AMD Speed problems with the new Bulldozer/Zambezi cpus

[Saithes]

Are you sure about that? From what I understand, it's 2 cores per module. The 8 core will be 4 Modules, the 6 core will be 3 modules, and the 4 core will be 2 modules. I was also under the impression that each module is treated like 1 core in terms of multi-threading, and further distribution of each thread is done at the chip level per module. That is, the workload of a single thread would be distributed between the two cores within the module it is assigned to.

It is two cores per module.

Proof:


There are 4 FP Schedulers's for each module of 2 cores that have 1 Int Scheduler per modular core.

So that's...
8 Int Schedulers
8 Modular Cores
4 Modules
4 FP Schedulers

[Docphil]

It's a shame I'm not patient enough to wait. Sandybridge here I come. I do have to admit that having a CPU at 4.0 will be nice since I've never had anything over 2.7.

[Xuvial]

It's a shame I'm not patient enough to wait. Sandybridge here I come. I do have to admit that having a CPU at 4.0 will be nice since I've never had anything over 2.7.

You mean 4.5, buy an aftermarket cooler and doooo eeeet

[Asera]

Are you sure about that? From what I understand, it's 2 cores per module. The 8 core will be 4 Modules, the 6 core will be 3 modules, and the 4 core will be 2 modules. I was also under the impression that each module is treated like 1 core in terms of multi-threading, and further distribution of each thread is done at the chip level per module. That is, the workload of a single thread would be distributed between the two cores within the module it is assigned to.

This. The split pipes in each module don't show up as 1 core 2 threads like the i7's.

It will show up as 2/2, 4/4, 8/8, etc etc. Dividing the count of threads or cores in half will tell you how many "modules" are in the chip.

[dicertification]

Ok now it's making sense. Just the earlier statement of and 8 core being a quad core made no sense to me as it seems a step backwards as far as tech goes. Now a Quad core being 8 cores to the OS makes sense.

core =/= module