Bulldozer time!

[EtherealN]

Just finished reading the techreport review of AMD's new processor: http://techreport.com/articles.x/21813

 

Very interesting results, but I'm largely pretty disappointed. AMD CPU's have always had a place in my heart from the days of the Athlon "revolution", but... :/

Can't say I was surprised though. Enough information on the architecture was out there that I'd have expected pretty much that picture, but there are cases where I feel it should have performed better than it did. Some of those results are just shocking.

 

Will be interesting to see how that picture might change when/if software is re-engineered to truly take advantage of it's innovations, but for now I'm not impressed.

[Eddie]

AMD? Didn't they make processors for computers once upon a time? I thought they gave up and shut up shop years ago. :pilotfly:

[Mustang]

AMD? who do you think makes the Radeon cards nowadays? they are very alive and in business :)

[emenance]

I have asked Ryan at Pcper.com to include DCS software in his review of the Bulldozer series. If anyone here wants to contribute to that work with some predifined software ED may have .....please contact them at PCper.com

 

thanks

[EtherealN]

I have asked Ryan at Pcper.com to include DCS software in his review of the Bulldozer series. If anyone here wants to contribute to that work with some predifined software ED may have .....please contact them at PCper.com

 

thanks

 

It should be farely easy to do actually, no special settings needed: just make sure to have a busy track with lots of action. I would, however, definitely recommend that they start the track, let it run, ignore the result, and then run it again with FRAPS tracking the frametimes. Depending on windows caching and swapping, this may help remove HDD access bottlenecks from polluting the results. (Obviously, an alternative is to just have extreme drive access speeds - i.e performance SSD's.)

 

If they need to get a copy of the software for use, I'm sure they can contact Jim about that and hopefully he'll be able to help them.

[EtherealN]

AMD? who do you think makes the Radeon cards nowadays? they are very alive and in business :)

 

Well, technically they don't make the cards. :P They do create a reference design, but most performance card vendors end up making custom PCB's that just use the AMD-designed GPU. (I know I know, colloquially they make the cards, but I love being the nitpicker whenever I'm bored and haven't slept. :P )

 

But I think you largely missed out at observing Eddie's sarcasm. :P

Edited October 15, 2011 by EtherealN

[Insanatrix]

I was hoping this would be something that would give Intel a run for their money but instead I'm disappointed as well.

[Pilotasso]

Its rather difficult to optimize software for a particular CPU and one that is not even market leader.

 

This AMD is good for low budget renderers and highly multitaked environments, but for the large majority it is a FLOP.

 

It is slower than a I5 2500K for anything under 5-6 threads.

[Vault]

Save your money and wait for Ivybridge.