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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

Martini1991 said:
I'm surprised, I would have thought the "u" would have you screaming. :p
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It does! But for some reason the spaces before punctuation just feels like a drill to the brain. :p

Final8y said:
I have wondered at times why you have not corrected my bad ways when it comes to typing.
Maybe its because you know that i simply don't care for typing and that there is no hope. :)
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Something like that, yeah. :p

But since you mentioned it, please never put spaces before punctuation, it's the devil's work! :D
 
Long term forum lurker, been watching this threat from the beginning.

Been fun watching the back and forth of 'it's going to fail horribly' to 'its going to be messiah of computing'. :rolleyes: (possible exaggeration!!)

Sitting on the fence until November / December when i might have money to buy something new and theres a range of reviews to make minds up on weather to hold off for Ivy bridge of go back to AMD.

Now just roll on to the real release date already ^^,
 
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kylew said:
It does! But for some reason the spaces before punctuation just feels like a drill to the brain. :p



Something like that, yeah. :p

But since you mentioned it, please never put spaces before punctuation, it's the devil's work! :D
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Well i have been making a small effort with AND instead of &. :) Progress.
 
Guys what would the real advantage of having 8 cores be? Would it realistically make shizzle faster day to day, given many programs don't support this kind of architecture?
 
gurusan said:
No benefit whatsoever for the average user or gamer.
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I imagine someone will release an RTS game that can use 8 cores... in a year or two...

Until then just bask in the 168 page thread that exists to discuss a product that isn't really required and may or may not be any good! :D
 
Final8y said:
People come across much worse on the net than they do in real life.
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I hope for the sake of the people you know in real life, that is true. I have just come in to the thread again to see if there have been any more leaks, suppositions, benchmarks or guestimates to see yet more of your egotistical whining many hours after yesterday's massive non-event of an incident. Welcome to a very small and elite club, my ignore list.
 
Final8y said:
There is nothing pedantic about it, because you have not removed the quote which you can do yourself, and yet you say you understand such a simple task.
Pedantic would be me then having a go at you after you had removed it.
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I'm not doing it because you've been such a moaner about it. I've edited it, and there's a whole host of conversation that explains your moral stance, framework and christ knows what else afterwards.

There's even a post where I've said I've asked a mod to delete the lot.

Yet you still insist on moaning.

I'm following Skidder's lead, for the 2nd time in 5 years I'm adding someone to my block list.
 
Martini1991 said:
Also, not fake benchmarks, legit benchmarks. The benchmarks are from the leaked slides at an AMD internal PR event.
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Slides that were "leaked" from donanimhaber, aka the site that copy/pastes directly from OBR. Plus those slides look extremely unprofessional and use language that's very unlike anything we've seen from AMD before. Their authenticity is hotly debated all over the internet and i think they're probably fake. Unless i've missed something and AMD confirmed they are real?

Not that i'd be disappointed if they really are authentic. Performance between 2500k and 2600k is a great step forward from Phenom II and for that price i'll certainly get one.
 
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gurusan said:
Juantjie said:
Guys what would the real advantage of having 8 cores be? Would it realistically make shizzle faster day to day, given many programs don't support this kind of architecture?
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No benefit whatsoever for the average user or gamer.
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Suppose you're running a game that supports 4 cores. But you also have some other applications running in the background that also take up quite a bit of cpu power, let's say 1 core. That only leaves 3 cores for the game, which is now only running at 75% of the speed it could run at if it just had enough cores for itself. I think having more than 4 cores could be beneficial in such a situation.
 
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Bonez0r said:
Slides that were "leaked" from donanimhaber, aka the site that copy/pastes directly from OBR. Plus those slides look extremely unprofessional and use language that's very unlike anything we've seen from AMD before. Their authenticity is hotly debated all over the internet and i think they're probably fake. Unless i've missed something and AMD confirmed they are real?

Not that i'd be disappointed if they really are authentic. Performance between 2500k and 2600k is a great step forward from Phenom II and for that price i'll certainly get one.
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In 8 threaded app's. A Phenom II 1100T at the same clocks as the 8150, in those benchmarks would be inbetween the 2500k and 2600k.
 
So bored on monday morning, have done some back of the napkin calculations. With a module running 2 threads each at 80% throughput of a module running just 1 thread, relative performance should look something like:

At full load:

1 thread , 1 module = 1
4 threads, 1 per module = 4
5 threads, 1 mod 2x0.8 = 4.6
6 threads, 2 mod 2x0.8 = 5.2
7 threads, 3 mod 2x0.8 = 5.8
8 threads, 4 mod 2x0.8 = 6.4

Obviously different work types and loads wills stress the shared resources differently, so perhaps 8 less intesive threads may perform faster per core, but as a general thumb rule.
 
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