Good Goin' AMD!

[John P. Myers]

*Sigh* how embarrassing (http://www.legitreviews.com/news/11977/) :/


It appears that AMD has made a minor goof when it comes to transistor count on their recently released AMD FX 8-core processors. mmhmm

[Fire$torm]

Lame.......

[DrPop]

What I would like to know is: one count with or without the L3 cache? Also, who did the stupidness - the engineers reporting the wrong number, or the marketing people just pulling a number out of thin air? (:|

[zombie67]

I am not sure of several things:

o who made the mistake? and does it matter?

o was it a mistake or a deception? and does it matter?

o does this matter anyway? I mean. who buys a chip on the number of transistors?

o so...should I care about any of this?

[John P. Myers]

o does this matter anyway? I mean. who buys a chip on the number of transistors?

o so...should I care about any of this?

most likely the number of transistors were indicative to some ppl about what the performance might be like. They might figure something like "well since this chip has 2bil transistors it should perform pretty closely to an intel chip with the same". And that may have accounted for alot of the pre-market hype that came along with the chip and got many interested in it....until the benchies came...

Then people were wondering how a chip with 2bil transistors could be such a total piece of crap? now we know :)

[zombie67]

Ah! My engine will have 20 cylinders!

[rgathright]

AMD marketing cheated all of us with these new Interlagos Opterons. b-(
1) Release dates were completely wrong (October was the expected arrival date).
2) The benchmarks show that these chips only offered more cores and no performance increase.

32 dedicated cores on two chips... I still want my Bulldozers and will get them in my hands soon.:cool:

In my humble opinion, AMD only used these new processors to fine tune the 32nm die. :mad:

[kaptainkarl1]

Bulldozer is still a multithread monster. I am still working on building an AMD machine regardless.

[DrPop]

Yes, given the right workload, it can perform decently. Well, it does perform a lot more like a 1.2Bil transistor chip than a 2Bil one! So, I guess I'm more apt to believe the new number. ;)
I don't think it matters too much (the number fiasco, I mean), but it does explain why so many were fired from the company lately - - a serious case of one department not communicating well with another department, and stupid decisions being made.
We can only hope they really get their act together and soon, so that Intel has a little competition. That is good for everyone, including both companies and consumers.