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Posted on 09/14/2011 11:31:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
AMD has set the world record of fastest CPU with a speed frequency of 8.429 GHz, winning the company a place in the Guiness World Records. AMD’s yet-to-ship Bulldozer-based FX chips drew the Guinness ranking for the "Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor." The AMD-FX CPU is set to debut in Q4 2011.
Announced yesterday, the Guiness record news drew kudos and comments from a wide range of sites that closely follow news and events circling rivals AMD and Intel.
Some reports noted the timing of AMD's announcement was made on the opening day of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.The record was actually set at an event in Austin, Texas, on August 31. A special team had been assembled at the Texas event made up of expert overclockers along with AMD technologists and were dubbed Team AMD-FX. Their goal was to attempt record numbers by "overclocking" 8-core AMD FX desktop processors.
They achieved an overclocked frequency of 8.429 GHz on the processors, breaking their former record of 8.308 GHz.
Overclocking refers to the process where technical experts get chips to run at higher than normal speeds.
AMD said they found that the company's FX chips could reach over 5 GHz using normal air cooling or water-cooling rigs that cost less than $100.
Commenting on the record-setting feat, the overclocking review site Overclockers Club made note that only two cores were running throughout the overclock. Having the other cores disabled may have helped the frequency boost, it said, along with the temperature of -235 degrees C to keep the CPU chilled. Nonetheless, the site added that a dual core clocked at 8.429GHz is still an AMD triumph.
Similarly, another site, Overclockers, said the record numbers spell only the beginning and that, looking forward, one might wonder what about 9 GHz. "Pre-production chips historically only scratch the surface of what the architecture is capable of. Given time as fabrication processes and yields improve while more people get their hands on more chips, we could hear reports of AMD seriously flirting with 9 GHz soon enough."
The AMD press statement said that, beside setting world records, the AMD FX processor will enable an "unrivaled enthusiast PC experience" for the money, including extreme multi-display gaming and HD content creation.
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Interesting.
The Intel chip will be way better once they catch up.
What’s their current speed rating?............
Notice this article doesn’t say what this chip was rated at?
Overclocking is a good way to make your CPU smell bad. They must have had one hell of a heat sink on it.
Internal clock speed is not an accurate way of determining performance for CPUs any more. An over-clock using extreme cooling (their cooling method was very uhm...cool) is even a worse way.
The highest end Intel chip currently being benchmarked runs@3.6Ghz however the Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz out performs the Intel Xeon E31280 @ 3.50GHz.
Internal clock speed is not an accurate way of determining performance for CPUs any more. An over-clock using extreme cooling (their cooling method was very uhm...cool) is even a worse way.
The highest end Intel chip currently being benchmarked runs@3.6Ghz however the Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz out performs the Intel Xeon E31280 @ 3.50GHz.
Internal clock speed is not an accurate way of determining performance for CPUs any more. An over-clock using extreme cooling (their cooling method was very uhm...cool) is even a worse way.
The highest end Intel chip currently being benchmarked runs@3.6Ghz however the Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz out performs the Intel Xeon E31280 @ 3.50GHz.
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I’ve built all my PC’s around AMD cpu’s. Currently my 2.6 ghz Phenom II has been running overclocked at 3 ghz for years. From time to time I’ve run it up to 3.4ghz. I’ve been looking forward to the bulldozer cpu’s release to the market. I would really like to know how many giggleherz this one was rated at.
Fascinating stuff. But most of us 'users' just want processors that keep running without fancy cooling. Extreme overclocking is fun if you want more FPS and don't care about killing the chip. Been there, done that.
Ok...that wasn’t me. I clicked post and walked away.
It like guys do with cars. Soup it up, tweak it here, twiddle it there, until you have the ‘bragging rights’ for the time being, until the guy across town can shave off another 0.01 secs.......
You are correct...and it underlines the point that internal clock speed is hardly the most important measure.
Agreed. Back in the days of the PIII, P4 and P5(Non-corrupt), the internal clock speed was important. Now I look at price, # of cores, Cache size, and lastly, clock frequency.
That brings up another good point. It’s not likely that the bulldozer will out perfom the latest and greated intel chip but chances are it will present a better value for it’s performance.
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