According to reports from China, AMD will next year be releasing a new CPU called Piledriver. Appropriately, given its name, it may well go Zangief all over your games (or at least the games of the future that are actually coded for it), because it’s got ten cores.
Yup. Ten. The catch? All those cores means it won’t ship with any on-board graphics, and will need a new motherboard socket called FM2.
The Piledriver is based on the Bulldozer, which has a paltry eight cores.
AMD’s 10 core Piledriver chips revealed [PC Gamer]
Crhis
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 5:02 PMThat screenshot is from Predator!
Oh sorry, I think I’m in the wrong thread…
Will
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 8:27 AMAhhh Dylan, you’ve been pushing too many pencils!!!
Chris
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 5:03 PMAnd I finally fixed my name!
Sar Selack
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 5:11 PMPiledriver? I think it’s time to go back to numbers.
SOX
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 5:14 PMOcto-cores are a thing right now?
I’m still rolling with my old ass tri-core AMD (it seemed like a good idea at the time..)
doubleDizz
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 5:22 PMRemember that skit on D-Gen about the shaving razor with 40-something blades…
Sar Selack
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 5:30 PMOr, remember this http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/
Corteks
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 5:57 PMHahah I’m reminded of that skit QUITE often. The breakdown of what every blade did was amazing! :P
Simon G
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 7:23 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YleuLyCUx28
Dudesadudedude
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 8:38 PMA few days ago, there was an ad’ on TV for a razor that does, in fact, have 5 blades.. I sh*t you not! hahaha.
Andy
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 9:39 PMthis would be awesome for rendering
MRT3ABAG
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 10:40 PM“DYLAN YOU BASTARD!”
AerintheADEQUATE
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 12:27 AMnow all I can think of is Arnold saying “You SON uvvah BITCH!” :-P
Jiff
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 8:03 AMWhat’s the matter? CIA got you pushing too many PAAHNCILS?
AerintheADEQUATE
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 1:25 AMlol! totally forgot about the “PAAHNCILS” line! I think this calls for an emergency weekend viewing of Predator… and maybe Commando…
MrBS
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 7:38 AM*puts on nerd hat* Crysis didn’t scale well after dual core seeing no real gains with quad core etc so ten core won’t be making a material difference :p
prashy
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 7:48 AMWhatever Intel releases will be better, just going on recent history and not fanboyism.
Benny
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 12:25 PMGET TO THE CHOPPEAAAARGH!
RiPpEr
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 2:36 PMDidn’t Intel already release multi-threaded deca-core CPU’s? They were Xeon branded and disturbingly expensive, and were in LGA 1567 but, still, would be nice to see some affordable CPU’s with more than six cores :P
http://ark.intel.com/products/53580/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-8870-%2830M-Cache-2_40-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI%29
Dylan ashton
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 3:18 PMTrololololololol Bulldozer. What a POS
Vire
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 8:47 AMCan I just ask, why the hell is that a catch? Who would buy a ten core CPU and then use integrated graphics?