AMD - Bulldozer Chitchat

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/com..._gonna_say_it/

[Biscuit]

http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/com..._gonna_say_it/

Awww i love internet comments

downvoted. link this again on oct12.

don't waste our time with this pre-news bull****

Sounds like you've got some sand in your vagina, bro.

Have to agree with him in the most part though, teasing like that is just bent.

[shaithis]

The thing is, if you believe the release date, who has anything to gain from ****-talking 6 days before we all find out?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

These benchmarks were pulled from the website but Google cache still has them:

http://translate.google.com/translat...oren%2Ffx-8150

This is the review website:

http://translate.google.com/translat...oren%2Ffx-8150

The screenshots are from the article after a machine translation.





The test system and motherboard BIOS version are not known and 1866MHZ RAM was not used.

[Terbinator]

Is it expected to be sensitive to RAM speed?

[Biscuit]

Seems to be pretty much what i expected to be honest. Its a bit of a shame its not more but it seems AMD have found a solid platform to progress from. For the money they are asking its pretty darned good though, looking forward to slapping one in my new PC.

This one isnt even built up with the PII X4 955 yet i bought as a temporary measure, may never even get there if the release turns out to be really soon. Saying that i bet the demand is high and the stock is low....

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Is it expected to be sensitive to RAM speed?

Its hard to say but with so many cores to feed it could be!

[Terbinator]

Its hard to say but with so many cores to feed it could be!

Hmmmm. I'm guessing the CPU/NB speed will play a part as well like it did with Thuban.

[MadduckUK]

Is it expected to be sensitive to RAM speed?

nah, this whole "RAM speed sensitive" wave has come about because of Fusion, with its integrated GPU's which LOVE fast RAM, its more likely that we will be back to the norm with bulldozer, tightish timings and "fast enough" RAM ftw.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Hmmmm. I'm guessing the CPU/NB speed will play a part as well like it did with Thuban.

I still don't get why AMD did not have it higher?? That Anandtech article showed really decent gains:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3877/a...ance-scaling/7

[Biscuit]

There doesnt seem to be much of a variety of Ram with tight timings anymore. Things just seem to be CL9 as standard with the occational load of CL8.

Looking for an 8GB kit to replace my 4GB one and im not sure if i should hunt around for low timings at high speeds or just settle for CL8 at 1600MHz.

Do the timings really make that much difference anymore?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I just saw this:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post4966019

2000MHZ DDR3 is supposedly being sent to reviewers.

[dfour]

I believe with all the intergrated memory controllers on die that lower cas speeds make almost no differance except in benchmarks and e-peen.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Core unlocking might be possible with FX processors it seems:

http://emm.msi.com/display.php?List=33&N=1150#

[Hicks12]

so AMD bulldozer is looking like less of a threat to apple by the day then? . Next week i upgrade depending if BD is out, would be nice to go AMD as they always have been my favourite lol! So guess October 12th is the key date to watch for relative performance figures .

I await with great enthusiasm

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

These look like official slides:

http://www.techbang.com.tw/posts/720...87%E7%AB%A0%29

Edit!!

Here is a slide from the latest presentation:

http://cdn0.techbang.com.tw/system/i...png?1317900301



Here is a similar slide from another presentation "leaked" a few weeks ago:

http://wccftech.com/wp-content/uploa...57-635x341.jpg



It looks like someone has changed around the labels in the older "leak" it seems!!

It also seems the Windows 8 scheduler improves performance in games:

http://cdn3.techbang.com.tw/system/i...png?1317900196



The following are some more slides which look similar to the older presentation.