AMD's New Venice Core Shows Overclocking Potential

Vigile writes "It looks like the new Venice core processors from AMD are going to offer more than just 90nm technology through the entire line up. According to this article on PC Perspective, it is going to offer a lot of headroom for future processors as the author was able to overclock their 2.0 GHz sample to 2.8 GHz! I think I hear an FX-61 calling my name!"

Comments

Non-von Neumann Memory Architecture

[MOBE2001]

How about a more intelligent (parallel) architecture to begin with?

Unless you have a way around the von Neumann bottleneck, what intelligent architecture are you thinking about? Adding multiple cores will eventually hit a wall because of memory bus contention. The only solution I see is for someone to create a memory architecture that permits unlimited simultaneous memory access. At that point, fast processors will not matter much. Just have a bunch of cheap processors share a single huge memory space.

Re:Non-von Neumann Memory Architecture

[hyc]

re: unlimited simultaneous memory access - it's called a crossbar switch, and a lot of parallel supercomputers use them. They are fairly expensive, in real $$ and in terms of board space, etc...

The HyperTransport that AMD uses is not a bad interconnect in the meantime, for people on smaller budgets...

Pretty simple..

[cbreaker]

There's plenty of explinations.

Here's some:

A) The chip is designed to run very cool. Overclocking it makes it hot, but it still runs fine. Just very hot.

B) The chip is designed to be run at higher speeds, and the initial offering is clocked-down. This gives AMD a few steps before more core/retooling work.

C) The cooler that comes with the CPU is very good.

Karaman

[Karaman]

I think of AMD64 more as a consumer, then a flame=seeker. Is it the most powerful - NO CLUE Is it stable - YES Is it cooler - YES Is it affordable - YES Is it for a PC - YES Why should I buy anything that is more advertised, but actually too expensive. I dont buy it. Others buy it. But not me! I like my AMD :) IRTFA and I am going to say it once: Overclocking capabilities does not mean just speed, they mean stability under extreme circumstances, therefore granted stability under normal circumstances!