Processors Zacate from AMD are faster than the Core i5

AMD, presented a modern platform Zacate, argues that the new generation of APU's performance over a Core i5 and even used two demo to prove its allegations. These processors feature integrated GPU, and is the result of the Fusion architecture and core Llano, facing delays in the difficulty of lithography 32nm, as well as being its youngest members.


The claim that the newer chip is to perform better than the last generation of processors from Intel, based on two demos and a sample of Zacate, who had two cores Bobcat, but to provide more information . In the adversary system was a Core i5, with a core speed of 2,4 GHz. In the demo of Internet Explorer 9 called "Pyschedelic Browsing" The difference was really chaotic. The second presentation was based on the game City of Heroes, by simple movement of the character to take an average number of frames per second. The performance of the Core i5 was the order of 15-20 fps, while Zacate exceeded 30 fps.Although the most likely release date is in early 2011, so far there is no official announcement. More information and presentations are due in November.

Overclocked at 7.3GHz for Intel Core i5 655K

Overclocker Duck managed to overturn the record overclocking the Core i5 655K from Intel, launching its incidence in 7307.8MHz. As we know, such frequencies are high demands on the cooling and the duck used liquid nitrogen to keep the CPU temperature low enough to function normally.



The great leap from the factory frequency of 3.2GHz to 7.3GHz was achieved by increasing the bus 221.5MHz, while the coil reached 33. The voltaz went to 2.011V. The system that became the new record-110MHz more than the previous record of Core i5 655K-contained motherboard EVGA P55 3X SLI Classified, graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 to the factory frequencies and 2GB A-DATA DDR3 at 1328 MHz.



The world record in absolute terms regardless of the model still has a Celeron 347 in 65nm, who has reached unrealistic frequency of 8.2GHz. Processors to AMD, the crown keeps the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition with a frequency of 7127MHz.

More information about AMD's APUs

AMD has revealed little more about the upcoming Accelerated Processor Units (APUs) to be released in 2011. The authors of a special Press who visited the exhibition IFA 2010 won the first information on APU codenamed Zacate. As it became known, the upcoming Fusion processor will consume 18 watts.



Compared to Ontario, the Zacate consumes twice stream, so probably talking about more CPU operating frequency from Ontario, although AMD declined to give details. The Zacate should form the basis for nettops and low performance desktop systems, and will be used in notebooks. Like Ontario, it will be manufactured by the method of 40nm, and will contain two cores, built around the architecture Bobcat.



The code names we know so far for the new AMD processors are Ontario, Zacate, Llano and Orochi, the latter being addressed in the market for servers.

The new graphics card from AMD with dual-GPU

AMD announced the official release of new graphics card Radeon HD 5970.

In a ceremony held yesterday, AMD announced the worldwide availability of new dinuclear graphics card Hemlock, a series of HD.

The card has two 725MHz Cypress RV870 cores on a single PCB (Printed Circuit Board), the Radeon HD 5970, which is currently the most powerful graphics card available in the market. The new product has the most features of the architecture used in the HD5870. This means that the card has 2x1600 compute shaders, 2x1GB GDDR5 to 1GHz (4GHz speed dynamic), HDMI, dual DL-DVI-I, mini DisplayPort, and incorporates technology Eyefinity. Also, the new model incorporates technology DirectX 11.

This card, however, might be a real challenge for system builders, since the length reaches 33.02 cm.

Catalyst 10.8 (ati drivers)

AMD provided the public with the latest version of Catalyst drivers for graphics cards company. At first glance, the 10.8 version is not particularly interesting, but the more observant noticed that the last Catalyst broach code names from the upcoming (in 2010) Graphics Card Radeon HD 6000. The list includes the known code names and Cayman Barts, as well as less familiar Antilles, Blackcomb and Whistler.

IBM announced the fastest processor in the world

The quad-core desktop PC with an operating frequency above 3.0GHz considered for some time high-performance products, but the processor has just announced that IBM is giving new meaning to the word "speed." The innovative company has the technical specifications of the z196, with new quad-core processor (default) frequency of operation is set at unrealistic levels of 5.2GHz.



Thus, the z196 is automatically designated as the fastest processor in the world, taking the crown from the IBM Power6 4.7GHz. The z196 has no more, no less, 1.4 billion transistors, or about 300 million more than the exapyrinous processors from Intel. All this in an area of 512 square millimeters, made using the technology of 45 nanometers.



Each core has 1.5MB L2 cache and the shared L3 eDRAM cache has a capacity of 24MB. It is not, so the possibilities of the new processor that IBM has decided to add and L4 cache, which connects different processors in a multi-chip module (MCM). We are talking about a common L4 cache capacity 192MB, through liaison with speed 40GB per second.



Of course, this processor is not addressed in the mainstream market and will contribute the exclusive mainframes to IBM. The price has not been announced yet, but I will move the region of hundreds of thousands of euros less per item.