating the graphics market with a massive lead over Nvidia.

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AMD starts a new campaign: "Gaming Evolved"

AMD's Gaming Evolved program is said to "help create the best possible gaming experience on the world's best gaming platform -- the PC." Now it does not come from my mouth; the PC is the best gaming platform. AMD said it, even though its graphics division also developed many console GPUs; the Flipper, Xenos and Hollywood processors hidden in the GameCube, the XBox360 and the Wii, respectively.

Back on topic, AMD's Gaming Evolved program focuses on three main points:
[Its] commitment to create gaming innovation
[Its] promise to nurture open industry standards
[Its] pledge to support the PC gaming industry

[VanjaTheMan]

Ovo moze ozbiljno da ugrozi nvidiu. I treba. ATI sve sto radi radi sa open source programom a nvidia ko sebicno deriste iz komsiluka drzi sve tranjave ekskluzive koje ni ne rade dobro. AMD oce da napravi open source physics, open source 3d itd. Sve to ce da podstakne ljude da kupuju njihove graficke. Dobar potez od strane AMD-a i dobra vijest za PC gaming scenu.

[Loverclocker]

e hebi ga, ATI treba da izdržava sebe, svoj softver, svoj razvoj, svoj marketing, i PLUS sve to od AMD-a, da ih nije bilo, riknuo bi AMD davno.

a šišnjari zeleni se svuđe živo uvališe, radilo ne radilo, nebitno je, donosi profit

[Loverclocker]

New AMD parts listed and coming


Semprons, Athlons, Phenoms, the lot

AMD has started shipping two new no thrills processors, but a couple of more interesting parts are still on the way.

The new Sempron 145 is the fastest Sargas single-core to date, with a 2.8GHz clock and a price tag of around €35.

The Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition is a bit more interesting. It is a Callisto-based dual core clocked at 3.3GHz. It packs 1MB of L1 and 6MB of L3 cache and has an 80W TDP. At 3.3GHz, it’s the fastest AMD dual-core and one of the highest clocked AMD parts in general. It costs €100 and it has an unlocked multiplier.

The Athlon II X3 450 is AMD’s latest triple-core and it seems like a rather good deal. This Rana-based part is clocked at 3.2GHz, it has 1.5MB of L2 cache and no L3 cache whatsoever. It has a 95W TDP and it’s listed at €86 which sounds more than reasonable.

There’s also a new six-core on the way. The 1075T is based on the Thuban core, however, it’s not inhabited by smug cats and it won't try to destroy the earth. It’s clocked at 3.0GHz, has a 125W TDB, but we still don’t have the price.

[Loverclocker]

The Misunderstanding - Presented by AMD


A humorous look at the risks of using anything but an ATI Radeon graphics card for gaming. A short film presented by AMD.

[Drug Tito]

^^ Bacaj AMD Radeon info na drugi topic, da se ne guzva sve na jednom topicu.

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Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday revealed numerous details about the Bulldozer micro-architecture, which will power the company's next-generation central processing units (CPUs) for desktops, servers and workstations. Apparently, the main goal of AMD's designers when it came to Bulldozer was to ensure maximum sharing of resources within multi-core microprocessors to get high performance amid moderate low power and die sizes.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...rocessors.html