14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices made the news for several reasons recently, and it looks like it is getting some spotlight again, what with the overclocking-related rumors circling around.
Advanced Micro Devices can't really claim to have as many, or as powerful, overclocking CPUs (central processing units) as Intel, at least not of the latest generation of Fusion.
This doesn't mean this situation will last, however, even if it does mean that so-called unlocked CPUs will appear as part of a line that was never actually meant for clock tweaking and custom speed rigs.
According to the folks over at X-bit Labs, AMD actually is considering some unlocked CPUs for the A-Series of Fusion units.
Otherwise known as Llano, the existing collection is mainly composed of mainstream chips, with multiple cores and Radeon HD 6000 graphics.
The main reason this would be a bold and unexpected move is the fact that Llano was never meant for high performance, only consistent, decent one.
Nevertheless, there are cases of mainstream chips that, nonetheless, perform excellently in overclocking, such as Intel Core i7-2600K.
The Fusion chips with unlocked multipliers will be released under the K-Series moniker (provided the rumor is true).
Two will make up the list at first, their names being A8-3870K and A6-3670K and their base frequencies holding at 3.0 GHz and 2.70 GHz, respectively.
They will lack Turbo Core (the automatic overclocking technology) and should be released in the fourth quarter of the ongoing year (2011), what with production having already started.
Four “Huski” cores will make up the brunt of the processing force, while Integrated Radeon graphics adapters will feature 400 or 320 Stream processors (the GPU clocks are 600 MHz and 440 MHz, respectively).
As one might expect, AMD did not offer any sort of comment on this latest rumor, the same way it kept silent about having possibly canceled its next-generation APUs.