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Going to PM SS about this to keep the thread free of unnecessary drama.

Quote:Bulldozer is AMD's equivalent of Pentium 4. In almost every aspect they copied a failed architecture from the past in principle. They lowered IPC while trying to increase frequency at the same time to compensate for that weakness. And surprise - surprise, it didn't work as planned...

I agree with this, but I also think that there is a bit more to it then that. I think AMDs lead engineers were living in a fantasy world where general applications would be massively multithreaded by 2011.

After seeing this BD can officially take the slower and hotter crown from R600.

(12-13-2011, 08:01 PM)lamedude Wrote: [ -> ]After seeing this BD can officially take the slower and hotter crown from R600.

Man... both the performance and power usage are absolutely terrible compared to sandy bridge... Especially single core performance.

Seems like they're trying with Bulldozer, not sure how much it actually helps.

http://hothardware.com/News/Windows-Hotfix-Improves-AMD-Bulldozer-Performance/

Saw this a few weeks ago (I don't think microsoft had released it yet but they had stated that they would be releasing a fix soon and gave a preview of the potential performance improvements). It provides a 0-20% increase in performance depending on the application, with most applications getting around a 12% boost to performance. Making it still inferior to virtually everything else in the market.

Intel to Drop Sandy Bridge CPU Prices

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/intel_drop_sandy_bridge_cpu_prices

This is a bit interesting:

AMD Readies New Phenom Chips Built Around Bulldozer:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/amd_readies_new_phenom_chips_built_around_bulldozer

That's been proven false spun from old news where some mobo maker idiotically list the upcoming BD processors as Phenom II on their support page.

BD "fix":

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/microsoft_issues_hotfix_amd_bulldozer_processors_no_fooling_time

(01-12-2012, 08:22 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: [ -> ]True BD "fix":

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/microsoft_issues_hotfix_amd_bulldozer_processors_no_fooling_time

original amd post:
http://blogs.amd.com/play/2012/01/11/early-results-achieved-with-amd-fx-processor-using-windows®-7-scheduler-update/

would someone try this?