AMD GHOST CPU: Are You Afraid Of Ghosts?

AMD GHOST CPU - You Have A Reason To Be Scared, Intel!

" Nothing Can Stand In Its Way. Its Unbelievably Powerful"-CNET
" Even Thinking About It Give Goosebumps"-Anandtech
" Raw and Extraordinary Power- Don't Think These Words Can Describe It Atleast 15%" -Tomshardware

CPU is the core of the computer. For nearly a century there were only two CPU manufacturers : Intel and AMD. Both of them had their opportunity to be shine at the top of the podium. Intel coming out a margin better than AMD processors in most occassions . Few Flashbacks : The old Piledriver loosing to IvyBridge , AMD Taurus loosing to Intel Vcore.

Almost 75% of the time Intel dominated over AMD. Current Intel successor Vcore has been at the top for over one and a half year. Intel V9 Hyper 12.5THz is current champ of CPUs. AMD Taurus 105T  has to settle for second place by a great margin. So it was thought that Intel will continue its success run.

You thought so too..huh!

"AMD Died! Rest In Peace"

This news was all over the internet and was spreading like a wildfire. Many thought the news was true. Some didn't believe though. Intel Fan-boys started celebrating AMD's demise. Websites, blogs, news everyone was after AMD's sudden withdrawal.

All these bragging were brought to an end yesterday when AMD finally unveiled one hell of a CPU. They were on development under extreme secrecy giving no one a single damn clue what was about to hit'em. 

Remember The Day -- 16th February 2031: The day AMD Obliterated Intel. The day which witnessed the birth of "The GHOST " CPU. Yes Folks- Its one scary ghost! A CPU bound by no limits. 

Let have a closer look at the engineering wonder.

AMD's new GHOST is based on 20nm architecture codenamed ghost itself. Its also an APU, with Radeon HD 9990x inbuilt GPU capable of cracking any game in market with solid 40+ fps. It has an RDR5 memory interface for faster data rates. It is clocked around 15THz and thats the entry and average models. The flagship model-GHOST XT is clocked around 20THz with Hyper clock to 30+THz. 

So What's all the FUSS about? 

Its the cores and its management that makes GHOST a special one. It ships with a 16 cores and 20 cores in XT model. What's more amazing??  There are unlimited cores for performance. Or atleast that's what AMD says. We tested AMD's Flagship CPU , The GHOST XT Hyperclocked.

CInebench 23 And SuperPi

Red-SuperPi and Blue-Cinebench 23

While running Cinebench 23 we checked ghost xt's Gmode. It activates the ghost cores in the CPU. Cinebench utilized 66 cores maximum with 45% load at all times, and in Gmode off state utilizes 20 active cores with almost maximum core activity. Vcore and XT normal mode were uncomparable to performance delivered when XT is in Gmode. Almost similar performance with Superpi.

Winrar Compression Time (1TB File-Lesser is Better)

in winrar compression XT under Gmode took under 1.05 seconds to complete 1 TB file compression. While Normal mode it took 26 seconds to complete the compression. Vcores were ages away in comparison. Again we see the Raw power of the Ghost in computing.

Crysis Liberty And GTA 21

 

we took some of the most CPU intensive games like Crysis liberty and GTA 21 and pushed Ghost to the extreme. Mind blowing 200+ fps on both under Gmode and gives stable but awesome 50 fps on normal mode. Even with about 60 cores extra, it delivered 180 fps margin only, under ultra settings. But we have to consider the fact that there wasn't a discreet GPU available for GHOST to reach those levels. But again hats off to immense power. Under Gmode it has a power utilization of about 180W maximum. In normal mode it is extremely cool and utilizes 66W maximum power.

There we have it. GHOST surely is a winner by all means. Its shear power and computing skill helps it to dominate every section testing. Dominate was a mere word. It was carnage. Total destruction of Intel Vcores! Even though AMD says that GHOST XT produces unlimited cores for required performances we were able to get a maximum 121 cores out of the CPU. Keep in mind that we utilized every bit of our 1TB RAM to test its cores and cannot continue because we were all out on RAM. So in future with more RAM to handle 100's of hungry apps at the same time we think it will be possible to break 121 core margin.

Intel was demolished in every aspects of tests. Not even a single game / software helped the Vcore to reach the level of performance of GHOST XT. All the GHOSTs of V,X series were above Intels CPU and only the entry level S series was behind intel. But with Gmode on, its a totally different story.

signing off... WackyFuture tech