I'll cross my fingers and hope that AMD will be able to get back on track as a manufacturer of best bang for bucks CPU. Not that I want to return back to AMD ( which I probably won't for quite a long time ), but I don't want to pay RM1500 for an Intel Core i3 ( assuming that they're still going to use such a name ).

All hope's not lost for AMD anyway. Reduced profit is better than little to no profit, so they better make a smart move now to save themselves from collapsing .

Somehow I feel this new architecture is just a beginning for AMD. They say it scales pretty well when u go into more cores etc.

This was just the 1st batch of a new design. They got more plans and stuff ahead so perhaps, that was their plan.

It's depending on the software too. Unless the software is optimized for multi-thread, putting more modules onto the die won't be making much difference.

Reminds me of Phenom 1st version, so I guess FX-II-8xx is the new batch? Anyway, they had better step up their plan fast, many people are pissed that they waited so long for such a weak show.

if they have done this i think maybe the faildozer bulldozer might not have failed so badly:
remove or trim down the massive L3 cache to make room for 2 more ALU in each of their "core"..

this way they can get more ipc than compared to now because right now, there are only two alu for each "core"

This post has been edited by ben_panced: Oct 12 2011, 09:24 PM

Guess I'll keep my X6 for now

There might be a chance if AMD recalls all bulldozer processors and report that all of them are faulty and send in the real chips

Love bulldozer, great architecture and design.
Price is wise too!

Well, too bad it is AMD.

This post has been edited by DuDe5593: Oct 12 2011, 09:46 PM

It won't help.
It is very likely Intel's 2 core with HT will beat 4xxx & 6xxx out of water (considering it's already outperformed PhenomII x4 & x6 in many benchmarks).

I think AMD should stop selling the crap of hex & octa -cores.
She should have focused on developing 2 cores and 4 cores, with 50% better per-core-performance than Intel's.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Oct 12 2011, 09:52 PM

at least Fermi is superior than its competitor Radeon 6000 series, but Bulldozer fail to beat Sandy Bridge and bound to get killed by Ivy Bridge lolz

Why didn't AMD think of that

I think if Bulldozer was just 6 core at max with better performance worth those 2 cores, maybe it could make a dent on Intel's SB

I'm guessing BD is actually a faulty chip bought from Intel

It's either AMD live in her own world or her employees screwed it up big time.

http://blogs.amd.com/work/2010/08/23/%E2%8...ions-round-one/
http://blogs.amd.com/work/2010/08/30/bulld...2%80%93-part-2/
http://blogs.amd.com/work/2010/09/13/bulld...estions-part-3/

Big boost in performance when using single threaded applications? Great deal of power savings?
And don’t worry about the single threaded performance –we have already stated publicly that Bulldozer single threaded performance is expected to be higher than our current core architectures?
Looking at the Q&A, obviously the marketing guy just picked something from the sky. He is clueless of what the engineering team doing in the lab.

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Added on October 12, 2011, 10:09 pmI hope a driver update could boost up the performance of BD by at least 50%.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Oct 12 2011, 10:13 PM

Seen the benchmark that utilises all threads? Still below i7 2600K. So I've no idea how a new new design can beat SB-E or IB.

Kinda confuse, does "Bulldozer" processor include graphic chips? like the SB does.

This post has been edited by CultTech: Oct 12 2011, 11:24 PM

No, but thier APU "Llano" have GPU inside if im correct.

i3 2100 ftw

This post has been edited by Eugene91: Oct 12 2011, 11:45 PM

Really no reason not to get a Sany it seems.

Oh well.

think better go to i7 now...
waste of time waiting for new proc...

waited so long for this bulldozer jst to find there's not so much difference performance with my X6 haish...dissapointed wait, Power consumption chugged alot of watts under full load


This post has been edited by Beatmasta: Oct 13 2011, 03:50 AM

I'm using Athlon X2 4200+ ... runs most apps ok but not as fast as I want sometimes sluggish

was hoping bulldozer will be impressive... but its ok AMD try again I will wait for Bulldozer2, should be out early next year right?

I don care about having the fastest, just fast enough to run everything available today @ good price...

hope "AMD the smarter choice" will get back its meaning soon! NEVER INTEL, I will wait AMD just get busy and make a nice chip Ktkxbye

what about the improvements seen in windows 8?

what if bulldozer is not really bad, just that the software needs updates to use the new functions/hardware acceleration/whatever that is in the processor??

theres hope for some recovery?