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Official Bulldozer Reviews

Pitched again the 980x by AMD yes. But in reality it's aiming at the 2500k.

Silly AMD indeed. Clutching at straws in the marketing meeting where the only thing left was to compare on price against the most expensive Intel chip they could find.
 
Really bad news for everyone not to have any effective competition.

I have a 2500K but was interested to see what AMD could do.

At least they still make good GPU's. They just need to take some more time to work on their CPU's.

It's a good idea in theory and BD may be strong in the end but at the moment it is too early for it's time.

We just don't have enough multi threaded apps yet.

Honestly AMD did well with the A's and I think that is where they will go with their CPU business. CPU+GPU on one die.
 
Aurhinius said:
We just don't have enough multi threaded apps yet.
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Well, we do.

We just do not use them exclusively and still need good IPC for low-threaded applications.

It's a moot point though, even in the heavily threaded applications now the 8150 is lack lustre where it SHOULD be King of the Hill. It's not.
 
AMD are just total garbage at the moment, First they launch 6970 and it sucks really.. And now this, My next system will deffo be Intel n nvidia, Amd has had chance after chance and there still failing.
 
jorzeh said:
AMD are just total garbage at the moment, First they launch 6970 and it sucks really.. And now this, My next system will deffo be Intel n nvidia, Amd has had chance after chance and there still failing.
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You have a 990x and 580sli. What's the problem? lol
 
They are going to need a very aggressive pricing policy to take away from the SB.

Plus why did they miss out on per core performance? Is SB that good, or are they relying on future multi-threaded applications?
 
Now Bulldozer is regarded as a failure how soon before we see big price drops when it does not sell well?

If they get really cheap I still fancy an 8 core to mess with (probably 8120)- is that wrong???
 
stuartw_b said:
Plus why did they miss out on per core performance? Is SB that good, or are they relying on future multi-threaded applications?
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All of the sources say that they aimed to improve per core performance, which any Phenom II owner will tell you they needed to do (compared to Intel) but for some reason it went backwards.

The 2600K is as fast in multi-threaded applications so it's not even as if it's any more future-proof.
 
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