AMD Bulldozer Finally!

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 25 Oct 2011 at 14:49

Martini1991 said:
But as Gareth showed, in gaming, and the majority of stuff, the FX8150 is no faster than his 1090T, actually slower, and that's at 130 quid.

Its ahead in all the productivity tasks,ie,CB 11.5,DVDFfab,HandBrake by around 5% to 10% and around 5% to 10% slower in the gaming tests when both CPUs are at stock speeds. So around Phenom II X6 1075T or 1090T level seems the right price.

Martini1991 · 25 Oct 2011 at 14:51

gareth170 said:
no heat issue at that... stay at 39c~

CPU temp?
And it's still slower than the 1090T with a 2.6GHZ CPU NB

gareth170 · 25 Oct 2011 at 14:54

Martini1991 said:
CPU temp?
And it's still slower than the 1090T with a 2.6GHZ CPU NB

yeah

core temp was 29c~

that was while benchmarking that game

gareth170 · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:11

manveruppd · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:19

29C while running a benchmark at 4GHz sounds way too low... how many cores were loaded?

Jleo · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:19

Gareth

If you are the first member to review the Amd BD I suggest it would be good to have your findings in a thread of its own also, instead of being tacked to the end of this humongous rant.

just a thought

gareth170 · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:39

manveruppd said:
29C while running a benchmark at 4GHz sounds way too low... how many cores were loaded?

29C is core temp but u should ignore that

it's the cpu temp thats important which was 39c in metro2033 8 cores loaded to about 70%, 45c in cinebench115 8 cores loaded to 100%

gareth170 · 25 Oct 2011 at 16:44

hmmm getting slightly better, just lowwed the vcore and the score goes up lol.

logi-cat · 25 Oct 2011 at 17:36

share prices must be tumbling, lol.

chaotic_uk · 25 Oct 2011 at 17:49

gareth170 said:
hmmm getting slightly better, just lowwed the vcore and the score goes up lol.

the 5.91 score is that at stock speeds ?

gareth170 · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:06

chaotic_uk said:
the 5.91 score is that at stock speeds ?

yes.

manveruppd · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:25

gareth170 said:
hmmm getting slightly better, just lowwed the vcore and the score goes up lol.

Might it be cause the CPU was throttling itself to reduce temps?

gareth170 · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:30

manveruppd said:
Might it be cause the CPU was throttling itself to reduce temps?

i don't think so. max safe temp is 61c it was no way near that. also the clocks never droped

Gashman · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:35

must confess, all the sites I have visited Bulldozer looks like an interesting product to try to get the best out of, there are so many clocking options. some of them give some pretty weird results as well, like the CPU-NB speed seems to do a grand total of nothing?! where-as on Phenom II if done correctly it could yield some fairly substantial gains, hell I got around ~17% increase in frames/second in Starcraft II after messing around with CPU-NB and memory timings, nice little boost in Supreme Commander as well (possibly around ~15%) but it made no difference at all in some other applications (didn't reduce performance though!). where with Bulldozer messing with it seems to do nothing, like at all? :confused:

Gashman · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:38

gareth170 said:
i don't think so. max safe temp is 61c it was no way near that. also the clocks never droped

my old Athlon 64 X2 was like that, when clocking it would give better result with a slightly lower core voltage, which at the time I thought was a bit peculiar, nothing dramatic mind. but always thought all chips had their 'sweet spot' where they perform best, voltage is just another variable to be tweaked to be honest.

manveruppd · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:41

Bizarre and slightly worrying: it could indicate electron leakage meaning data packets would have to be re-fetched.

Gashman · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:44

manveruppd said:
Bizarre and slightly worrying: it could indicate electron leakage meaning data packets would have to be re-fetched.

to be fair there are a lot of bizarre and slightly worrying traits to Bulldozer, could get away with being called Bizzare-dozer...

chaotic_uk · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:49

gareth170 said:
yes.

same as my 1100T :confused:

MikeRossyBoy · 25 Oct 2011 at 21:28

Cooper said:
As posted earlier....the face behind the Derpdozer debacle...

Is it me or does this guy have a bit of Peter Mandleson about him?

If so that explains a lot....

chaotic_uk · 25 Oct 2011 at 22:01

MikeRossyBoy said:
Is it me or does this guy have a bit of Peter Mandleson about him?

If so that explains a lot....

he does a bit :eek: