Original Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/4767/pricing-revealed-for-first-amd-bulldozer-fx-chips
Pricing Revealed for First AMD Bulldozer FX Chips
by Andrew Cunningham on September 12, 2011 2:00 PM EST
Though AMD began shipping Bulldozer-based sever CPUs last week, we're still waiting until Q4 for the new architecture to hit the desktop. In the meantime, however, pre-order pricing for the high-end FX-series CPUs (codenamed Zambezi) has been leaked, giving the AMD faithful an idea of how much the new processors will set them back.
AMD Bulldozer FX-series Processors | |||||||
Name | Cores | CPU Clock | L2 Cache | L3 Cache | TDP | Price | |
FX-8150 | 8 | 3.6GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) | 8MB | 8MB | 125W | $266.28 | |
FX-8120 | 8 | 3.1GHz (4GHz Turbo) | 8MB | 8MB | 125W | $221.73 | |
FX-6100 | 6 | 3.3GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) | 6MB | 8MB | 95W | $188.32 |
If you think that these prices seem too low for eight and six-core chips, remember that Bulldozer's architecture is such that a "dual-core" CPU is actually one core with two copies of several hardware features - the CPU is visible to the OS as two cores, but physically each of AMD's cores is somewhere in between Intel's HyperThreading implementation and a "true" dual-core design - you can read Anand's original Bulldozer post for more information on this.
The Bulldozer-based FX-series processors are targeted at the high-end of the market, and therefore do not include an on-board GPU. The 32nm processors will be available in Q4 of this year for socket AM3+ motherboards (and some socket AM3 motherboards with an updated BIOS, though these motherboards may not be able to take advantage of all of Bulldozer's new features).
Source: CPU World