Mar 14, 2011 09:11 GMT  ·  By

Details about AMD's upcoming Bulldozer processors seem to abound lately, as after the very first specifications of four of the company's upcoming SKUs made their way onto the Web, pictures depicting the retail packaging of the CPUs also popped up online.

The four boxes depicted on the AMD Forum website are all different, but feature the same design template that uses a white arrow to reveal some of the specs of the CPU models found inside.

Judging by the pictures, it seems that the boxes will be used for AMD's quad and eight-core Bulldozer chips and that all the models carry the FX moniker and belong to the Black Edition processor line.

What this basically means is that the CPUs will be shipped with an unlocked multiplier that should allow for higher overclocks to be reached.

In addition, the box also states that the processors will feature AMD's second generation Turbo Core technology, that can automatically overclock the processor according to the tasks run by the system.

Bulldozer is AMD's next-generation high-performance CPU architecture that was designed from the ground up in order to eliminate some of the redundancies that come with traditional multi-core designs.

As a result, the chip uses a modular construction and each module is of two 128-bit FMA floating point units, which can be combined into one 256-bit FPU, two integer cores, with four pipelines each, as much as 2048KB of L2 cache, and 8MB of shared L3 cache.

The desktop version of the Bulldozer processor is known internally as Zambezi, can feature either four, six or eight processing cores and is compatible with AM3+ socket motherboards.

In addition, the CPUs also feature a dual-channel memory controller and are built using the 32nm SOI fabrication process.

The first Zambezi-based FX processors are expected to hit the market in June.

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