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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

please someone just post real benchmarkssssssss :D

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

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:
 
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.
 
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'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

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6990 at 4x :o

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.
 
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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?
 
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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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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.

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.
 
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