AMD FX Series and A Series First Performance Projections Surface

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Originally Posted by mybestfriendskip

You are not reading it wrong. It takes AMD 8 cores to be equal to Intel's 4 - something AMD should be embarrassed of publishing.

This is a supposed leak so we cannot say for sure if it is real.

Anyway,the Core i7 990X is SLOWER than a Core i7 2600K in PCMark Vantage.

Looks at this article:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/core-i...w-32126-4.html



A 3.46GHZ six core Core i7 990X is around 20% faster than a 3.2GHZ Core i7 960 in PCMark Vantage. The Core i7 990X is 8% higher clocked than the Core i7 960 meaning that the additional two cores are adding 12% to the score and on top of this the Core i7 2600K is still faster.

PCMark Vantage does not scale well beyond 4 cores.

[filip007]

If this is true than AMD will bring 12 core that will have 6 core running on HT, that's not to bad does it, if they sell 6 shooter now, but again to little to late.

You can't have low power on 8 core and 4GHz that's true also, that escaped 8 core Xeon just have 1.6GHz that's like P4 gen.

[Super XP]

Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture is faster at whatever today's processors are meant for (x86 processing).

Bulldozer not out yet, so no proof of real world performance.
This will be quite interesting.

[rem82]

[theoneandonlymrk]

for what is probably a bull projection, it amuses me that so many intel fanboys are on this thread shouting the joys of sandybridge, how do you become so company obssesed, i dont care who makes my bits so long as their good value for money and an 8 core(logical) bulldozer is deffinately compareable to an 8core(again logical) SB 2600k they have the same imaginary amount of cores.

id wager a guess that the initial bulldozers are going to be superceded very quickly ie before 2012 by the later enhanced edditions anyway which being rev 2 will be much better again so il probably be using my q6600 till xmass

and im no fanboy but i will not tollerate intels now yearly if not 6 monthly socket swapping at all rgardless of how good a particular design of chip is (SB does look to be good except for pciex lanes)

[TheMailMan78]

I cant wait until Bta gets the real numbers on the FX so we stop hounding him. I bet he will do this dance here.....

[CDdude55]

Originally Posted by theoneandonlymrk

for what is probably a bull projection, it amuses me that so many intel fanboys are on this thread shouting the joys of sandybridge, how do you become so company obssesed, i dont care who makes my bits so long as their good value for money and an 8 core(logical) bulldozer is deffinately compareable to an 8core(again logical) SB 2600k they have the same imaginary amount of cores.

id wager a guess that the initial bulldozers are going to be superceded very quickly ie before 2012 by the later enhanced edditions anyway which being rev 2 will be much better again so il probably be using my q6600 till xmass

and im no fanboy but i will not tollerate intels now yearly if not 6 monthly socket swapping at all rgardless of how good a particular design of chip is (SB does look to be good except for pciex lanes)

Well, Sandy Bridge is an amazing performing platform, it's tough not to give them credit. I do dislike the socket changes they do all the time, but considering Intel keeps beefing up their chips and exceeding exceptions most of time, it's not really much of a hassle from that perspective. I actually moved away from i7/X58 over to Phenom II 1055t/880g because the i7's were to beastly for what i needed.

[rem82]

Prices for Bulldozer 8-core, 6-core, 4-core

[Melvis]

Originally Posted by rem82

Prices for Bulldozer 8-core, 6-core, 4-core

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=146104