AMD Expects Significant Performance Improvements with Steamroller Microprocessors

[opethdisciple]

Looks interesting

Would a 10-15% IPC increase on BD make it competitive against the SB cpu's?

 

[opethdisciple]

Steamroller isn't the next iteration, Piledriver is.

Yes but if you look at the graph, they state 15% improvement with every iteration, which makes piledriver 15% better than BD.

 

[opethdisciple]

Initially I would have upgraded to a BD chip when they came out as I didn't want another 4 core I wanted next gen which would ave been 8, but due to overwhelming negativity surrounding the chip choose to wait.

SB turns me off because of the limitation it has on the mobo side of the equation.

So I thought OK, I'll wait for IVB which is basically SB but with all the mobo issues sorted.

Now I'm hearing IVB runs hot and wont clock as well. Brings me back to where I started again thinking maybe I want an octo core anyway.

I take it piledriver is due for release this year?

 

[opethdisciple]

Was just looking at some reviews of the 8150 gaming benchmarks.

Terrible, behind even the SB i3.

 

[opethdisciple]

I honestly feel that history will look at Bulldozer as a highly threaded CPU that was ahead of it's time.

Probably, but why did AMD not see this?

Surely for a company to make money they have to produce a product which has demand in the market.

Not something that is revolutionary but falls flat on its face because the rest of the ecosystem hasn't caught up or cant utilize its architecture.

Even Windows 8 which supposedly will have better support, wont improve it that much.