AMD Bulldozer Finally!

mikeo · 20 Mar 2011 at 16:07

djkav said:
I'm on a q6600 and Asus p5k black pearl. Got them sometime in 2007.

I'm waiting to see the performance figures from bulldozer before committing to BD or SB.

Same here.

I'm in no rush, so I await with interest to see how the land lies.

MichaelM · 20 Mar 2011 at 16:24

I wasn't planning to upgrade my CPU any time soon but if I can stick a BD chip in without changing anything else and there is a practical performance increase then I might as well...
Hopefully some useful reviews will be around on release.

fs123 · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:26

hmm...appears to be an early bulldozer benchmark albeit a server chip..

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_bulldozer_linux&num=1

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:45

It seems a few more benchmarks are appearing:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=268425

However,the differences between the Intel and AMD systems means it may not be a good indication of performance ATM.

silversurfer · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:45

Did the release get put back, Im counting more then 25 days. Rough pricing ?

it's mentioned in the article that its a 32 core system

wow. So wheres kiefer

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:55

The Cray test system is running a pair of 8 module BD CPUs running at 1.8GHZ and deimos has 4 Xeon X7550 8 cores CPUs running at 1.99GHZ which can run 16 threads each. However both systems are running under different operating systems. The Cray is running Arch and deimos is running Ubuntu.

opethdisciple · 23 Mar 2011 at 12:59

Not much to chew on, but a little taster perhaps?

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/3/23/first-amd-interlagos-opteron-benchmarks-leaked/

rypt · 23 Mar 2011 at 15:09

I wish AMD would just announce some dates, specs, etc!

.Max. · 23 Mar 2011 at 21:29

Faster than an i7 2600k? Probably

Although I hope not for the sake of my system

qbazdz · 23 Mar 2011 at 23:21

I hope so, for the sake of global CPU prices!

mikeyholt · 25 Mar 2011 at 10:00

I hope so, for the sake of my wallet.

WingZero30 · 25 Mar 2011 at 10:03

So when is bulldozer actually being released? :confused:

tbh · 25 Mar 2011 at 11:05

Would be nice to see some AM3+ motherboards start appearing.

WingZero30 said:
So when is bulldozer actually being released?

End of June.

kain666 · 25 Mar 2011 at 11:51

will this make the price drop of the old i7s

Vanquished007 · 26 Mar 2011 at 18:31

kain666 said:
will this make the price drop of the old i7s

Likely yes, but we need to wait for a BD release first.

hux · 26 Mar 2011 at 18:54

So amd are taking the same approach to challenge intel as they did nvidia.

This could be very interesting, multi core is the way forward and intel have been slow on this front.

silversurfer · 26 Mar 2011 at 19:29

Intel released details of a 32 core chip a few years ago, scheduled release date was 2010

Either they deliberately slowed progress to maximise profits or took a different route to higher clock speeds instead maybe or failed to produce a reliable final product

Thallium · 26 Mar 2011 at 21:52

Can't wait to see these and some real benchmarks

hux · 26 Mar 2011 at 23:45

Probably because of profits knowing intel.

Gtiracer · 27 Mar 2011 at 08:08

AMD are really good at talk thats what conclusion Ive drawn to after hearing so much hype about bulldozer.

How long have we been hearing about this fantastic new processor and leaks and reviews etc, when it seems so effortless for intel yet Bulldozer it seems will not compete properly with the equivalent intel processor. With them delaying the release of their product so much they are also chasing faster processors that intel brings out with their new generations each time.

Maybe if they put as much effort into CPU development as they did with GPU's there wouldn't be a problem

slight dig)