AMD Bulldozer, Llano Launch Dates Leaked

[Guest]

we are in an era heterogeneous computing.
BUT the software isn't. This is why in theory bulldozer should be better but in practice, it won't. yeah it really suck but here why:

1- developper won't bother
2- most software, even newer one, base majority of it's code on older release which ignore hardware upgrades.
3-conversion of serial code to parallel(multi-thread) code
is much harder to develop, to debug. If possible to make at all!

4- tendency in computer science is in OOP (oriented object programming)
which basically force programmer to make huge, complex, bloated, heavy program with the result of a software a keep getting slower as features are added.
5- no one really care anymore. There are way to get very fast things done on a general purpose computer http://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/announce.html but people prefer going the easy way by spending millions on super computer!!!

 

[Venatorus]

[citation][nom]yyk71200[/nom]Sorry, 5x times power per clock Sandy Bridge can do.[/citation]
dude, that would be some serious butt kicking action if it was true 😀 (i love AMD)

 

[Guest]

Ok we will see guys. i think BULLDoZer Will Be a Shotter! And intel will be surprised!!!!

 

[Guest]

Long time since this thread started - but still no BD out! Last time I asked them, they were promised for Sept, now it's Oct.

Anybody any idea when we will have a chance to built brand new AMD based systems?

 

[silverblue]

Bulldozer has been out for a week in the guise of 8150, 8120 and 6100 models. Check reviews first and make your decision based on the type of work you're going to be doing, because at this time, Bulldozer's only true value seems to be in heavily-threaded workloads (perhaps with multiple programs at once).