wraggster
November 9th, 2015, 19:45
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Processor makers regularly exaggerate the performance of their chips (remember Intel's obsession with clock speed (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/pentium-4-takes-on-modern-cpus-in-a-benchmarking-showdown/)?), but AMD is learning that there are limits around what you can claim. It's facing a class action lawsuit (http://legalnewsline.com/stories/510646458-amd-faces-suit-over-alleged-misrepresentation-of-new-cpu) accusing the company of misleading buyers about the number of cores in its Bulldozer (http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/24/amds-bobcat-and-bulldozer-2011-flagship-cpu-cores-detailed-to/)-based CPUs. It would advertise that a given processor had eight cores, for example, when it effectively had four -- each core in AMD-speak was really half of a module, and couldn't operate independently. As such, that Bulldozer part couldn't handle as many simultaneous instructions as you'd expect in a true eight-core design. That was bound to be a disappointment if you were a performance junkie expecting eight-way computing in your gaming PC or server.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/07/amd-processor-core-class-action-lawsuit/
Processor makers regularly exaggerate the performance of their chips (remember Intel's obsession with clock speed (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/pentium-4-takes-on-modern-cpus-in-a-benchmarking-showdown/)?), but AMD is learning that there are limits around what you can claim. It's facing a class action lawsuit (http://legalnewsline.com/stories/510646458-amd-faces-suit-over-alleged-misrepresentation-of-new-cpu) accusing the company of misleading buyers about the number of cores in its Bulldozer (http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/24/amds-bobcat-and-bulldozer-2011-flagship-cpu-cores-detailed-to/)-based CPUs. It would advertise that a given processor had eight cores, for example, when it effectively had four -- each core in AMD-speak was really half of a module, and couldn't operate independently. As such, that Bulldozer part couldn't handle as many simultaneous instructions as you'd expect in a true eight-core design. That was bound to be a disappointment if you were a performance junkie expecting eight-way computing in your gaming PC or server.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/07/amd-processor-core-class-action-lawsuit/