AMD Bulldozer Engineering Sample Overclocked to 4.63GHz
AMD Bulldozer Engineering Sample Overclocked to 4.63GHz
Posted 06/28/2011 at 7:23am
| by Paul Lilly
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An overclocker from the Czech Republic somehow managed to get his mitts on an engineering sample of AMD's FX-8130P "Zambezi" processor built around the chip maker's Bulldozer architecture and did what any responsible enthusiast would do. He slapped the 8-core ES chip into his rig, pushed the pedal to the metal, and overclocked it as far it would go on air, which turned out to be 4635.6MHz.
Details on this upcoming part are few and far between, and not a whole lot was revealed in the uploaded CPU-Z screenshots that have been partially blacked out. We know the chip has 8 cores, 8MB of L3 cache, supports DDR3-1866MHz and a handful of instruction sets, and is built on a 32nm manufacturing process. There's no mention of the processor's default clockspeed (only that it runs "no less than 3GHz"), stepping, or revision number.
In any event, the overclock resulted in a Super Pi 1M score of 1.29s with the CPU voltage going a little over 1.5V.
Image Credit: obrovsky.blogspot.com
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Rift2
June 29, 2011 at 6:56am
It's so fast it will play all of those videogame console ports on Max =)
codyandbecca
June 28, 2011 at 1:32pm
This says you can get a new 8 core Bulldozer for about $400, come on Maximum PC, do us a favor and set things right. http://wccftech.com/amd-bulldozer-3ghz-8-core-fxcpu-es-sale-price-7000czk-4060us/21507/
Thamuza
June 28, 2011 at 11:15am
It was previously stated on another site that this may be faked due to the fact that the version of CPU-Z used was previous to the version that was updated to recognize the Bulldozer CPU.
Keith E. Whisman
June 28, 2011 at 9:39am
Post another article on the theory behind the design and the basic specs like it's actually a quad core with two processing cores per actual core so two cores work together per single threaded instruction?
Caboose
June 28, 2011 at 11:48am
That'd be awesome. Would blow hyper-threading out of the water. 2 Physical processing cores per core Vs. 1 real and 1 virtual.
I think I'm getting a chubby...
yu119995
June 28, 2011 at 9:21am
I'm an admitted AMD fanboy but if this wasn't done on air then I can't really sing the praises of BD yet. i7 2600's are OC'ing into the high 4's these days at about 1.37V. i5's aren't too far behind either. Come on AMD!!!
Having said that, this could very well be a fake. At the very least it's an engineering sample.
pcwizmtl
June 28, 2011 at 9:43am
"He slapped the 8-core ES chip into his rig, pushed the pedal to the metal, and overclocked it as far it would go on air, which turned out to be 4635.6MHz."
;)
Although, I do want more proof... pretty impressive if it isn't fake...
Weezey
June 28, 2011 at 8:23am
Dear God... O.O
1.5v for 4.6 ON AIR!?!? I want this chip, and I want it now.
Thanks for the article Paul, been waiting for this.
kixofmyg0t
June 28, 2011 at 8:22am
O.O
A Super Pi time of 1.29 seconds? The fastest Sandy Bridge chip over clocked to 6.3Ghz still takes over SIX seconds to do that.... If this is true then Bulldozer is the AMD fans have been waiting for. I'm glad to see AMD making a comeback.
Super Pi is single threaded btw...which no doubt still benifits from Bulldozers unique approach to "core's". This thing should slay....and it's not even a Fusion chip.
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