CPU/Mobo Bulldozer 50% Faster than Core i7 and Phenom II

@madnav

I wasn't pointing out you I was telling it to people who think the AMD Bulldozer is still Core to Core against Intel when actually AMD has spun of a new path like Athlon 5 years ago :), sorry for creating the misunderstanding. :(
 
Lets see what the real world benchmarks show. I am all for AMD to trump Intel and get back on the charts as faster processor so that we have some competition! :)
 
I would rather take it with a pinch of salt. But those who are questioning about apps used , the dominhaber the source provider said that the Bulldozer is 50% faster in "Games, Rendering and Media Encoding". Rest will be come to light when Bulldozer actually hit the market.
 
Zloyd said:
I really really hope this is true, AMD havent had a good chip in way too long.
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AMD may not have had the most powerful cpu in a while which is true but they have some amazing VFM chips which perform really well for the amount of money you pay. Bragging rights are not everything. Majority of the cpus which sell are priced between Rs.2500 to Rs.10,000 and AMD has the most lucrative market segment in their pocket and this is what provides AMD their bread and butter because they sell in volumes.

Assuming(random example!) you try encoding a movie with your core i7 930 cpu and it takes you 5 minutes, me with my AMD 955 BE will do it in 5 minutes 20 seconds. Now would you pay a whole cartload of cash for the intel 1366 setup or rather spend much less and wait for 20 seconds(which is not really a long wait). When it comes to gaming it totally depends on your GPU. Also AMD's backward compatibility with their cpu sockets for newer cpus is what makes them popular rather than in Intel's case which usually means a whole new motherboard every time you need to upgrade.

I am waiting for the new AM3+ motherboards to show up and quickly snag one.
 
My thoughts from here: http://www.techenclave.com/cpu-mobo-corner/bulldozer-to-come-close-core-i7-182318.html

One more thing, given the transistors in 1 module = 2 cores to be 218 million or so(read it at anand's i guess), that puts 4 module = 8 cores at 872 million.

Now at 32nm, Sandy Bridge die with some 995 million transistors at 216mm^2, so keeping things nearly same, Bulldozer 4 module = 8 cores at 872 million & 189mm^2

At that, if AMD manages to give a 50% increase in performance over Phenom II X6 and current Core i7(hopefully Sandy Bridge i7), then it seems Bulldozer might be heading to become a real winner.
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its bull crap 8cores vs 4 cores hahahahaha and only 50% faster do the math what will intels next step just slap two more cores and here you go

i will bet on the processor that will be less costly and comparable speed
 
manpreetsingh46 said:
its bull crap 8cores vs 4 cores hahahahaha and only 50% faster do the math what will intels next step just slap two more cores and here you go

i will bet on the processor that will be less costly and comparable speed
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Those are not actually cores. Those are modules having integer cores. Like Intel Hyper Threading.
 
^ well if apple gets onto the Bulldozer and uses it in its next refresh (highly unlikely), then I am going to get my self a bullz.....if not I am with intel. However you can always trust some guys to get the faster bullz to work with osx, that will solve our problems then. Anyway, my proccy choice depends wierdly on apple for the sake of hackintoshing.
 
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