AMD Bulldozer

[Rattlehead]

I'm interested to see how Bulldozer performs. I was trying to wait for BD to come out, but the wait became unbearable.

[Phazon]

The frequency of a CPU means little. Its all about the chipset design and how efficient it is. We'll see if AMD can match Intel over the coming months.

[Ze-Jamz]

Originally Posted by Phazon

The frequency of a CPU means little. Its all about the chipset design and how efficient it is. We'll see if AMD can match Intel over the coming months.

Hmm in not sure that will happen, or it might for a while but then Intel will release something to make them ahead again..

I think Intel have the edge slightly but AMD are very good value for money and have always been considerably cheaper

[Buchon]

Bulldozer 8429 MHz - World Record :

http://www.guru3d.com/news/amd-fx-pr...-world-record/

Bulldozer have a Turbo mode, that maintain quiet cores unused and overclock used cores, it can do 4.2 GHz by itself.

The FX-8150 have quiet frequency of 3.6 GHz and a turbo frequency of 4.2 GHz, by default and on air.

And that is with 8 physical cores so any comparative with i7 have no sense.

Is true that the speed is not all and what is important is that core structure, but that Buldozer can overclock well dont mean that the core structure is slow.

We should wait and see but it looks good certainly.

[TonyD]

I’m half-way there with my new mainboard, but probably won’t get Zambesi when it’s released – rather wait for the next stepping which will be further optimised. In the meantime, I’m quite happy running my C3 Deneb at 3.8GHz and cheap-ass DDR-III 1333 memory at 1500MHz using 225MHz bclk with no voltage mods and air cooling (although a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 rather than the stock unit)

[Stealthy]

I'm pretty sure performance is based off how well the program is written for multi-core use. I know Intel has released a library just for this, http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/ (works on AMD aswell)