Smarter Thread Scheduling Improves AMD Bulldozer Performance

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, 2011 @05:12AM from the almost-up-to-par dept.

crookedvulture writes "The initial reviews of the first Bulldozer-based FX processors have revealed the chips to be notably slower than their Intel counterparts. Part of the reason is the module-based nature of AMD's new architecture, which requires more intelligent thread scheduling to extract optimum performance. This article takes a closer look at how tweaking Windows 7's thread scheduling can improve Bulldozer's performance by 10-20%. As with Intel's Hyper-Threading tech, Bulldozer performs better when resource sharing is kept to a minimum and workloads are spread across multiple modules rather than the multiple cores within them."

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So basically... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-28 05:17 · Score: 1, Insightful

So basically they suck. I shouldn't need to tweak my os thread scheduler just so a cpu can suck less. AMD needs to fix their shit instead of lame excuses.
1. Re:So basically... by turgid · 2011-10-28 06:49 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Unfortunately, the Wintel world has thrived on this philosophy for 20 years.
  
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