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Originally Posted by Kodoss
You know that the bulldozer-architecture is completely new, and that all following CPUs from AMD will use it as fundamentals for the next 5 years. So there will be optimizations in the future.
Let it run the tests with its competitors after one year again, then we can determine if it's good or not.
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Cant fault you on that for hopeful optimism, but by that time Intel will be light years ahead again, Ivy Bridge is out 1st quarter 2012 and this time next year they will be optimized even more ... I'm really sorry to see AMD get left behind like this.
I've been building my own PC's since 1990 now and and have swung back and forth between Intel and AMD as the performance or even the price per performance (bang for buck) dictated, but Bulldozer working worse than current gen AMD high end processors is nothing but a complete embarrassment, it wouldn't be so bad if they hadnt been shouting from the rooftoops how this CPU release was going to topple Intel I7's the past year or so.
Lets face it, the multicore CPU market is hard to sell to, and AMD have messed this up royally.
Will be interesting to see some FSX benchmarks though, after FSX SP2 that sim can sort of use up to 24 CPU cores, but its the raw speed of each Bulldozer core that is the major disappointment here, its all very well having long pipe lines (as Bulldozer seems to have done) but SB shorter pipelines gets more work done per clock cycle ... its all about efficiency and in this area it looks pretty certain this Bulldozer release ... optimizing or not is a Lemon.
Sorry mate, one of my best friends is a die hard AMD guy and he sounded in shock when I spoke to him on the phone just now.
Bottom line is, we all hoped Bulldozer was gonna be the killer they claimed it would be, its been delayed enough without waiting years more for optimisations, AMD need to start from scratch IMHO ... this really does mean no price drops for Intel Sandy Bridge parts and they can charge what they like for the forthcoming SB-E and Ivy Bridge.
No competition is bad news for us consumers
