8-core 8130P Pricing Confirmed!

[RobertPters77]

Give me my $89 dollar Dually Dozer, with unlockable cores, AMD.

I was hoping that the introductory Llanos would have BD based cores.

It still perplexes me why Amd chose the Stars architecture and not Bulldozer for Llano.

 

[Skurge]

indeed it is a SKU that allows overclocking but does nothing to performance. So if 8130P positions against the 2600K on performance. then the 8110 which is positionned against the 2600 need the overclock possibility AND an overclock to compete with the 2600 does that sound right?

Just look at it this way:

Hypothetical FX 8c- 2.8GHz same price as an i7 2600 running 3.4GHz
Hypotetical FX 8c 3.2GHz same price as an i7 2600K running 3.4GHz

So which on competes what?
Is it the second one competing an overclockable i7? but that would mean they do not compete against the normal SKU... or is the first one competing to the normal SKU and make their part more actractive because it is oc-able?

I don't believe a company tries to compete on overclockability but on stock performance. and overclockability being a advantage towards an extremen minority of the public.

So for me the cpu classes are FX vs i5-i7 non-K parts.

Well you have to remember that AMD touts overclocking as a feature over the SB CPUs.

 

[Skott]

We need benches

I agree. Everything else talked about here is just purely speculation until we see performance tests.

 

[Phynaz]

I was hoping that the introductory Llanos would have BD based cores.

It still perplexes me why Amd chose the Stars architecture and not Bulldozer for Llano.

Time to market.

 

[Rifter]

yawn, wake me up when benchmarks hit.

 

[deaner]

Server/VM farms would love cheap 8 cores.

AMEN brutha! I have a project that I was looking to go c32, two 6-core. Now with this, one of these 8 core's at 3ghz, outstanding! I didnt need 12 cores, but needed more than 6, user scale. I think this is bl&^dy awesome!

 

[sm625]

When has AMD ever charged the same as Intel for the same performance? They always offer better performance at a set price point. If they are charging $320 then it is going to perform 20% faster than a 2600k.

 

[KingstonU]

I was hoping that the introductory Llanos would have BD based cores.

It still perplexes me why Amd chose the Stars architecture and not Bulldozer for Llano.

AMD actually shocked everyone a couple days ago by demonstrating "Trinity" ES samples are in the wild already. Trinity is 2nd GEN Llano with bulldozer cores. This peeks my interest quite a bit but I'll hold onto my suspicions for now... Either way it's good news.