I think it should be faster than Phenom II.
Do you expect it slower than Phenom II?

I hope it is faster than Sandy Bridge too, clock to clock.
Bulldozer is AMD's biggest project ever. A big hoo-haa since 2005.
I expect it to blow Sandy Bridge out of water. It would be a bit of turn-off if this AMD's "greatest" architecture fails to beat Intel's.
I don't expect it to be cheap though. I think the price doesn't matter as long as it's faster than Sandy Bridge - the performance justifies the price.

@ALeUNe and Silverfire,that's Llano not Bulldozer.

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Added on June 12, 2011, 3:04 am@ALeUNe and Silverfire,those pictures you guys quoted/posted are Llano not Bulldozer

Take a look on your link, there is no 1.57.1, but 1.57 instead.
And also, CPU-Z 1.57 got the Max TDP window already.

Anyway, I wonder where they get 1.57.1 

Wanna ask pro here,
How can a software/game utilize all core of the cpu e.g. 8 cores
Izzit by programming language or game engine or the OS?
Sorry for the noob question

What is EOL? Can bulldozer fit into my MSI 870S-G46 mobo?

I choose the wrong words. The gist I wanted to share was that while some games, not all, do show loading improvements, they benefit less from SSDs than most other applications.

One of the more amazing examples of such was Neverwinter Nights (2002). When loading, for some modules it will extract thousands of tiny temporary files to disk. You'd think that with an SSD, NWN's load times would have improved like ten fold or something. Well, it didn't, I didn't felt a difference and the Windows Task Manager didn't show a difference either. I don't know how they managed that little bit of sorcery, but there you go.

On more current games, I and some other S2TW players can say that it doesn't significantly effect S2's long load times. I haven't checked against the Task Manager, so it might actually be a little faster, but it certainly doesn't feel like it. For multiplayer games, like L4D or Killing Floor, I can't say whether SSDs are better or not as my laptop's i5 CPU is also better than my friends older machines.
Systems still on SATA 1.5Gbps are not old, they are ancient.

Neverwinter knights 1 is a pretty old game. Unless u are running P4 2.0GHz and below system there is no way the current destop would bottleneck the game.

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.