New Generation of AMD Processors Announced

[Bob The Great]

:D

Wow I love AMD!!!!

[Tekkitan]

SWEEEET! I CANT WAIT! :o)

[Jeffy]

In what ways and how will 64 bit benefit us all? What do they really mean by 64 bit?

[drlabel]

I love AMD...
Let's "Hammer" INTEL ;)

[Kabuki]

Originally posted by Jeffy
In what ways and how will 64 bit benefit us all? What do they really mean by 64 bit?

Jeffy, 64 bit will do a couple of things... it will increase the width of the data path, giving (theoretically) twice the throughput, at the same speed, as the current 32 bit path. This applies to both memory (right?) and interface bus (AGP, PCI). Somebody correct me if I'm missing the boat, but I think that's the right stuff...

[[shawn@localhost /home]#]

did they say the gigaflops rating of this processor? what is the name of this processor?

it can't be that AthlonXP can it becasuse XP is out and this is just like a rumor/being made kind of thing

[meblaise]

Im hoping that with the arrival of a 64 bit amd processor Intels Itanium (which isnt x86 compatible) will dissapear and mac will shut their mouths about their gigaflop rating. My 1.4 athlon @ 1.53 gets around 4.3 GF and a new 64 bit amd cpu @ 4 ghz (i hope?) will most likely be hittin around 10-15...

:p

Im already saving for one lol

[Wilan Wong]

I think AMD is going to release their Hammers at 2GHz, which would be quite fast, theortically it should perform better than a current 4GHz Athlon! How bout that speed!!

[ding]

AT LAST... :D

Hope it won't raise my electricity bills, though. :p

BTW - Are Cyrix/VIA processors completely out of the race?

Ding

[[shawn@localhost /home]#]

the last/fastest Cyrix i heard of was about the equivalent of a celery clocked at 650mhz, same L1 and L2 cache memory (not sure about architecture though)

btw celery sucks so you know :D

[ding]

Cyrix/Via - just checked at VIA website:

866MHz 133FSB 0,15micron Cyrix 3 is their max up to day.

Best regards

Ding

[J.A.D]

I wish the article/press release commented on the heat and cost of the Hammer chips. I like my (single) Athalon but I cooling 8 of em might really make me deaf...if I could afford 8 of them ;)

[[shawn@localhost /home]#]

w00t so basically top of the line cyrix is like a P3 but different architecture huh?

is Cyrix faster than P3 in benchmarks?

[jpivonka]

I am no way qualified to comment, but my impression is that, in addition to the implications for instruction and memory acces speed following from 64 bit processing, it permits addressing of a vastly larger memory address space.

If you chose, you could put gigabytes of memory on a motherboard, for instance. That may have all sorts of implications for system, and application, architectures.