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    Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Supposedly this was leaked from AMD:

    http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-S...s-177958.shtml

    http://www.techpowerup.com/138328/Bu...Phenom-II.html

    http://www.donanimhaber.com/islemci/...daha-hizli.htm

    I am now officially confused at the supposed performance of AMD Bulldzoer.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    So was it 8 cores, or 8 modules ?

    Why can nothing be simple
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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    So was it 8 cores, or 8 modules ?

    Why can nothing be simple
    8 module AFAIK.

    I added some extra links BTW.

    Edit!!

    It should be 4 module! Doh!
    Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 13-01-2011 at 02:02 PM.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    If this is anywhere near true I will definatly be upgrading later this year. Bulldozer FX FTW

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    From the links it looks like 8 core, so 4 module. 8 module would be 16 core and should be a lot more than 50% faster than anything currently available - in multithreaded tasks, at least

    If an 8 core is 50% faster than an i7 950, then a 6 core would only be about 12% faster, assuming perfect per-core scaling and a benchmark suite that uses all the cores. Given that the X6 1100T is not that far behind the i7 950 in single threaded tasks and just ahead of it in heavily threaded tasks, I'm actually not massively impressed at that. Essentially, if they release 6-core bulldozer at whatever clocks they ran these benchmarks, they'll only be 10% faster than the existing 6-core Thubans?

    Of course, if these tests were conducted at the kind of clock speeds their entry level chips will be using, and they can clock them much higher for top end chips, then we have a different story. But until we see some figures that are actually comparative, I'm going to put the champagne back on ice...

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    From the links it looks like 8 core, so 4 module. 8 module would be 16 core and should be a lot more than 50% faster than anything currently available - in multithreaded tasks, at least

    If an 8 core is 50% faster than an i7 950, then a 6 core would only be about 12% faster, assuming perfect per-core scaling and a benchmark suite that uses all the cores. Given that the X6 1100T is not that far behind the i7 950 in single threaded tasks and just ahead of it in heavily threaded tasks, I'm actually not massively impressed at that. Essentially, if they release 6-core bulldozer at whatever clocks they ran these benchmarks, they'll only be 10% faster than the existing 6-core Thubans?

    Of course, if these tests were conducted at the kind of clock speeds their entry level chips will be using, and they can clock them much higher for top end chips, then we have a different story. But until we see some figures that are actually comparative, I'm going to put the champagne back on ice...
    The document cited compared an 8-core processor based on the "Bulldozer" high-performance CPU architecture with a 4-core, 8-thread, Intel Core i7 950 and with a six-core Phenom II X6 1100T CPU, in three different usage scenarios (media, rendering and games).

    50% faster than a Phenom II X6 in games looks quite a decent increase TBH.
    Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 13-01-2011 at 02:19 PM.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    8 module AFAIK.

    I added some extra links BTW.
    It says 8 core, so that would be 4 modules with each module giving 2 cores.

    Given the difference in how these chips get their 8 threads each, the interesting metric to me would be how big the die is to get that performance.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    It says 8 core, so that would be 4 modules with each module giving 2 cores.

    Given the difference in how these chips get their 8 threads each, the interesting metric to me would be how big the die is to get that performance.
    I edited my answer.

    Hopefully,Bulldozer will be smaller than the Phenom II X6.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Wow this is great news for AMD, Bulldozer really does look promising. About this core vs thread vs module thing, I think it's more fair to compare a module to an Intel core and a Bulldozer 'core' to an Intel thread. I know there's more to a module than there is to a HT core but I do think this is a better comparison. Of course TDP/price/die+core size will prove/disprove that when they are released.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    I edited my answer.

    Hopefully,Bulldozer will be smaller than the Phenom II X6.
    From Anandtech some time back:

    "AMD tells us that the second integer core increases the Bulldozer module die by around 12%, despite significantly increasing performance in threaded integer applications."

    I don't think we will ever see a Phenom II on 32nm so a direct comparison to their previous gen might be hard.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    I'd love it if this were true. Sadly the realist in me won't let me get excited until I see some real numbers from 3rd parties.

    The realist in me also says that if AMD had samples performing like this prior to CES, then it would be insane from a marketing perspective not to give the world a sneak peak and rain on Intel's Sandy Bridge parade.

    For anyone about to buy Sandy Bridge though, this news might have been enough to make them hold off a little bit longer.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    By the time its out who will care?

    Not being funny, I used to love my AMD chips but since C2D they havent been close to my main machine...

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Quote Originally Posted by [GSV]Trig View Post
    By the time its out who will care?

    Not being funny, I used to love my AMD chips but since C2D they havent been close to my main machine...
    They are meant to be released in April 2011.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    I am now officially confused at the supposed performance of AMD Bulldzoer.
    Why the confusion? It's consistent with the last piece of 'leaked' info regarding the 6 core i7s. Bulldozer has a phenomenal (heh) int throughput if you can parallelise the job - really acts like an 8 core machine which you'd expect to beat a 4 core (950) or 6 core (970) in the right task.

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    Nice one amd! I was just about to go intel for my new build, but 50% more performance than i7 is worth waiting for

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    Re: Bulldozer 8 module CPU 50% faster than Core i7 950!

    The question is does it compete with Sandybridge Ex? This is where the real battle will commence, the Sandybridge architecture is where the real problem is not the last gen Core i processors.

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