I'm tempted to buy an AM3+ board now as I could just use my own CPU and change to a Bulldozer when the time is right but, I'm also not sure if I should be looking at getting a Llano instead.
I'm tempted to buy an AM3+ board now as I could just use my own CPU and change to a Bulldozer when the time is right but, I'm also not sure if I should be looking at getting a Llano instead.
GPU physics games now tend to use proprietary PhysX unfortunately and this intentionally runs horribly on CPU (if at all). The sooner it goes in favour of an open standard the better. For example, the Frostbite engine (Battlefield) is excellent and better than most PhysX implementations I've seen yet runs from the CPU and doesn't stupidly lock you in to one platform. Frostbite 2.0 (BF3) uses DirectCompute (GPU) apparently (yay). I mean I'd prefer OpenCL but as long as you're free to use any hardware...
It depends what you want the system for - if you'll be using integrated graphics and/or no resource-hungry apps then Llano would be a good option but if you're adding a discrete GPU, you'd be best waiting for BD IMO.
Last edited by watercooled; 31-07-2011 at 08:07 PM.
Oh, will be really interesting to see BD BF3 scores then....it's supposed to be a lot more multi-threaded, so with that and the DirectCompute, it should really play well on BD.
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So would you think it is wise to buy a BD assuming it will handle future games better than, say an i5-2500k?
Haha. I guess I have plenty of time. And not many PC games would be using BD to its full potential as they don't know how to, not until launch. So it might come out a games hate it. But in a year, it might be like a whole new generation. I don't know
depends if developers can be bothered to make highly multi threaded games
Lots of games are multithreaded now, and have been since this gen of consoles forced their hand really - single threaded performance on the console CPUs is pretty poor. Not every game is heavily multithreaded but then they don't all need to be, not when the GPU is the bottleneck most of the time. For games that are quite CPU heavy, Battlefield for instance, the devs do thread it well to take advantage of multi-core CPUs.
I think single-threaded gaming performance should be pretty good on BD - each core would essentially get access to 2 cores worth of FPU performance.
Bulldozer might be released before the 19th of September:
http://semiaccurate.com/2011/08/04/b...n-really-soon/
Hopefully this is true:
http://forums.aria.co.uk/showpost.ph...7&postcount=11
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