Piledriver (microarchitecture)

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Piledriver - Family 15h (2nd-gen)
General information
Launchedmid-2012
Common manufacturer(s)
Architecture and classification
Technology node 32 nm SOI GB
Instruction set AMD64 (x86-64)
Physical specifications
Socket(s)
Products, models, variants
Core name(s)
History
Predecessor Bulldozer - Family 15h
Successor Steamroller - Family 15h (3rd-gen)
Support status
iGPU unsupported

AMD Piledriver Family 15h is a microarchitecture developed by AMD as the second-generation successor to Bulldozer. It targets desktop, mobile and server markets. It is used for the AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (formerly Fusion), AMD FX, and the Opteron line of processors.

Contents

The changes over Bulldozer are incremental. Piledriver uses the same "module" design. Its main improvements are to branch prediction and FPU/integer scheduling, along with a switch to hard-edge flip-flops to improve power consumption. This resulted in clock speed gains of 8–10% and a performance increase of around 15% with similar power characteristics. [1] FX-9590 is around 40% faster than Bulldozer-based FX-8150, mostly because of higher clock speed.[ citation needed ]

Products based on Piledriver were first released on 15 May 2012 with the AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), code-named Trinity, series of mobile products. [2] APUs aimed at desktops followed in early October 2012 with Piledriver-based FX-series CPUs released later in the month. [3] [4] Opteron server processors based upon Piledriver were announced in early December 2012. [5]

Design

Piledriver includes improvements over the original Bulldozer microarchitecture: [6] [7]

Features

CPUs

CPU features table

APUs

APU features table

Processors

Desktop

ModelCPUGPUTDP
(W)		DDR3
Memory		Turbo
Core
3.0		Socket
[Modules/FPUs]
Cores/threads 		Freq. (GHz)CacheModelConfigFreq.
(MHz)
BaseTurboL2L3
FX-9590[4]84.75.04× 2MB8MB—2201866Yes AM3+
FX-93704.44.7
FX-83704.04.3125
FX-8370E3.395
FX-83504.04.2125
FX-83203.54.0
FX-8320E3.295
FX-83103.44.395
FX-83003.34.295
FX-6350[3]63.94.23× 2MB125
FX-63003.54.195
FX-4350[2]44.24.32× 2MB125
FX-43204.04.24MB95
FX-43003.84.0
A10-6800K4.14.4—HD 8670D384:24:88441002133 FM2
A10-67003.74.3651866
A10-5800K3.84.2HD 7660D800100
A10-57003.44.076065
A8-6600K3.94.2HD 8570D256:16:8844100
A8-65003.54.180065
A8-5600K3.63.9HD 7560D760100
A8-55003.23.765
A6-6400K[1]23.94.11MBHD 8470D192:12:4800
A6-5400K3.63.8HD 7540D760
A4-53003.43.6HD 7480D128:8:47231600
A4-40003.03.21333

The K suffix denotes an unlocked A-series processor. All FX-series processors are unlocked unless otherwise specified.

Mobile

An AMD A10-4600M APU AMD FS1 CPU Socket-top closed - with AMD A10-4600M (AM4600DEC44HJ) APU PNrdeg0810.jpg
An AMD A10-4600M APU
ModelCPUGPUTDP

(W)

DDR3

Memory

Socket
[Modules/FPUs]

Cores/threads

Freq.(GHz)L2

Cache

(MB)

ModelConfigFreq.(GHz)
BaseTurboBaseTurbo
A10-5750M[2]42.53.52×

2MB

HD 8650G384:24:8533720351866 FS1r2
A10-4600M2.33.2HD 7660G496685
A8-5550M2.13.1HD 8550G256:16:8554720
A8-4500M1.92.8HD 7640G496685
A6-5350M[1]22.93.51HD 8450G192:12:45337201600
A6-4400M2.73.2HD 7520G496685
A4-5150M3.3HD 8350G128:8:4514720
A4-4300M2.53.0HD 7420G480655
A10-5757M[2]42.53.52×

2MB

HD 8650G384:24:8533720351600FP2(BGA)
A10-5745M2.12.9HD 8610G626251333
A10-4655M2.02.8HD 7620G360496
A8-5557M2.13.1HD 8550G515720351600
A8-5545M1.72.7HD 8510G450554191333
A8-4555M1.62.4HD 7600G320424
A6-5357M[1]22.93.51HD 8450G192:12:4533720351600
A6-5345M2.22.8HD 8410G450600171333
A6-4455M2.12.6HD 7500G256:16:8327424
A4-5145M2.0HD 8310G192:12:4424544
A4-4355M1.92.4HD 7400G327424

Server

Some Opteron 32 nm processors.

History

Komodo platform

Leaked roadmaps showed Piledriver CPUs featuring up to ten cores as part of the Komodo platform. Komodo was to launch in 2012 on the FM2 socket, but this never happened. AMD kept the AM3+ socket for the FX series and put the Piledriver-based APUs on FM2. [12]

FX-series, Athlon and Opteron

In 2010 [13] AMD revealed that the 2nd generation was scheduled for 2012; AMD referred to this generation as Enhanced Bulldozer. This later generation of Bulldozer core was codenamed Piledriver.

On June 11, 2013, AMD announced two additional FX-series eight Piledriver core CPUs, the FX-9590 and FX-9370, running at a maximum turbo speed of 5.0 GHz and 4.7 GHz respectively, making AMD the first company to ever release a 5 GHz CPU commercially. [19] AMD specify that the 9xxx series processors require "robust liquid cooling" due to their high Thermal Design Power (TDP) [20]

For the server market, three versions were stated to be under development: [26]

APU lines

In January 2013, AMD officially introduced a new series of APUs codenamed Richland. [32] The series features six new APUs in total. The fastest model, the A10-6800K, featured two Piledriver modules operating at 4.1 GHz and 4.4 GHz in turbo mode and an integrated HD 8670D GPU with 384 stream processors operating at 844 MHz. [33] [34] Only the A10-6800K has official DDR3-2133 memory support. [35] The A10-6800K offered approximately 5% performance improvements in performance applications and 3D games over its A10-5800K Trinity based predecessor, largely due to Richland's higher clock speeds and higher overclocking potential than Trinity. On March 12, 2013, AMD officially introduced four Richland mobile APUs. [36] On June 4, 2013, AMD officially announced six Richland desktop APUs. [37] [38]

Performance

In January 2012, Microsoft released two hotfixes (2646060 and 2645594) for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 that significantly improved the performance of Clustered Multi-Thread based AMD CPUs by improving thread scheduling. [39] [40]

Windows 8 supports CMT-based CPUs out of the box by addressing each core as logical cores and modules as physical cores.

See also

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