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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

Frozen_Texas said:
P.S. On the other side - I've heard we'll have to wait for BD much longer than expected:(
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Highly unlikely. Now that the showcase is confirmed for the HardOCP event in mid July, it's nigh on certain to be in shops by the end of August.

They won't want more than a month (max 6 weeks) between full benchmarks and performance / other info being in public and retail release. The reason it's been so hush-hush is to keep competition in the dark and not to kill sales of Phenom IIs. As soon as that event happens in July, Intel will immediately know where the land lies and Phenom II sales will be reduced to the bargain bin.
 
pmc25 said:
Your analogy doesn't work. Bulldozer is the biggest change to x86 architecture since dual core chips were introduced (and it's a bigger change than that). It's a totally different concept to anything intel have or the preceding AMD chips. A phenom II with higher IPC and 2 more cores it is not.

PCI-E-3 isn't likely to be important until AMD 8xxx or 9xxx, or NVIDIA 7xx or 8xx cards. Though it seems likely that Komodo (early '12 Bulldozer revision) will have it.
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I agree with you. BD is a completely new and different processor design that whats gone before. I'm still sitting here waiting to see some real world data about BD performance before deciding on BD or SD.
 
djkav said:
My understanding is that BD can process simultaneously;
- 4x 128 bit operations,
- 2x 128 bit & 1x 256 bit operations,
- 2x 256 bit operations

Thats based on each integer core having 1 128 bit FPU, as I read in the design spec.
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If each integer core has a 128 bit FPU, how would a module process 2x256 bit operations simultaneously :confused:
 
ng93 said:
If each integer core has a 128 bit FPU, how would a module process 2x256 bit operations simultaneously :confused:
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I never said that 1 module would execute 2x 256 bit operations. I'm assuming that 1 module executes 2x 128 or 1x 256 bit operations.

A 4 core (2 module) bulldozer should be able to process 2x 256 bit operations as both modules have there own FPUs?

Therefore, in even more madness. A 8 core (4 module) BD should perform 8x 128 OR 4x 256 bit operations.
 
djkav said:
I never said that 1 module would execute 2x 256 bit operations. I'm assuming that 1 module executes 2x 128 or 1x 256 bit operations.

A 4 core (2 module) bulldozer should be able to process 2x 256 bit operations as both modules have there own FPUs?

Therefore, in even more madness. A 8 core (4 module) BD should perform 8x 128 OR 4x 256 bit operations.
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Sorry, thought you were arguing against my post.
 
I have been waiting for this CPU ages it seems, stuck with a laptop for now simply becouse i wanna try dozer before going 2500k/2600k intel, or possibly another wait for ivyB. Anyhow, some "leaked info" stated that they are being distributed after 20th june, still no sign of them, so my guess another month or two? anyone got anymore info on that?
 
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