AMD Bulldozer News and Discussion

[gameranand]

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

Quite honestly for the end customer these records hardly matter at all. They need nice performance on stock speed and even if they do overclock then also intensity for that is not much so these make no difference. I need a nice CPU who performs really good not a record holder CPU.

 

[topgear]

^^ agreed - but nice cpus most of the time tends to be a record holder

 

[gameranand]

^^ agreed - but nice cpus most of the time tends to be a record holder

Then I hope that bulldozer would be damn good when it gets released.

 

[Skud]

Not Celeron though.

 

[Hustlerr]

I am going to make rig in mid oct will bulldozer be out then or i will go for sandy bridge?

 

[Skud]

All AMD FX Processors will be unlocked

 

[MegaMind]

^^I highly doubt Bulldozer to compete with SB i7... I guess thats the reason AMD is trying whatever possible...

Jus my opinion..

 

[Skud]

Intel will be releasing the i7 2700 around the same time. So price to performance ratio might not be that bad.

 

[topgear]

New BullDozer CPU Pricing

AMD’s FX Series will be very, very cheap: the six-core FX-6100 (i.e. three Bulldozer modules) clocked at 3.3GHz, with a Turbo Core boost to 3.9GHz, will retail for just $155. The eight-core (four-module) FX-8120, clocked at 3.1GHz and boosted to 4GHz, will retail for $185 — and the 3.6GHz/4.2GHz FX-8150 will retail for $230. Each Bulldozer module has 2MB of L2 cache, so the FX-6100 has 6MB of L2 — and its eight-core brethren have 8MB. All three chips have 8MB of L3 cache

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OMG ! If this is going to happen we will be able to get a 6 Core BullDozer CPU at only ~7.5k which is a lot less Cheaper than P2 based 6 core cpus and The 8 core FX-8120 will be a lot less cheaper than P2 based top of the line 6 core cpu - so how much price drop we will see on P2 based quad and hexa core after the release of BullDozer Cpu - A a quad core Cpu for everyone - anyone

 

[gameranand]

Awesome. I expected prices to be low but not this much for sure.

 

[ssb1551]

New BullDozer CPU Pricing



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OMG ! If this is going to happen we will be able to get a 6 Core BullDozer CPU at only ~7.5k which is a lot less Cheaper than P2 based 6 core cpus and The 8 core FX-8120 will be a lot less cheaper than P2 based top of the line 6 core cpu - so how much price drop we will see on P2 based quad and hexa core after the release of BullDozer Cpu - A a quad core Cpu for everyone - anyone

You converted that $155 directly to Rs but thats not how prices in India will be determined!! I think FX-6100($155) will retail somewhere around 9-9.5k when launched over here!!

 

[rahul2002]

well, i7-2600k costs 319$ in us and around 15.5k in india. So i am assuming the 8 core fx cpu will cost around 11.5k.....

 

[Skud]

2600k's price has stabilized over time. Newer products would be priced a bit higher. Something like 1USD=60INR.

 

[vickybat]

Well topgear is right. When i bought my i5 750, it was retailing around 199$. Here, it was 10.3k. So i think the fx 6100 will retail here within 8k for sure. 7-7.5k will be a steal.

Now that's really aggressive pricing. Amd surely knows how to price its cpu's.

 

[MegaMind]

So price-wise AMD has done an awesome job.. Waiting for the performance!!!

 

[Skud]

Hope Indian pricing will be right.

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Just the piece of information we needed:

AMD FX parts coming October 12

 

[nilgtx260]

I highly doubtful to this pic but still wanna share with you guys.
*techiser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/AMD-Bulldozer-Benchmarks-Leaked.png

 

[Skud]

What type of CPU is "Scientific Linux 6"?

Some more news:

Bulldozer to be succeeded by Vishera core

 

[topgear]

Scientific Linux 6 is not a cpu - it's linux distro AFAIK

and thanks for the 12th Oct release date of BullDozer Desktop cpus.

 

[Skud]

Exactly my question - what's it's doing in a bunch of CPUs?