Why I bought a Bulldozer inside

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Somebody on these forums pointed out that Toms and a few other sites used the same benchmarking kit with an nVidia 580 gpu and the same mobo ASUS Crosshair V. This these tests are using a different benchmarking kit and an AMD gpu... *cough* as intended

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I agree that the idea behind the design and the fact that it works is amazing. There are a few cases where a Bulldozer Module handles two threads really well and the sharing of the FPU make sense, though apparently not the implementation.

Even so it's like saying an average triathlete has an amazing left arm. That's nice, but it's not gonna get them first place. So too do Bulldozers finer qualities not mean much in the...
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The claims seem exaggerated, but probably have some truth to them. Even so using a custom design on some blocks would only have a small benefit on die size and efficiency compared to what would be needed to make Bulldozer truly competitive. I think this was really just a series of management failures
 
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