AMD Bulldozer News and Discussion

[sumonpathak]

^^ All from Delta Peripherals - also they have ASUS Crosshair V Formula 990FX at 14.7k - want to grab one , eh

moi got one already

 

[sukesh1090]

@Jaskanwar Singh
link is not working for me.

 

[coderunknown]

^^ working fine for me. try again.

 

[topgear]

guys check this out

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and check the source - there's some great differences shown clearly between AM3 and AM3+

 

[gameranand]

I thought bulldozer was releasing on 13 september. Did I missed something ??

 

[topgear]

^^ no - desktop BullDozer cpu release delayed again

AMD's Bulldozer CPU is on the verge of being released. Sever markets will see the CPU soon, while desktop customers will have to wait until Q4 (which is only a month away at this point). No one likes to ship a delayed part, but if you do your job right the part that follows should arrive in a timely fashion. The follow-on to Bulldozer is called Piledriver and it will make its debut with AMD's Trinity APU in 2012.

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AnandTech - Look Out Bulldozer, Here Comes Trinity: AMD's 2012 Demo on Video at IDF

 

[Tech_Wiz]

Good thing I didnt wait on BD and bought Ph4

This baby is getting delayed like anything.

 

[gameranand]

Well I am still waiting for bulldozer and radeon 7000 seriesfor my purchase. I already have radeon 5770 so even if I do purchase other components then also I'll wait for 7000 series GPUs to release in Q1 2012,

 

[d6bmg]

I already have radeon 5770

That card will server you without any problem at least for next 6-7 months, which is Q2, 2012. And by that time we can even expect some amount of price drop in 7xxx, as nvidia will release their cards too.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

^depends on the resolution and settings he games at.

 

[d6bmg]

He can also play game at lower resolution to increase fps a bit for the time being.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

He can also play game at lower resolution to increase fps a bit for the time being.

yeah but full hd gaming is much more enjoyable.

 

[gameranand]

I play games at 1080p after my purchase of monitor purchase Benq G2420HD in August. It was giving quite good performance even on full resolution with many games which I have to play. But nevertheless I have to upgrade and I'll buy new PC soon with all your suggestions.

 

[MegaMind]

AMD Bulldozer FX-81X0 Official Benchmarks vs Intel Core i7-980X, i5-2500

 

[Skud]

Contains same information of the link given by Jas earlier. Again, with no detailed hardware specification and running just a couple of benchmarks proved nothing IMO.

 

[Xeo]

New benchmarks leaked/purposefully shown.
Show FX-8150 being almost twice as slow as i7 2600K in an age old benchmark.
This made me sad...

 

[gameranand]

We need some proper trusted source for complete comparision between processor not some random link with just a few benchmarks. I hope to see comparisions soon with Bulldozer winning in that comparision.

 

[topgear]

^^ me too

I'm not giving any kind of importance to these early benches floating around - only after seeing some real benchmarks with the final released retail product from some trusted sources we will get the true picture

 

[nilgtx260]

AMD's Bulldozer 8.4 GHz+ OC Achievement: Cooled to Near-Absolute Zero | techPowerUp

 

[d6bmg]

^^ That was just an exception. It counts nothing towards extended better performance.