Just two weeks after the debut of Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) quad-core chips, AMD (NYSE: AMD) by the cross of Thursday announced its Quad FX Platform beside Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) architecture.
AMD be tout the Quad FX through mission of the orifice dual-socket, multi-core desktop PC podium designed to occupation with Windows Vista Ultimate. Intel, nevertheless, win first-to-market bragging rights, release its quad-core Xeon 5300 and Core 2 passionate quad-core mainframe programme of products ahead of AMD.
Intel dedicated be accuse of simply slap equally two of its Duo Core processors in establish to charge that first-to-market snob effectiveness. Quad FX is widely branded as a true quad excerpt and is powered by pairs of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-70 cycle dual-core processors.
The latest platform is designed to business in user with maximum narration while gaming, stream and editing high-definition clamour and video thrilled. AMD is jump on an emerging trend toward a multi-threading environment where on earth users can teach several backbreaking abundance and entertainment application all together. The DSDC Architecture come with considered platform upgradability to eight core.
Technically speaking, DSDC Architecture enable high-bandwidth affairs linking matched pairs of AMD Athlon 64 FX-70, AMD Athlon 64 FX-72 and AMD Athlon 64 FX-74 twofold core processors. Users can aim from have twofold the cipher of processor cores in the red to a dual-socket stature, AMD said.
In other libretto, the platform scales with compute-intensive applications. In alike item, it is designed in assistance of an charming upgrade avenue to a entire of eight processing cores with planned AMD experimental quad-core processors in 2007.
The platform is also designed with high-performance, low-latency unbuffered DDR2 lift out and for non-uniform memory access (NUMA) support with compatible operating system.
The AMD Quad FX Platform include 12 SATA controller to enable up and about to nine terabytes of storage using at the jiffy wordless for drive technology, and the endowment to accommodate able to four high-performance graphics cards, the institute said.
Pricing for pairs of the new AMD Athlon 64 FX-70, FX-72 and FX-74 dual-core processors is US$599, $799 and $999, respectively. Intel's new quad cores be selling at price to hand to their predecessor, range from $999 to $1,172.
"Obviously, the Vista platform war are heat up -- and in Quad FX, AMD seem to gross an exciting band together of its dual core technologies and a moment ago acquire Nvidia funds," Chales King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, tell TechNewsWorld.
The eventual glory of the Quad FX will hinge on performance and fee. Performance will depend on comparative benchmarks, which are already starting to spool in. However, the price look aggressive subsequent to Intel's, which is a stern spinal column in high-end desktop products, King predict.