AMD Bulldozer Finally!

mmj_uk · 11 Oct 2011 at 15:54

grandmaster said:
that is a seriously crap banner.
i bet someone from amd are asking them to take it down as we post.

two dozers, in a field, with the letters FX pasted on the front? yuk

It's a picture of the landfill where all of the FX's will end up when AMD can't sell them.

grandmaster · 11 Oct 2011 at 15:55

mmj_uk said:
It's a picture of the landfill where all of the FX's will end up when AMD can't sell them.

lmao!!

nicely done haha

i should have said theyre diggin the landfill for all intel tech! but then thatd be too late grrr

stulid · 11 Oct 2011 at 15:56

mmj_uk said:
It's a picture of the landfill where all of the FX's will end up when AMD can't sell them.

Atari E.T?

stulid · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:08

Its all quiet on the western front.

mmj_uk · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:20

stulid said:
Atari E.T?

I wonder if anyone ever dug all those up, could make a killing on Ebay.

Final8y · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:25

Martini1991 · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:27

6990 at 4x

~>Dg<~ · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:31

please someone just post real benchmarkssssssss

then i can go and work out what to buy for bf33333333333333333333333

grandmaster · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:37

~>Dg<~ said:
please someone just post real benchmarkssssssss

then i can go and work out what to buy for bf33333333333333333333333

i was about to post an image of a park bench with marks on it so you could make your decision as i dont want you to be in a state of uncertainty because its never a nice place to be.

however i forgot how to add image in post so didnt bother looking it up :eek:

Martini1991 · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:37

If Bulldozer doesn't launch tomorrow, it's because all the rumours of crappy performance are true and they've delayed it, which doesn't make a great amount of sense.

tommybhoy · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:40

@DG

'Overclocking your Core i7 processor is not going to help deliver more performance in Battlefield 3 according to our test using a single GeForce GTX 580 card. We observed that a 49% increase in clock speed for the Core i7 allowed for a mere 6% increase in frame rates.'

http://www.techspot.com/review/448-battlefield-3-beta-performance/page7.html

Final8y · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:45

Martini1991 said:
6990 at 4x

The 6990 is not the important point, everything else he said is, people are GPU bottlenecked most of the time, so there would be little difference for most people pending on the game and of course 3.0 in the future.

And yes the 6990 was tested in the x4 slot as well as the others, so at least we know and is not as bad as i thought it would be.

d_brennen · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:45

So a PII X6 is mixing it up with i5/i7 SB systems in BF3? Is this down to Frostbite 2 utilising more than a couple of threads?

Edit: I guess there is no benchmark tool for BF3 other than Frapsing some unpredictable and unrepeatable battlefield antics?

mmj_uk · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:47

It's because it's bottlenecked by the GPU, that's why games are generally not a good tool to measure CPU performance.

If they benchmarked at 640*480 with low detail the faster CPU's would deliver higher frame-rates.

Martini1991 · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:51

Tomorrow's going to be a disappointment, I will quote this tomorrow.

grandmaster · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:52

So what those benchmarks are saying, is that, with BF3, Intel SB are rubbish as opposed to old AMD CPU's.

Lets face it, people are wanting a new CPU mostly for gaming, mostly for BF3.

AMD - 1
Intel - 0

Martini1991 · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:53

That BF3 beta thing could all come under margin of error, it's GPU bottlenecked.

grandmaster · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:54

Martini1991 said:
Tomorrow's going to be a disappointment, I will quote this tomorrow.

On what grounds?
You wont be able to perform in bed???
(Joke)

Seriously though, what will be disappointing. Just make a list so we can quote unquote aswell

Otherwise you can revel in your glory as everyone were wrong and your list of disappointments (in bullet form) youre about to post, comes true!

EDIT - How do you know its GPU bottlenecked? Are we saying the people who did them do not know about bottlenecking or never took that under consideration? Are you sure its bottlenecked? Have you checked their specs and ran the test yourself to see that the GPU is in fact, bottlenecking?

Even if it is bottlenecked, that means everyone who runs a system like that will be bottlenecking anyway, therefore making that argument redundant.

Andy__C · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:55

Martini1991 said:
If Bulldozer doesn't launch tomorrow, it's because all the rumours of crappy performance are true and they've delayed it, which doesn't make a great amount of sense.

I can't see how delaying it will somehow turn the chip that has already shipped to retailers into a better product. Fine wine this ain't.

I would imagine delays are all down to stock/production problems.

Martini1991 · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:56

grandmaster said:
On what grounds?
You wont be able to perform in bed???
(Joke)

Seriously though, what will be disappointing. Just make a list so we can quote unquote aswell

Otherwise you can revel in your glory as everyone were wrong and your list which your list of disappointments in bullet form youre about to post, comes true!

Not saying on what grounds.

Andy__C said:
I can't see how delaying it will somehow turn the chip that has already shipped to retailers into a better product. Fine wine this ain't.

I would imagine delays are all down to stock/production problems.

Nail on head.