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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

manveruppd said:
Groan... so if I went with Intel I'd be buying into a socket with no upgrade path, and if I went with AMD I'd be waiting for their new CPUs for weeks if not months more! This is pretty frustrating.

Incidentally, did anyone notice Futurama from a couple of weeks back, where they open up Bender and he has an "AMD Athlon II" sticker on the inside panel? I thought it was a strange piece of product placement given that they call him "13 years out of date"!:p
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Was going to post the same. I guess in 3011 they are still waiting for Bulldozer! :p
 
Another pricing article on BDs.


http://www.extremetech.com/computing/95633-amd-bulldozer-fx-pricing-revealed-a-lot-cheaper-than-sandy-bridge?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fextremetech+%28Extremetech%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher


AMD’s FX Series will be very, very cheap: the six-core FX-6100 (i.e. three Bulldozer modules) clocked at 3.3GHz, with a Turbo Core boost to 3.9GHz, will retail for just $155. The eight-core (four-module) FX-8120, clocked at 3.1GHz and boosted to 4GHz, will retail for $185 — and the 3.6GHz/4.2GHz FX-8150 will retail for $230. Each Bulldozer module has 2MB of L2 cache, so the FX-6100 has 6MB of L2 — and its eight-core brethren have 8MB. All three chips have 8MB of L3 cache.

Why is any of the above bad news? Well, the pricing is possibly too cheap. Early benchmarks of Bulldozer showed that Zambezi was never likely to be competitive with Intel’s Core i7 — and these prices, which are all well below any of Intel’s comparable i7 (and even some i5) Sandy Bridge chips, suggest that the FX Series chips are priced to sell rather than compete. The nearest-spec chip to the FX-8150, for example, is the Core i7-2600, which has an Intel-suggested retail price of $294 — some $60 more than the AMD chip. If you compare the FX against the “overclockable” 2600k, the price difference is even more pronounced.
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Did you notice this?.....
Well, there’s good news and bad news: we now have a release date — fourth quarter, so any time between October and December — and we also have the pricing.
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I say hope for BD sometime in 2012 lol....
 
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I own a [email protected] and was observing my mates machine which is a Phenom 2 Hex 2.8Ghz.... he's system seemed smother than mine, especially in Shogun 2 :o (I have a 5870, he a 460)

Anyway, why I mention this is becuase even if AMD do launch bulldozer late maybe being an 8 core cpu will give it enough of an edge to cope with coming late to the party?
 
Bulldozer missing its launch date, unfortunatly I think has caused AMD to miss a great oppurtunity to be taken seriously as the premium rather than budget cpu of choice.

We are going to be in a situtation which we had last gen which was the Phenom 2 vs the Core i series. Core i premuim choice/premuim price and the AMD more budget conscious bang for buck.

This is the same scenario we are going to be in again with Bulldozer.

Im still interested in an affordable 8 core cpu however.... think about it, which game is going to be bottlenecked by a late 2011 8 core cpu?

None in the next 4 years, so budget cpu for the win?
 
opethdisciple said:
Im still interested in an affordable 8 core cpu however.... think about it, which game is going to be bottlenecked by a late 2011 8 core cpu?

None in the next 4 years, so budget cpu for the win?
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The more cores the better for me, even if they are slower. I don't game any more, so that isn't a consideration in my case. Sure sandybridge are great, but just 4 cores...
 
Is this the same event martin posted about in SanFransisco? Think it mentioned an announcment at 7pm,we'd have to wait 7 hrs, so it will be 2am before we here get to hear it.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
There might be an announcement today:

http://twitter.com/#!/AMD_Unprocessed/status/113380895834128385
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Yes, I said that about a week ago, they're making an announcement. :p
eddyr said:
Is this the same event martin posted about in SanFransisco? Think it mentioned an announcment at 7pm,we'd have to wait 7 hrs, so it will be 2am before we here get to hear it.
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Probably.
BD's "Pre-Launch event" thing was last week. That's not to say this won't be announcing the release date to the general public.
 
opethdisciple said:
Im still interested in an affordable 8 core cpu however.... think about it, which game is going to be bottlenecked by a late 2011 8 core cpu?
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Those which aren't properly parallel.

Ie, most of them. It's pretty darned hard to make an FPS, for example, highly parallel. You simply need to know the state of one object to accurately determine the state of another object.
 
i wonder if the memory controller going to have a lower max voltage safety?i.e no higher than 1.65v maybe.

which would be no good for me as my ram needs 1.74v
 
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