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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

The cinebench is an anomaly I think (As I said before, I think it's a case of the architecture falling flat on its face, simply to how bogged down Cinebench is making it), as you noticed slightly faster encoding?
 
Thuban was actually a pretty decent idea, the MOAR COARS played well for AMD considering the 980x's cost even if performance was in another league.

BD is just embarrassing being unable to out sprint the 1100T in a number of cases. Last time I remember that was the initial launch of the P4 where the P3 had the upper hand on the slower clocked cpu's.
 
Completely gutted this release to be honest.

I do not understand what happened, did they just fail at some point in development massively and decided 'release it anyway' as the optimal way to cut losses, trying to ride it out on the 8-cores slogan for the masses ?

Perhaps some unexpected problem they could not overcome (to acheive the desired performance) delays and all. 'Hush-hush' everything of course.

Sad times.
 
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Martini1991 said:
The cinebench is an anomaly I think (As I said before, I think it's a case of the architecture falling flat on its face, simply to how bogged down Cinebench is making it), as you noticed slightly faster encoding?
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not clock for clock
http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss33/CAT-THE-FIFTH/HandBrakeChart17-10-2011.png

these tests below i did for CAT-THE-FIFTH
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Thanks!

The Tron trailer encode speed is 37.41FPS which puts in between a Phenom II X6 1100T(33.74FPS) and a Xeon E3-1270(39.4FPS). The Xeon E3-1270 is essentially the same CPU as a Core i7 2600K but with the IGP switched off. However,looking at table a Phenom II X6 at similar speeds would be around the same.
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Thanks again!!

23.976FPS with the Splice Trailer. This puts it slightly above a Phenom II X6 1090T. Again it looks like a 3.6GHZ Phenom II X6 would produce a similar result.
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The Big Buck Bunny encode is 37.11FPS which puts it half way between a Phenom II X6 1100T and a Xeon E3-1270. So again it looks like a 3.6GHZ Phenom II X6 should be around the same speed.

Thanks again.
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Just read this weeks micro mart. 20-26 oct 2011.

Mark Pickavance built himself a high performance system costing £1,656.00. I think the outcome might be worth a read next week.

His question is will amd bulldozer push the current crop of Intel sandy bridge processors over the performance cliff, or will it simply level the playing field?

Results next month. Have a feeling he might be gutted with that outlay..
 
It is interesting watching how CPUs pan out. I've got some choice to go from my E5300.

But I really don't think 1st Gen BD will be any of my choices. :p

I wonder if Piledriver will be any good, they need to make sure that all cores can share 8MB of L3 cache instead of 2MB each. That was a stupid design decision.
 
Piledriver won't be a miracle.
What ground they made up on Phenom II from Phenom, they threw away, and I can't say Intel were ever this behind were they back in the day? I wouldn't know as I wasn't into PC's then.
 
No it won't be a miracle but it's just reminds of the GTX480s, very hot, big TDP and performance didn't reflect those, imo. But the 580s were refined and brought those down which I think will happen with Piledriver.

Nonetheless, they've still got many die shrinks to go, so it could end up fantastic. *pours salt everywhere*
 
LeJosh said:
No it won't be a miracle but it's just reminds of the GTX480s, very hot, big TDP and performance didn't reflect those, imo. But the 580s were refined and brought those down which I think will happen with Piledriver.

Nonetheless, they've still got many die shrinks to go, so it could end up fantastic. *pours salt everywhere*
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How does it remind you of the GTX480? The 480 was the best single GPU out at the time.
 
It may have been the fastest by around 10% but the temps were insane and the TDP was also. If you don't care about those then yeah it was the "best."
 
It's more like the first P4... higher clockspeed but slower, higher TDP, hotter, basically a backwards step in most departments.

Can see now why AMD released 990FX so soon, lots of people bought them thinking Bulloldozer would be decent.
 
LeJosh said:
No it won't be a miracle but it's just reminds of the GTX480s, very hot, big TDP and performance didn't reflect those, imo. But the 580s were refined and brought those down which I think will happen with Piledriver.

Nonetheless, they've still got many die shrinks to go, so it could end up fantastic. *pours salt everywhere*
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What? The 480's walked over the 5870's and perform far better in sli and with less problems than 5870 crossfire. Yes they are a bit noisy and hot while they are doing their job however.

Merlin5 said:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?276114-8120-after-1-week
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I must have missed this somehow but; Haha, loving how my laptop cpu is not too far off those results. :D:D
 
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