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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It looks like the quad core Bulldozer CPUs will have the fastest cores as they have the most L3 cache per core. 12MB is a lot of cache.
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Will make naff all difference really in real world use, also the specs suggest that the L3 is independent of cores as its all 8mb, also if only 2 of 8 CPU's are stressed for example more of the total L3 memory would be allocated to them, we just dont know so thats quite a leap of faith to make, and I for one think that its not as simplistic as you make out.
 
Combat squirrel said:
Will make naff all difference really in real world use, also the specs suggest that the L3 is independent of cores as its all 8mb, also if only 2 of 8 CPU's are stressed for example more of the total L3 memory would be allocated to them, we just dont know so thats quite a leap of faith to make, and I for one think that its not as simplistic as you make out.
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It made a marked improvement on the Phenom II in nearly all benchmarks.
 
Martini1991 said:
Anytime in August.
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well (its 40 page thread) is there any confirmation about a bulldozer in the price range of a 2500k ? because all ive read is that the new bulldozer is compared to the i7 2600k wich is a lot more expensive... i hope so, i like AMD (they dont change MoBo every year...) but if not i would go intel
 
Martini1991 said:
The 8 core should be around the 2600k price.

However, Intel can, and will counteract with a price drop.
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What AMD should do to get the enthusiast market is hopefully make ALL the chips overclockable with unlocked multi's, though I'm not sure how they've done clocks and if mobo's will be able to lock out sata other stuff fine. Bulldozer is closer platform wise so the overclocking issues on Llano probably won't be the same.

In which case I'd be looking to get the cheapest 8 core chip and overclock it rather than the top end chip. Thats where enthusiast market wise AMD have always trumped Intel, want all the features, pay for the top chip these days though HT isn't that big a deal.

Really AMD want to have at least one 8 core priced alongside/below a 2500K, that will be a killer of a chip price/performance I would bet.
 
Damn... no i dont know what to do lol... anyway im out of my house till August 3rd so i will wait and see what comes from this bulldozer things...
 
Faruko said:
well (its 40 page thread) is there any confirmation about a bulldozer in the price range of a 2500k ? because all ive read is that the new bulldozer is compared to the i7 2600k wich is a lot more expensive... i hope so, i like AMD (they dont change MoBo every year...) but if not i would go intel
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The top-end 6-core version will probably be priced near the i5-2500K. Nothing concrete though.
 
So engineering samples which we apparently have some sketchy benchmark information on are from a processor called FX-8130P but there has been mention of a FX-8150P which should be the faster?
 
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