14 DAY TRIAL // When NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 580 card, AMD provided a fair bit of information on its future processors and it seems that even more information has trickled to the web, this time concerning the upcoming batch of Bulldozer desktop CPUs.
One of the architectures that Advanced Micro Devices is working on goes by the name of Bulldozer and will spawn the first marketable chips next year.
Not too long ago, it was even revealed that the first batch of such processors aimed at servers would debut during the third quarter of 2011.
Now, a new leak has arisen, which holds the alleged availability information on the Bulldozer CPUs designed for the desktop PC segment.
According to said report, the Zambezi central processing units will make their first appearance in late March or early April.
The first chip will be one with 8 actual cores. It will have a TDP (thermal design power) of 125W or 95W and a L3 cache memory of 8 MB.
The second one to arrive will be a 6-core processor with a cache memory of 6 MB. It will supposedly show up around the middle of the second quarter.
Finally, there shall be several quad-core chips, all with a TDP of 95W and a L3 cache of 4 MB.
Unfortunately, the leak held only the roadmap slide and no sort of details on the clock speeds or any other performance numbers.
What was, however, confirmed, though there was hardly any doubt to begin with, is that all of the newcomers will be constructed on the 32nm manufacturing process technology.
Finally, they all will boast the AM3+ package and it will be interesting to see exactly just how much of a performance benefit they deliver over the current chip generation and what that turns the price/performance ratio into.