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AMD fans might be looking forward to Piledriver, but the Sunnyvale chip maker isn't quite ready to move on from Bulldozer. On the contrary, AMD today sent out a message announcing two new FX-Series Bulldozer chips -- AMD FX-4170 and FX--6200 -- along with a price cut to its existing FX-8120 processor with eight processing cores clocked at 3.1GHz (4GHz via Turbo Core).
The newly minted FX-4170 processor is a quad-core part clocked at 4.2GHz (4.3GHz via Turbo Core). It has 4MB of L2 cache, a 125W TDP, and a northbridge clockspeed of 2.2GHz. The FX-4170 is AMD's top-clocked quad-core chip.
On the six-core front, the new sherrif in town is AMD's FX-6200, a hexacore part that runs at 3.8GHz (4.1GHz via Turbo Core). It has 6MB of L2 cache and the same TDP as the FX-4170 (125W). AMD didn't list its northbridge speed, which will probably be 2.2GHz.
Lastly, AMD is cutting the price of its FX-8120 and FX-6100 processors. The FX-8120 has been reduced from $199 to $185, and the FX-6100 from $149 to $145. No word on how much the new processors will cost.
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Keith E. Whisman
February 28, 2012 at 3:38pm
They need to switch over to a quad channel memory controller along with actually improving the performance. Right now the only thing that is keeping them afloat is probably the graphics division and APU products. I can't imagine them staying in business for long if they don't get their collective heads out of their asses and start designing and building CPU's that actually perform.
surfmore72
February 28, 2012 at 9:22pm
you guys and your benchmarks are so distracted from what AMD is doing and how they stay relevant. Providing low priced chips that offer comparable performance (albeit lower performance) all the while providing an easy upgrade path... Yes i'd love to run intel's new chips but i'm strapped for cash and when i build i look into the future so that my machine can still game and crunch video with the best of them. Intel's history of new chip's not being backwards compatible hurts them (and helps AMD) in my book. Thank you AMD for doing what you do best. My CPU (AMD 955) performs great. It does everything i need it to.
