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AMD Bulldozer Finally!
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I was speaking to an AMD rep yesterday he wouldn't say anything about Bulldozer.
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They wouldn't, unless you were in a conference/event and under NDA likely.
So hopefully we will know something between 02:00 and 05:00 tomorrow.
The recent price "leaks" are not encouraging in the slightest, unless AMD really have cut costs so much that they can afford to obliterate Intel in terms of price and still be competitive in terms of performance....which I somehow doubt.
The recent price "leaks" are not encouraging in the slightest, unless AMD really have cut costs so much that they can afford to obliterate Intel in terms of price and still be competitive in terms of performance....which I somehow doubt.
IF top end BD will be on par o/c and day to day performance with 2500K while being even slightly more expensive, they have a winner imho...
IF in this case the BD will be even stronger in multi-tasking, let's say comparable with 2600K than they have even bigger winner...
IF performance is worse than we hope for, but the pricing is as per the leak... then most OEMs will go for BD and AMD should get a much better market share and well this is what they need and want.
ELSE... lol intel takes over the world and we are doomed forever
IF in this case the BD will be even stronger in multi-tasking, let's say comparable with 2600K than they have even bigger winner...
IF performance is worse than we hope for, but the pricing is as per the leak... then most OEMs will go for BD and AMD should get a much better market share and well this is what they need and want.
ELSE... lol intel takes over the world and we are doomed forever
If you look at it from a business perspective, AMD will be picking the price where they'll make the most money. I can't really understand the market share arguments during a period of time where yields are low, and AMD are almost certainly going to sell every single CPU they make, if they're just slightly cheaper for relative performance.
I hope these things are beasts, but I assume the price does reflect the performance.
I hope these things are beasts, but I assume the price does reflect the performance.
Shouldn't really. If the performance isn't great, Intel will sell more than they do now of the i5-2500k etc, so they will keep the price competitive.
if intel rise they prices people won't buy them even they cpu's are faster..
personlly i prefer a good priced cpu even if it's slower than intel's.
but having said that if you've got the money go for the top performaing cpu that you can efford
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Unless Bulldozer CPUs are slower than similarly priced Phenom II processors,then Intel will not raise prices.
With 8 cores I think in all likelihood it will prompt Intel to introduce a cheap(ish) 6 core at say £250.
Even if BD's instructions per cycle is the same as Phenom II I expect the highend model will have enough cores and megahertz to give 6 core Intel's a run for their money.
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Over on a well known UK technology website it has been announced that Bulldozer under LN2 has hit 8.4GHZ!! The article also says that Bulldozer should do well over 5GHZ with water coolers under £100.
Bulldozer is also meant to have a Q4 2011 release too.
Bulldozer is also meant to have a Q4 2011 release too.
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Here is the article in full:
"Enthusiasts the world over want to know how well AMD's upcoming line of FX-series processors will overclock, and the chip giant is today providing more than just a taste by announcing a new world record for the "highest frequency of a computer processor".
The record-breaking feat was carried out on an upcoming eight-core AMD FX desktop processor that managed to reach a staggering 8.429GHz under extreme cooling conditions. That's more than double the processor's rumoured operating speed of 3.6GHz, and AMD's new benchmark has ousted the previous best of 8.308GHz on an Intel Celeron chip.
What can we take away from all this? Well, we're getting mixed feelings. AMD's top-end FX CPU, believed to be the 3.6GHz FX-8150, is appearing at US retailers priced at around $260 (roughly £195 including VAT). Sub-£200 pricing for a top-of-the-line part suggests that AMD's latest architecture won't be going toe-to-toe against Intel's heavyweight Sandy Bridge in the all-out performance stakes, but it should offer a generous amount of power for your pound - and that's arguably the metric that matters most to traditional overclockers.
If early pricing indications hold true, an eight-core processor running at 3.6GHz, turboing up to 4.2GHz and overclocking like hell could prove to be mighty tempting at under £200 pounds.
But the jury's still out on baseline performance, and we've yet to see how AMD's newfangled multi-core architecture will play out in the real world.
One things for certain, AMD has the overclocking/enthusiast audience firmly in its sights. This particular world-record-breaking attempt may have taken a couple of days of testing and lots of liquid nitrogen, but AMD openly states that speeds of "well above 5GHz" should be achievable on certain FX CPUs "using only air or sub-$100 water cooling solutions".
Good news for enthusiasts, but here's the bad: AMD has also confirmed that the FX range won't be available to purchase until the fourth quarter of 2011. That's right in line with those mid-October rumours we've been hearing."
"Enthusiasts the world over want to know how well AMD's upcoming line of FX-series processors will overclock, and the chip giant is today providing more than just a taste by announcing a new world record for the "highest frequency of a computer processor".
The record-breaking feat was carried out on an upcoming eight-core AMD FX desktop processor that managed to reach a staggering 8.429GHz under extreme cooling conditions. That's more than double the processor's rumoured operating speed of 3.6GHz, and AMD's new benchmark has ousted the previous best of 8.308GHz on an Intel Celeron chip.
What can we take away from all this? Well, we're getting mixed feelings. AMD's top-end FX CPU, believed to be the 3.6GHz FX-8150, is appearing at US retailers priced at around $260 (roughly £195 including VAT). Sub-£200 pricing for a top-of-the-line part suggests that AMD's latest architecture won't be going toe-to-toe against Intel's heavyweight Sandy Bridge in the all-out performance stakes, but it should offer a generous amount of power for your pound - and that's arguably the metric that matters most to traditional overclockers.
If early pricing indications hold true, an eight-core processor running at 3.6GHz, turboing up to 4.2GHz and overclocking like hell could prove to be mighty tempting at under £200 pounds.
But the jury's still out on baseline performance, and we've yet to see how AMD's newfangled multi-core architecture will play out in the real world.
One things for certain, AMD has the overclocking/enthusiast audience firmly in its sights. This particular world-record-breaking attempt may have taken a couple of days of testing and lots of liquid nitrogen, but AMD openly states that speeds of "well above 5GHz" should be achievable on certain FX CPUs "using only air or sub-$100 water cooling solutions".
Good news for enthusiasts, but here's the bad: AMD has also confirmed that the FX range won't be available to purchase until the fourth quarter of 2011. That's right in line with those mid-October rumours we've been hearing."
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Not surprising, you might recall I said a month or two ago that I said BD could be the benchers CPU of choice, as SB has an artificial limit on its OC.
I expect BD to come out next month, and would be very surprised if it doesn't.