Bulldozer is not what we expected?

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Yup, once people have their grubbies on them, we'll start to see some practical numbers coming up
I'll be happy if mine takes 4GHz nicely, I'm not greedy hehe
**Edit, after a bit of sleep, I'm taking a 975 to tide things over, but still feeling the disappointment lol**
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amd bd = one huge ultra fail. I mean why would I buy the top 8 core version for £200 when I can get a better performing 2500k for £150. BD is a total let down, its like waitin 4 megan fox to take her clothes off and when she does, BOOM shes hairy. ok i failed there my bad
 
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People expected too much. Simple as that really. The i5-2500k was an already known outstanding performer. It was always going to be hit or miss as to if AMD would take a lead, so far, its seemingly a miss.

At least AMD and Intel are a little more "on par" now so users who do really want an AMD system, can stick with it and gain similar performance and a similar price.
 
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i want to know why people are pitting this against an i5...this isnt intel's flagship model. the i7 is. thats what amd should have been aiming for. they are still so drastically behind intel, while intel can now sit on the IB, and their next age platform *haswell?* in the driver's seat. Maybe amd's problem is that people dont expect enough from them.

I know you people are all lovey dovey with amd, but truth of the matter is, intel is about to monopolize the cpu market. what do you think prices will be like then? we will never see a $100 cpu within reasonable performance again. and you people are saying "well i5's are a great chip...". The i7's ARE WHERE WE NEED TO BE AIMING! BD is a let down, and price to performance, intel should be even or sub-par...not better than AMD. Thats where AMD has kept their market alive. Intel was always more expensive, and was either par per dollar, or not quite as good. For the enthusiats though, this was ok, cuz top product deserved top dollar. now, we have an over priced chip, under performing our competitors 2nd place chip.

wow amd, great job. its ok your product is terrible, and way over hyped. its not your fault. its those nasty intel people with their awesome i5 chip. we shouldnt expect you to beat that.

BS!
 
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^^ Intel CAN'T monopolize the CPU market; AMD owns the AMD64 patent, which Intel needs as the world moves to X64. In a few years, AMD won't even need the X86 license anymore, as everyone will eventually move to 64-bit. Besides, AMD is still superior in servers, which [as I long predicted] will favor BD's heavily-multicored architecture more then Desktops did.
 
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sorry about not specifying which market. I meant homebuilders market. I could care less about businesses who get write offs and discounts for server hardware. All of the people who actually count on having a home pc will soon have to pay double or triple if amd doesnt get their act together. IDK about you, but i cant afford a $300 processor. and if amd doesnt start producing better products for regular consumers, thats what we are going to start seeing for people who need to upgrade their systems to something that is barely hitting the top 5 in options coming off the line.
 
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People expected too much.
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That may be true. You could say that in a way AMD is not responsible for our decision on WAITING 6 Months on this Product and deciding to Purchase on Upgrading to a MB that can support it. But what I find so Disgusting about BD is that it requires at least DOUBLE the Voltage of an Intel i5 or i7 to even get squashed by it!! :fou: :fou: :fou:

So you know what? AMD can keep there Product. I've already put my Asus CHV and My AMD Phenom II 955BE on sale on Ebay. :pfff:
 
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Hope you can find a buyer. 😀
 
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they shud put their money into developing something that can beat intel, if they cant ever do that then put all of it into GPUS which is what their good at. I had a phenom 955 machine at home and upon reading benchmarks i went home and beat the life out of it with a baseball bat. No more amd for me,ever, unless its a gpu of course :)
 
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Its the fastest chip they could come up with and squeeze out of the 32nm process and thermal limitations im sure. They don't have space to add more cores. over all i think they've done a good job. what was it over 100GFLOPS? that's pretty amazing and it doesn't cost the earth.

But being the owner of ATI now, im kind of surprised that they haven't found a way to successfully FUSE a GPU and CPU, such as print GPU cores into the CPU floating point cores?? i know GPUS cant handle the variety of general purpose instructions but we know they can crunch floating point numbers at rates of well over TFLOP.
Why cant a CPU incorporate this???? beats me.

That would be a very exciting chip because it wouldn't need special CUDA or STREAM programming to utilize the performance. Then again there's probably technical reasons its not possible.



 
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I must be missing something, how is it a dud? Does it crush SB? No. At times its faster, other times its not. Wouldn't we call that a tie? I never expected it to get close to the 990x, a 6C/12T CPU. But if you use your computer for many common tasks and want to play games, then it does pretty good.

It's biggest failing is in power and single thread performance. Power use is much to high. And they seem to be taking the Intel "P4 approach" to pipeline/clock speed. If Intel couldn't do it, why should they? Overall BD is what I expected it to be, minus the power and loss in IPC. I would have thought IPC would have stayed similar. But that's the risk with a new Arch.
 
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Actually in the unfortunate event AMD should fail as a business AMD will most likely be forced to sell the patent to raise cash to payoff the bondholders. In the investment world the companies ultimately answer to the bondholders because it is the bondholders who initially provided the money to start up the business. Stockholders are screwed in the event of bankruptcy because the bondholders are first in line to reclaim their money. That includes the sale of any assets both physical and intellectual.

Perhaps Intel may invest money into AMD much like how Microsoft invested money into Apple when it was on the verge of financial collapse. Now look at Apple, it is the biggest company in the world by market value (i.e stock price * the number of shares). Hmmm.... maybe Intel won't give AMD a lifeline....
 
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But AMD doesnt have Jobs.
 
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Totally it is not what I expected, being an AMD Fanboy even I am extremely disappointed, Luckily I didn't buy an AM3+ MOBO. However, It could be that by playing with the frequencies of the different cores/modules to configure it to specific tasks. I think I'll probably switch to either 2600K or 2500K. Unfortunately, AMD did not make it in this arena.
 
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Please do..... We desperately need a fresh perspective and newer better reviews.
 
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Why is everyone saying that the entire bulldozer series sucks when only the 8-core cpu was tested? We still haven't seen the quad and hexacore processors, which are the only ones that I really cared to see.
 
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