AMD Bulldozer is here, oops!

[TonyD]

My biggest disappointment with Zambezi was seeing how poor the single thread performance is, especially compared to the previous generation (Deneb/Thuban) chips. I can accept that the multi-threading capability is a bit ahead of its time, but it’s unacceptable that a new cpu will not perform as well as the ones it replaces in the majority of current (single-threaded) desktop applications. I also do not see how this can be improved without a major re-design of the architecture – the predicted 15% improvement with the next iteration (PileDriver) is still somewhat short of what it needs to be

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by TonyD

My biggest disappointment with Zambezi was seeing how poor the single thread performance is, especially compared to the previous generation (Deneb/Thuban) chips. I can accept that the multi-threading capability is a bit ahead of its time, but it’s unacceptable that a new cpu will not perform as well as the ones it replaces in the majority of current (single-threaded) desktop applications. I also do not see how this can be improved without a major re-design of the architecture – the predicted 15% improvement with the next iteration (PileDriver) is still somewhat short of what it needs to be

Maybe AMD will come back with their Forklifttruck chipset next?

Whoever thinks up their silly macho chipset names needs to be sacked.

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by Katana1000S

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