Piledriver is derived from Bulldozer, and AMD claims a 29 per cent performance increase in productivity applications over the Llano processor's cores. Trinity processors, which will inherit the Llano processors' A-series designations, have the same 32nm process as the Llano models, but instead of two or four K10.5 cores have one or two x86 modules, each of which contains two Piledriver processor cores. The new chips are certainly very different to their predecessors. AMD provided us with a prototype laptop containing one of the new processors - see how it performs in our in-depth test. I know this is off topic, but i was wondering could you post me some benchies from your Core 2 extreme? I'm thinking of upgrading to one of those but i wana see the speed difference between my D930 4.2 and an 圆800.AMD is bullish about the prospects for Trinity, with its President and CEO Rory Read describing the product as 'fundamentally awesome' and 'faster than Llano in every dimension'. just not as clear and certain as AMD fanboys would have you believe. To put it all simply, the future doesn't look bright for AMD. What happens when they take it to 45nm? Then, one wonders how K8L wil compete against Nehalem - that'll be interesting. Conroe has shown that it can scale very high at 65nm. K8L will probably compete against Wolfdale (The Conroe shrink) and whatever quad core intel has on the maket at that time. Its competitior is (AFAIK) the AMD mobile chip codenamed 'Bulldozer.' Now, I have no idea when Intel will release a true quad core - it took this long for them to introduce a true dual core. I would be very disappointed if it does not outperform the Core CPUs, because K8L will be about a year after Core.īut then, Intel is set to replace Core by 2008 which would be a year after K8L.įirst, Penryn is a 45nm shrink of Merom. However, I agree with your basic assumption, I think K8L will be better than the Core architecture. So, it will be whole different proposition.

Yeah, Kentsfield is 2 Conroes in one package.īut by the time K8L is out, or even paper-launched, its competitor will most probably be Penryn, which is a 'true' quad core. Click to expand.Kentsfield is a Two-Conroes-Glued-Togeather CPU and if as predicted, AMD's quad cores are K8L they're also true quad cores and get more advantages.

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