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AMD Bulldozer Information and Benchmarks Leaked
MojoKid writes "With Bobcat and Llano launched, AMD has one more major product overhaul set for this year. The company's Bulldozer CPU will launch in the next few months, and after years of waiting, enthusiasts and IT industry analysts are both curious to see what AMD has in its high performance pipeline. According to recently leaked info, one of the new AMD octal-core processors will be an AMD FX-8130P running at 3.2GHz base speed, with what's reported as a 3.7GHz Turbo speed, and a 4.2GHz clock speed if only half the CPU's cores are in use." Writer Joel Hruska justly points out that measures based on unofficial data and unreleased chips are subject to all kinds of potential errors, not to mention Photoshop.
has what to do with clock speed?
will it blend?
Photoshop & Illustrator seem to be particularly unstable with AMD Phenom X4 Quad-Core Processor 3.4Ghz.
I don't really understand the hype behind Bulldozer. Do people really believe that it'll be on-par with Sandy Bridge? The $200 2500k competes well with their own $700+ CPU's. That is absolutely ridiculous performance that I wouldn't have dreamed of 5-10 years ago, for that price.
Sure, maybe having more cores will mean better multi-threaded performance, but this still isn't taken advantage of. I don't see Intel losing in the single-threaded department anytime soon.
Are you showing that it's a fraud, like the article cited or just to get clicks like your own Headline shows? A bit of both, eh?
How did a story about an article about faked leaked info make it to the front page?
I think stories, i.e. submitters should have karma. I want to downvote this tripe so bad...
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For some things that run well in parallel their current 4 way 12 core processors released some time ago are better than the newly released Sandy Bridge - so OF COURSE it COULD be better. Whether the consumer CPU is as good or not as good is something that will be worth seeing. If it's nowhere near as good but a lot cheaper that will also be worth seeing.
But don't most modern CPUs use hexadecimal?
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Bulldozer is not exactly a synonym for high speed, low energy consumption and compact size.
In 1996, Digital Equipment Corporation had a Alpha processor fabricated in a bad process uncorrected until 1999 that otherwise had the potential to play Doom3 in SOFTWARE RENDERING. Despite the corrected process reaching the same processor, this is the first company ever to reach 1GHz and was done in 1999, but it could've been done in 1996. The $10k workstation, made in America, and still had more potential than AMD and Intel but they were sold-out by Compaq and Hewlet-Packard.
that sucks my 6 yr old box is 3ghz not much better for the price i bet you can get 4 3ghz vs 3 of these
Looks more like a photograph from a satelite by Google Earth, rather than a Photoshopped image. See for yourself, http://hothardware.com/newsimages/Item18029/Orochi.jpg
This is why company's work hard to control how and when information is shared with the public.
Sometimes you just can't help yourself.
From What's a Metaphor For?:
As the mini needs better then the i3 / i5 on board video and for apple to go from nvidia on board video to intel is a side grade at best.
Nobody cares if Farmville or Facebook will only utilize one core. When folks have the money, they are going to buy the fastest CPU available. Only the budget conscious person is going to ask themselves if they will utilize all those cores or even need that many megahertz (and possibly higher TDP). When they are at their local BestBuy, the sales person is going to pitch them the latest Quad-Core or Octal-Core machine "because your college-bound daughter need it for running Microsoft Word". Going forward, there will be no choice from AMD/Intel but to have a multi-core machine at 3+GHz. Even though a low-end Via will be fine for most folks at a fraction of the cost, it won't be commercially available at the local electronics stores. Related Analogy: Americans still buy fast cars even though the speed limit is 70mph in most places. Just about every modern car nowadays is capable of going at least 100mph even though most urban folks average 30-35mph in their daily commute
No, the Alpha had a few minor defects only due to the fabrication process. They benchmarked this CPU design and got awesome results even when it was at 1/3 of it's potential in 1996. When Intel had a 60MHz 32-bit Pentium (the one with a 50MHz 64bit bus and can't do FPU math) and they just migrated away from 486, DEC had a 400MHz 64-bit Alpha (with a 60MHz 128-bit bus) that was re-implemented to another motherboard chipset at 633MHz (with 256-bit 85MHz bus) in the next fab. When the defects were recognized in 1999 then that SAME CPU DESIGN was changed from 21164 to 21264 and the pricetag was kept the same and hit 1GHz in the lab. Meaning: yea, they had a 64-bit 1GHz processor as early as 1995/1996, while Intel barely released their junky 150MHz Pentium non-MMX processor.
Also, DEC was using SDRAM, at full potential of the Memory Controller, even was doubling the banks to increase transport, while Intel was only moving what seemed like a quarter of the potential even at the time when using EDO DRAM. In other words, Intel particularly has been holding back modern computing development to the Moor's Law when DEC gave the Universe to Moor's Law. Intel has charged heavy prices for every hair-line of "innovation" on products that die within two to 5 years, meanwhile my DEC 164LX 533MHz Motherboard is still kicking since 1994 and has accelerated openGL from a Radeon 9100 graphics accelerator made around 1999.
What. the. f*ck. has Intel been doing all this time, other than fumbling everyone with their hundreds of different revisions to their shitty multi-core chips? I can tell you straight-out: they're fleacing the buyer.