14 DAY TRIAL // At this year's Computex fair, AMD promised that it will deliver its first FX-Series desktop processors based on the high-performance Bulldozer architecture in August of September of this year, but it now seems like this launch date was yet again delayed as sources indicate the first such chips will actually arrive in October.
According to an unnamed source cited by Xbit Labs, AMD wanted to make its Zambezi processor lineup broader and more competitive, this probably forcing the company to postpone the launch of its CPUs.
Judging by the information that is available at this point in time, AMD will launch the FX-Series processors in two different batches.
The first one of these will arrive in October of this year and includes seven chips, four of which feature eight processing cores.
These CPUs are known as the FX-8150, the FX-8100 and the FX-8120, the last one to be mentioned following to be available in two SKUs, one with a 125W and one with a 95W TDP.
The base operating speed of the eight-core parts will range from 2.8GHz to 3.6GHz, and all of them include 8MB of Level 3 cache memory as well as 8MB of L2 cache.
Moving down in AMD's FX-Series lineup we find the six-core FX-6100, which has its L2 cache memory reduced from 8MB to 6MB, while the base and Turbo speeds are set at 3.3GHz and 3.9Ghz, respectively.
The amount of Level 2 cache memory is yet again reduced when we get to the two quad-core FX-4170 and FX-4100 processors, which now come with “just” 4MB of such high-speed memory. As far as the operating clocks are concerned, these are set at a rather high 3.6GHz or 4.2GHz.
All the processors that were detailed are based on AMD's Zambezi 32nm core, carry 8MB of shared L3 cache, an integrated DDR3 1866MHz dual-channel memory controller, sport an unlocked multiplier and are compatible with AM3+ motherboards.
