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AMD Bulldozer Finally!
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Doesn't that apply to everything hardware related?
Just wanted to comment on the Dawn of War debate, it's not like you'll need anything more than 35-40FPS EVER in an _RTS_ game, It's not an FPS lol. As long as your sreen rolls over fluently you're not loosing anything.
And first random vid here:
Thats 2.2ghz c2d and radeon 4850 playing it maxed out, 1440x900 still but common, we're talking here about first gen c2d at 2.2ghz playing it perfectly smooth
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And first random vid here:
Thats 2.2ghz c2d and radeon 4850 playing it maxed out, 1440x900 still but common, we're talking here about first gen c2d at 2.2ghz playing it perfectly smooth
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Core 2 Duo is about the same clock for clock against PII, however it has SSSE3 support, unlike PII.
What is SSSE3? And how does it benefit anything?
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I was under the impression that it was closer to Wolfdale rather than Conroe.
Its Nehalem and Sandy bridge which widened the gap...
Not really, also, whole k10 family has SSE3, SSE4 as well, not that it matters much either but yeh.
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SSE3, not SSSE3.
Of course it matters.
And they have SSE4A, not the same >.<.
It is indeed closer to Wolfdale, but Wolf dale is still Core 2 Duo.
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Are those fragmented standards useful though? I was under the impression that whenever the standards were fragmented adoption generally suffered as a result.
As for the wolfdale comment yes, silly me forgot about that.
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Hmmm, interesting, September 19th is a Monday as well... Oh well best to forget and keep on waiting whilst saving a bit of ca$h.
Well I gave up waiting for BD, Got a i5 2500K instead. It will be interesting if a 4core BD performs better than a 2500k, i hope not
It most probably won't. 4 core BD is priced to compete with the Dual Core i3. It's the 6 core BDs that'll be going up against the i5's, whilst the 8 cores go up against i7.
Will we need 6-core CPU anytime soon on games ?
Well it's Battlefield i'm most interested about, as it's supposed to be truelly multi threaded/support for more cores, which would give the edge to the higher cored Bulldozer variants possible, which would be a cap in AMD's feather, if it proves to have a noticable benefit at least
Well, next generation of Xbox is out 2012/2013, that's looking very likely to be powered by an AMD APU based on a 6 or 8 core Bulldozer. With most games going multiplatform This should raise the ceiling somewhat on how much CPU power game developers take advantage of.
Oh dear, so it needs TWICE the cores to compete with the Intels?
Sigh... incoming fail detected.
Its a shame really.. If only the enterprise Opterons were a little cheaper.
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Incoming lack of understanding of the architecture incoming.
Why would that matter too much?
If it needs TWICE the cores, then surely by definition each core is half as fast as the intels.
Whats so wonderful about that? Unless the clock speeds are ramped through the roof, but I understood that that was halted years ago, and a more mature approach was taken with the Nehalem architecture heralding a new era?
I believe the 4-core BD actually has TWO physical cores, it just appears as four to the OS and is marketed as such. It's really a sort-of hyperthreading, but nothing like it. Hard to explain, you're better off having a read up yourself.