Leaked Box Art: AMD FX is back!

Images were leaked recently that appear to be the box art for the new Bulldozer architecture CPUs from AMD. While we are not yet certain of their authenticity (we will have to wait for an official announcement), there is no Phenom or Athlon branding. Instead, these chips will rekindle the FX moniker which was last used for the top of the line series from AMD back in the K8 days. The codename, Zambezi, and the “Unlocked and Loaded” tagline clearly suggest that you will have room to play with the clockspeed. AMD appears to feel confident about their new architecture against the Intel competitor, Sandy Bridge, thanks to their initial testings and wafer yield results.

These images appear to be for the oct-core and quad-core chips, but the Zambesi-based chips will be released in three flavors:

Eight cores, with 8MB L3 Cache
Six cores, with 8MB L3 Cache
Four cores, with 4MB L3 Cache

Looking at the L3 cache specifications, it looks like the hex-core chips are in fact oct-cores with disabled cores. Hopefully this means that overclockers will be able to re-enable the disabled cores, as has been done for the current range of dual- and tri-core Phenom chips. We’ll find out a lot more about the new chips in June, and we can’t wait.

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David

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#1 Mar 18, 2011

:drool:

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Dolk

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#2 Mar 18, 2011

The red is going to clash with the 6 Phenom II boxes I already have on display :(

blamauci

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#3 Mar 18, 2011

those boxes look beautyful

deff gonna uprade to bulldozer

netmask

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#4 Mar 18, 2011

omg....

I.M.O.G.

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#5 Mar 19, 2011

Weren't these questioned as quite possibly fakes due to the chips used on the boxes?

those boxes look beautyful
deff gonna uprade to bulldozer

Half of me wants to laugh, the other half wants to inflict pain upon you. :)

Neuromancer

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#6 Mar 19, 2011

*** box, hope the CPU in it is magical :)

sick of Intel getting all the press lately.

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Dooms101

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#7 Mar 19, 2011

Weren't the FX chips wayyy expensive back when they were out? I hope Bulldozer prices are good, and that chip on that box looks kinda odd. In fact, isn't there a picture of an AM3+ board going around? I remember the picture of the AM3+ socket (assuming it's not fake) looking just like a AM3 socket. The chip on the box definitely looks like a land grid array (LGA) socket like an socket F opteron, even the notches on the sides match the opteron's.

MattNo5ss

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#8 Mar 19, 2011

The LGA pic is definitely odd...

The only FX I know is Super FX :thup:

#9 Mar 19, 2011

I've only seen Intel CPUs with the notches and heatspreaders that look like that. :shrug:

#10 Mar 19, 2011

Yeah the price chart is wrong on the most recent "release"

I trust in German engineering.

Will it beat Sandy B? Dunno.. it is AMD after all.. Ivy is around the corner.

22nm vs AMD 32nm.

Straight up (running sandyB now) not sure Intel has proven themselves yet.. ring topology is weakness despite their advertising saying it is a 98GBps topology.

Just saying...AMD could tromp it easily (despite the packaging).

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