Is there anything like that going on for this site ?This forum thread is for QUESTIONS ABOUT DESKTOP BULLDOZER / ZAMBEZI ONLY. ONE CLEAR AND CONCISE QUESTION PER POST.
yeah he's called JFAMD
im sorry we dont need an "offical" thread.
JFAMD will tell us what he can, and what he can't he wont.
As long as people dont bait him and call him names, he's usually very helpful in answering AMD questions.
yeah he's called JFAMD
im sorry we dont need an "offical" thread.
JFAMD will tell us what he can, and what he can't he wont.
As long as people dont bait him and call him names, he's usually very helpful in answering AMD questions.
Most of the questions relate to IPC, and thats a good thing. IPC is terribly, hopefully AMD has a fix for it as I refuse to believe they intended IPC to be so low.
If he told you any different it may have cost him his job. I cant blame him really for anything he said in public with regard to BD.Sorry, but JFAMD lost a lot of credibility with me after what he was saying leading up to the BD launch.
If he told you any different it may have cost him his job. I cant blame him really for anything he said in public with regard to BD.
Sorry, but JFAMD lost a lot of credibility with me after what he was saying leading up to the BD launch.
My question would be:
"Why didn't you die-shrink Phenom when you realized BD 1.0 was a disaster?"
Imagine a die-shrunk 1090T BE using much less power, and costing enough less to make that it could be sold profitably for $99.
Interesting, pretty much every question is "when are you planning to release a good version of BD?"
My question would be:
"Why didn't you die-shrink Phenom when you realized BD 1.0 was a disaster?"
Imagine a die-shrunk 1090T BE using much less power, and costing enough less to make that it could be sold profitably for $99.
I see somebody there asked the question that I have. Which is why don't they take a star's base CPU and put two together (similar to Magny Cours). As then they would end up with a CPU that enthusiast would love.
Because the enthusiast market don't make enough money to warrant whatever they love.
Well, when I say "enthusiast" I don't mean just overclockers. I mean just about anybody who wants a high end computer. Be it gamers or whatever.
we've got llano?
Why? BD for desktops is absolutely HORRID, but he works for servers. In all the reviews, the only apps where BD beat i7's were things similar to what you would see in server workloads. Therefore, BD could still be a beast for servers, and thats all he cares about, since thats the division he works in.
Personally I would like 8 stars cores and 8-12 bobcat cores all in one 200 sq mm die. With all those extra cores you can afford to assign different processes their own core. When you think of how many times a cache gets flushed just to get reloaded with the same exact stuff over and over and over and over and over... Well if we had a dedicated core with its own 64K L1 cache, then we'd see massive speed increases, especially when multitasking. I could write my own profile to configure my system the way I want it.
On my PC, the System process has 74 threads running right now. Most of those could be placed on a bobcat core. The explorer process has 16 threads. I have 6 svchosts running, with a combined total of over 100 threads. That's over 200 threads right there. I have 400 total threads, and thats not even that many really. Each time one of those threads switches, there is a big long cycle of caching and memory access. In many if not most cases, that delay is actually longer than the actual processing time. If we could eliminate that switching ... Oh if only I had a 48 core system to play with.
Sorry, but JFAMD lost a lot of credibility with me after what he was saying leading up to the BD launch.