AMD Bulldozer Finally!

d_brennen · 29 Jun 2011 at 21:05

Vantage a well respected benchmark now is it?

fish · 29 Jun 2011 at 21:07

So do I and you can see from that one reason why AMD left BAPCO

Bleek · 29 Jun 2011 at 22:14

Bleek said:
I actually think that video is quite impressive.

I should say I meant the fact it handled Crysis 2 very well i.e. a real world example... I care little for the benchmark software.

ScratchFive · 29 Jun 2011 at 22:49

I would want more than 40 fps from crysis 2, but I can honestly see a time in the not too distant future when it will no longer be necessary have a dedicated graphics card... and I cant wait!

clocka · 30 Jun 2011 at 09:20

can a moderator change the title to: "AMD Bulldozer Finally! 30 - 60 Day Countdown!"

davieg · 30 Jun 2011 at 10:58

AMD Bulldozer FX Engineering Sample @ 4 GHz / Intel Core i7-990 Extreme @ 4 GHz
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 / Gigabyte X58A-OC
various models, but mainly 2GB sticks Kingston DDR3-2000 MHz
SLI Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 (16+16 PCI-E lines)
OCZ Revodrive SSD
Enermax 1250W
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Beta drivers 275.36 for Nvidia graphics cards

http://wccftech.com/amd-bulldozer-4ghz-es-pitted-intel-core-i7990x-gaming-benchmarks/27686/

Another rumored bench. Looks optimistic at the very least to be honest if anywhere near truthful.
But does seem to originate from OBR whos reliability has been called into question a few times at the very least. So pinch salt etc.

Admiral Huddy · 30 Jun 2011 at 11:12

clocka said:
can a moderator change the title to: "AMD Bulldozer Finally! 30 - 60 Day Countdown!"

Done

Gashman · 30 Jun 2011 at 13:42

tell you what, that APU looks like its running Crysis II really smoothly, that is pretty impressive to be honest for what is a 'mainstream' part for AMD. still wish we could get some more performance indicators on Bulldozer mind, the wait is proving annoying now!

Bleek · 30 Jun 2011 at 13:48

Won't be long now.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 30 Jun 2011 at 13:57

AMD is going to sell a Black Edition Llano:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-a8-3850-llano,review-32222-7.html

Bleek · 30 Jun 2011 at 13:58

Sweet we'll be seeing 4GHz + Llanos then.

tommybhoy · 1 Jul 2011 at 00:21

Greg0986 said:
I know this isn't Bulldozer but I thought I would just leave this here

How anybody is not impressed with that, I just don't know.
OEM's are going to snap these up and Nvidias low end cards are going to take an absolute pounding in the long run.

Emlyn_Dewar · 1 Jul 2011 at 00:38

Not wanting to keep the OT chat going but... I agree, this can only be a good thing for the lower end PC in the long run. The graphics that we're getting from these chips is far far better than the usual low end rubbish that we see.
Can hopefully bring a bit more people into PC gaming when they find that their machines can run the latest games.

Thinking about the sort of average PC user I see who isn't into PC gaming, their machines usually run on monitors with resolutions no bigger than 1440x900. These chips will happily run at acceptable details with those resolutions.

Looking forward to see how it develops in the future and what Intel/Nvidia can get out to counter.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 1 Jul 2011 at 09:43

Like with Ivy Bridge, it seems Sandy Bridge E is delayed to 2012:

http://www.techpowerup.com/148282/Sandy-Bridge-E-Delayed-to-January-2012-Sources.html

Locky · 1 Jul 2011 at 13:01

For an IGP, I am impressed tbh. this is will low end sales of standalone gfx cards.

hux · 1 Jul 2011 at 17:40

Hopefully in the future we won't need a gfx card, just upgrade the igp as you play along.

Could be quite interesting, and save a bit on upgrades.

redfist · 2 Jul 2011 at 15:38

hux said:
Hopefully in the future we won't need a gfx card, just upgrade the igp as you play along.

I think there will always be a case for having these seperate for gaming systems. although it would make it a bit cheaper to upgrade (as long as the CPU's don't cost £3-400!!)

Greg0986 · 3 Jul 2011 at 00:13

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1903&subid=1782

Definitive OcUK confirmation

arknor · 3 Jul 2011 at 00:31

redfist said:
I think there will always be a case for having these seperate for gaming systems. although it would make it a bit cheaper to upgrade (as long as the CPU's don't cost £3-400!!)

theres a reason why real gpus are so big aswell and its not for the sake of it a dedicated gpu on a big chunk of pcb is always going to be much faster than something stuck on a tiny cpu

Gibbo · 3 Jul 2011 at 10:53

HI there

In case you guys had not noticed were now taking pre-orders on the Llano's and in our own early testing we've had the 3850 upto 4.7GHz so far, so yes they are indeed very overclockable which for the money makes them a great CPU.