AMD FX "Bulldozer" review

bulldozer

kool so when do they hit the shops.......any links?
thanks....

By terranova on 12 Oct 2011

I suspect that drivers may increase the performance considerably.

Aria are taking pre-orders that I've spotted.

By skarlock on 12 Oct 2011

bulldozer

thanks i see novatech has the now too.......wooohooo

By terranova on 12 Oct 2011

Interesting

They may not beat Intel on speed and price but they are still moving in the right direction .I have one question: How much is the L1 cache?

By DeanC on 12 Oct 2011

No graphics?

These chips have no graphics processors? If this is so, AMD are throwing away their one major advantage over Intel. "As good as a mid-range Intel model in general processing PLUS a significant lead in graphics performance" would be compelling as a better balanced system.
I had hoped AMD were going down a radical modular approach so they could spin different combinations of integer, floating-point and graphics cores to suit different markets. But this actually seems pretty conservative in design.

By JohnAHind on 13 Oct 2011

Intel leaves AMD in the rear view mirror!

What a shame. I've been hoping for an AMD comeback for ages. Clearly this isn't it. I just hope that if AMD eventually go under somebody buys what's left of ATI and keeps it going. I love their graphics cards for folding.

Shane
http://diekittymaschine.blogspot.com/

By ashane on 14 Oct 2011

4GB of RAM in the test rig? That is pathetic. You may think that 4GB is enough for almost all benchmarks, but it is not. Even if only 2GB is constantly in use, there are often times where the memory usage peaks at a much higher value. A test rig for desktop CPUs should have 16GB RAM.

By dan22 on 26 Oct 2011

@dan22

16GB wouldn't have made any difference to the scores Dan. Bulldozer is pathetic - it has been a disaster from the moment of its inception. At one point, AMD overstated the number of transistors, but then, they have been outsourcing their chip production to themselves as the highest bidder for some time. The company is from a Python sketch, and the benchmark results throughout development were (and still are) astoundingly embarrassing. Not to say that their design ideas won't come good eventually, but that depends on AMD selling enough of these terrible chips to stay in business whilst Intel casually make incremental improvements that still outperform AMD, and laugh all the way to the bank.

By baldmosher on 26 Apr 2012