AMD - Bulldozer Chitchat

[kalniel]

Why in the last slide is AMD's ram so much cheaper? DDR3 is DDR3...

Presumably it's prices at the time of purchase - if AMD were aiming to release at the same time as skt 1366 which they seem to be suggesting, then the huge delay works in their favour. It's far more than the 50% increase you'd expect going from dual to triple channel (for the same density).

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Here are the actual slides:

http://www.donanimhaber.com/islemci/...onuclari_1.htm

Basically,the CineBench score is only a tiny bit better than the Phenom II X6 1100T. However,it is strange there is no actual slide showing the results for the AMD Bulldozer processor tested.

[EvanJackPenn]

The scoripus platform says Radeon 6000. I assume that means the 7000s won't be out soon then? Probably out near to Piledriver, to be part of that platform?

[Biscuit]

im sticking with my 5870 and skipping the 6 series tbh. Feeling more confident about my sabertooth 990FX gamble though ^^

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This might be useful to consider:

http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showp...postcount=1825

Hopefully,this means x264 performance on Bulldozer will improve:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...46#post1528746

[Biscuit]

This might be useful to consider:

http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showp...postcount=1825

Personally i dont see the harm in discussing it at all... moody bugger he is eh!

[Bagnaj97]

Personally i dont see the harm in discussing it at all... moody bugger he is eh!

He should read his sig at some point:

Laugh dammit, life is too damned short not to laugh

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I think some of you are missing the important points of the post:

"A note to everyone who is arguing about whether or not the slides that have been floating the last 3 or 6 months are real or not. Do you not remember the last GPU launch?

Did we not warn you that there would be more fud floating the next time round? Did we not warn you that this is SOP for AMD at this point? No info out, only fud.

I'm kind of tired of reading the same arguments go roudn and round and am becoming very tempted to close this thread until closer to launch.

And yes, Drashek is right, we will know more by Thanksgiving because both sandy-e and bd SHOULD have launched by then. It's a fairly safe timeframe to guess at. "

This guy is admin on semi-accurate,ie,the website run by Charlie Demerjian and they AFAIK they are friends. Knowing him he generally has had accurate information about AMD in the past and the parts in bold are the important parts.

SOP means standard operating practice and in the past AMD has indicated at least with their GPU launches that they disseminate multiple specifications and information to determine leaks. How many people knew anything really concrete about the HD4000,HD5000 and HD6000 shader numbers and performance levels before launch??

The second part is about the Thanksgiving holiday which is the first week of November in the US.

Another point you perhaps should read through the whole 188 page thread and the related ones and there is more swearing,name calling and trolling in the threads over there than say on Hexus. Even when warned not too,some of the members keep on trolling until they have to be banned for a while.

This is an example of the trolling by one of the well known Intel fanbois on the website:

"To AMD all of us are only walking 100 dollar bills, so they deserve this, no humanity, no justice, nothing."

However,the same chap never says a bad word against Intel and will defend them to the hilt as he owns an Intel setup.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems they were right,October will be the launch date:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlwIFFHrNW4

[scaryjim]

Why on earth don't these tech companies subtitle their youtube videos. Don't they realise some of us either won't ro can't listen to their videos at work, even when they're work relevant? I'd love to know what AMD has to say about its new processors, and as the person who makes all the hardware buying decisions for my unit it's very work relevant, but I have no idea what he's trying to say!!!
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Sorry, that's been annoying me for a while now...

[kalniel]

Why on earth don't these tech companies subtitle their youtube videos. Don't they realise some of us either won't ro can't listen to their videos at work, even when they're work relevant? I'd love to know what AMD has to say about its new processors, and as the person who makes all the hardware buying decisions for my unit it's very work relevant, but I have no idea what he's trying to say!!!
</rant>

Sorry, that's been annoying me for a while now...

Pause. Hit 'CC'. Select transcribe audio. Select OK. Play.

Giggle occasionally as it gets it wrong.

[scaryjim]

I tried that but it didn't seem to do anything...?

I'll give it another go...

EDIT:

OK, I gave it a go.....





I still have no idea what the video was about...

[Terbinator]

Why is it only available in arse-wipe quality as well. Hmph.

[EvanJackPenn]

SOP means standard operating practice and in the past AMD has indicated at least with their GPU launches that they disseminate multiple specifications and information to determine leaks. How many people knew anything really concrete about the HD4000,HD5000 and HD6000 shader numbers and performance levels before launch??

IIRC, that really caught NVIDIA off guard for the 6000 release. They were expecting pretty mediocre competition, but the 6000 were preeeeettty damn good

[melon]

It seems they were right,October will be the launch date:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlwIFFHrNW4

Well it better hurry up my, pcs incognito now and on its last rights leaving me stuck on my trusty netbook.


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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I just saw this:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost...postcount=2046

However,according to Dresdenboy they were not using the latest version of AGESA a few weeks ago(even though it is stated as the final version in the article).