disolitude said:
Vashyo said:
AMD should be releasing the Bulldozer-line of processors which are supposed to be 50% faster than the phenom II/Core i7 processors in a month or so.
If you want to get a comp right now, could be a smart thing to find a AM3-motherboard with AM3plus CPU support so that you can upgrade it later. Or if you're not in a hurry I'd suggest waiting for the CPUs and see what they've got to offer.
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If Bulldozer turns out to be another fusion gpu/cpu which can't touch i7 in raw performance, but can get up to "50% better performance" in games and multimedia than Intels standalone CPU and their shitty integrated graphics...I am going to be very upset.
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Bulldozer isn't Fusion. Just a CPU. So they can't do that.
The 50% claim DOES NOT APPLY TO DESKTOP WORKLOADS. According to AMD, it only applies to server workloads that use 16 threads, and refers to a server top bin 16-core BD chip against a server 12-core 2.3GHz Magny-Cours. That claim isn't "up to", it's an average of standard server workloads.
However I expect its performance to be similar to SB on 8-threaded applications. Single threaded might be weaker at the same clock but given it will Turbo 600MHz or more for low thread counts that should not be an issue.
