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Originally Posted by Neuromancer
AMD has announced they no longer care about x86 performance. So do not excpcet Bulldozer to be a superpi champion. Most benchmarks will probably put it behind X58 for single threaded.
They are focusing more on APU and multi threaded performance now, so Bulldozer will be looked at as more of a "whole system" deal than just a CPU. RW testing will show it to be a stellar system, but "the norm" benchmarks will probably not show it to be so.
Just my thought based on Llano APUs performance.
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Well isn't Llano and BD two different architectures? I mean bulldozer has no iGPU so they can't play the same game they are with Llano and the new E350 "brazos??" that just launched. It will have to perform all on it's own.
I totally understand where you are coming from about the benchmarks and whatnot, but what stops me from considering AMD for a daily rig is the actual game benchmarks. There are several games where AMD is 10, 20 or more FPS behind any Intel CPU whether it be 1366, 1155, or 1156. Sure you still have plenty of FPS to play with and still maintain good frame rates, but what about games a year and a half from now?
Personally I hope they hit a homerun. Sadly Kal is probably right when he says it will just get them one cycle closer to matching Intel. Maybe they'll catch up on the BD refresh.