yup lots of expectation from steam roller heared that it will have huge l2 l3 cache
and might be it will also upto 5GHz mark.
Cilus are you talking about ALU in 3rd line of post
No, I am not talking about ALU. ALU is a part of the Integer execution unit which performs Integer operations. Even a single Core CPU is divided in multiple sub units like Fetch Unit, Decode Unit and multiple Execution units to perform different operations and ALU is one of these execution units. The module based design of AMD is little different, here Fetch, Decode and Out of Execution logic is same for a module but each of the two integer cores have their own sub execution units. So two of the integer cores do have their own ALU.
The Fetch, Decode and Out of Order Execution logic are collaboratively called CPU Front-end which feeds the execution units (Integer and FPU) with instructions and data.
In Intel as well as AMD's older Phenom design, each of the cores has their own frontend. So a 6 Core Phenom II 1090T actually has 6 frontend, each per core, feeding their respective cores. On the other hand in BD and PD design, each of the modules has a single Frontend which feeds data/instructions to two integer cores and one FPU. So they need to be reasonably faster than their old Phenom II Frontend as one Frontend is feeding two physical cores. In Steam Roller, AMD is redesigning their frontend part for better performance. Hope I am clear now.
dude just see their power consumption in mobile platform intel is already advancing to mobile platform while maintaining and increasing their processor efficiency ........ that's really something worth appreciating on the other hand everyone knows u can have more processor power on higher power consumption design...........
AMD does not need to beat haswell in terms of performance but need to be comparable in terms of power consumption. Don't you think if you can get FX-8350 level performance at a power consumption of say i5 2500K level, it will be an attractive buy.
It Laptop platform, AMD is not at all targeting the Intel Core i7 Processors and their offering is basically balanced performance of CPU and GPU in a reasonable lower price point. Their Richland based A10-5750M is only a 35W TDP Processor which packed a Processor as powerful as 3rd Generation Core i5 base models and a HD 7650M level IGP which is quiet interesting actually. Check MSI GX60 review on Anandtech and you will find out that Richland cores can actually keep up with the Haswell ULV Core i7 (2 Core, 4 thread, like an normal Core i5 but with far lower TDP) processors. In RIchland, AMD actually tweaked the power distribution between the CPU and GPU and concentrated more on CPU which can now operate at higher base frequency and also can reach its full Turbo Core speed.
In many reviews, it was reveled that Trinity based APUs (A10-4600M, A8-4500M) were never reaching their maximum turbo even when running the very intensive apps resulting poor performance. In RIchland, that has been addressed. But it is just a smaller update, lets wait for the Steam Roller + GCN + HUMA or Kaveri in a single word.
but still AMD has not locked the OC feature [ hope they will continue this with SR ] so that's a great bit of hope for enthusiasts/overclockers and higher power consumtion does not always translates into more processing power.
