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AMD released a graphic novel titled "The Legend of FX" last week in a rather strange effort to build some hype for the brand's revival later this year. The Legend of FX takes some jabs at Intel while touting AMD's superior graphics and improved performance, but it's the recently posted cinematic trailer promoting the novel itself that brings a juicy tidbit: hidden at 0:15 is the date "September 19" which some have taken as a hint for when FX will see the light of day.
WCCFTech claims to have confirmed a September launch date with Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers and says four processors will make the initial FX lineup -- the FX-8150, FX-8100, FX-6100 and FX-4100.
The range-topping FX-8150 packs eight cores clocked at 3.6 GHz (or up to 4.2GHz in Turbo mode) and has a TDP of 125W, while the FX-8100 drops frequencies to 2.8-3.7GHz and the power rating to 95W. The six-core FX-6100 and quad-core FX-4100 will also have a TDP of 95W and feature base/Turbo clocks of 3.3/3.9 GHz and 3.6/3.8 GHz, respectively.
The chips are all based on GlobalFoundries' 32nm process technology, come in an AM3+ package, and have a built-in dual-channel DDR3-1866 memory controller. They also feature 1MB of L2 cache per core, 8MB of shared L3 cache, and unlocked multipliers. A previous leak covered here mentioned four additional FX chips and a possible delay into Q4 of 2011, so until we get an official announcement from AMD we won't know for sure.
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dividebyzero said:Indeed, remember the good ole days when Ruby was all kick ***....and all woman?!
Probably a little too overt and threatening for AMD's perceived fan-base it would seem.
[link] ...which is about the same amount of time AMD spent getting the concept together.
...to the point i was wondering if it was a fake, cuz...Damn! But after seeing some previous AMD campaign efforts, I am not surprised.
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yRaz said:zillion said:
Lol u think! im quite sure the only ones "appreciating" the FX series for the story would be .....and wait for it......Amd fanbois.....
Remember the FX-60? It put every Intel part to shame in it's day.
So because of the FX-60 and the "story/blodline" of the FX series u would appreciate the new Fx more even, and i dont claim it to, would suck?
Im just saying that story means nothing when it is a shallow one, it is and will always only be a cpu, nothing more or anything less.
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...to the point i was wondering if it was a fake, cuz...Damn! But after seeing some previous AMD campaign efforts, I am not surprised.
AMD seem quite proud of their effort...it's pasted all over their site...so, I'd sincerely doubt that it's a fake (I think a fake would be more plausible and have a higher degree of creative content...IMO)
"Crush opponents with responsive game play and awesome mega-tasking performance from the AMD FX 8-Core Processor Black Edition."-Product Info box (lower right hand side of page linked above).
Hopefully BD turns up soon....I've been waiting too long to do some mega-tasking, and I'm eager to see how the CPU will help me crush game opponents.
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HiDDeNMisT said:
I agree with david. I also doubt its a fake and besides who would want 8 cores running at 4.2 GHz.
Who knows maybe AMD might overthrow Intel.
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Mikymjr said:
Doesn't it seem like they're portraying 8, FX processors (the other 8 besides the girl in red), and the girl in red is like the Graphics processor =P. I think i'm to excited
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Hopefully BD turns up soon....I've been waiting too long to do some mega-tasking, and I'm eager to see how the CPU will help me crush game opponents.
I wonder what exactly is entailed in a 'mega-task'...as opposed to an extra large task.....or an extra medium task for that matter.
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AMD pumped too much money on RND
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Most of the readers on this site have always been on the lamer side of perceptions. It isn't Anime, as so labeled by the weak attempt at humor on AMD's part in the mock up comi(x). It's more US artistry than anything else. Actual Anime would have had a much better concept and design work, hell even Marvell and DC would have had a better presentation. It's flash based animation because it is a short comic.
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It isn't Anime,
...only a matter of time before the Pokemon fatwa gets announced huh? Remember to send out a suicide bomber to every heathen who dares take anime/manga in jest (make sure they get their after-school snacks first- nothing worse than a scratchy, explosives laden kid)
It's more US artistry than anything else.In much the same way that Denny's is US gastronomy ?
It's flash based animation because it is a short comic.It's flash based animation because it's cheap.
Moreover, it's an insult to the intelligence of anyone who might possibly be in BD's buying demographic. It's not clever, it's not original, and worst of all, it shows little more than AMD's insecurity by focusing on a larger and more successful market competitor rather than highlighting their own product.
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I'm currently running an X6 1090T in combination with a Gigabyte 890GPA which is AM3.
Smooth as, no complaints.
As the 8 core FX-8150 is going to be relatively cheap when released in October?
(according to some insider from Turkey) I'll probably buy one but .......
Question: Will I need an AM3+ motherboard or will the CPU be backwards compatible.
On a bit of a tangent. I use (2) 32 Gb I-Ram SSD's in raid 0 to boot the system and run a
few apps with an old 300Gb Raptor for storage.
I was checking out a Facebook video on the new OCZ Revodrive X2. The guy ran some tests
and it's sequential read speed was 650Mb/s and 120,000 IOPS.
Boot time from' power on' to password prompt was 40 secs. My SSD's (sata 2) do the same thing in 42 secs and I wouldn't know how they rate in terms of IOPS.
I read in another review that the Revodrive X2 could read at 1500Mb/s, which really did blow my
hair back.
Sounds like fladulation and is probably without foundation, but I like symmetry i.e. 64 bit
operating system, 8 or 16 Gb RAM, 32 or 64 Gb boot drive and hopefully the 8 core CPU.
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that was brilliant
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