Bulldozer prices leaked

[formulav8]

Every passing day BD isn't out, it makes it more and more difficult to wait for those looking to upgrade.

Yeps

 

[Khato]

Quick sync is not actually usable for video encoding. The quality of the encode is an absurd joke compared to the current state of the art (x264). x264 on the ultra fast preset, which is still leagues above the quality of QS, gets about 70% of the speed of QS. The anandtech test on QS was a total joke, because the software encoder they compared to was a total joke that nobody sane would ever use.

... Of course, that doesn't change the fact that Intel CPU's are the best for encoding video. Just stay away from quick sync.

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/828...cuda-amd-stream-intel-mediasdk-x264-test.html

Interesting comparison, especially since it has some of the quick sync based transcoding result in better quality than the x264 2p ultrafast as far as the SSIM metric that they're using is concerned. Now sure, the higher quality x264 presets do result in better results, but only with corresponding speed decreases.

Really, quick sync is awesome for what it's designed to do, which is to transcode to lower resolutions quickly with minimal quality loss. Sure it won't look quite as good as a high quality x264 preset, but since the primary reason to transcode is to reduce resolution, does it really have to?

 

[Ben90]

From this and the before graph, the q9550 would do better than any of these processors. This is why you cannot pick a single benchmarks to try to prove points.

 

[Koolvin]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...ering_Sample_of_AMD_FX_Zambezi_to_4_6GHz.html

Not sure if anyone has posted this, but what are your thoughts on its legitimacy?

 

[darkswordsman17]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...ering_Sample_of_AMD_FX_Zambezi_to_4_6GHz.html

Not sure if anyone has posted this, but what are your thoughts on its legitimacy?

Its the same BS that's been posted (directly to the OBR guy's blog) several times. Its feasible that he got his hands on an ES processor and those boards, but everything else is highly suspect.

Specifically here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2174569

 

[tweakboy]

That is a amazing nice price for the BD 8 core ... wow

Soo how does that 8core vs a Sandy 2600k

Who will win that. Is the champion CPU a Intel or AMD.. !

 

[Diogenes2]

 

[drizek]

That is a amazing nice price for the BD 8 core ... wow

Soo how does that 8core vs a Sandy 2600k

Who will win that. Is the champion CPU a Intel or AMD.. !

Personally, I'm betting on Transmeta.

 

[sangyup81]

Personally, I'm betting on Transmeta.

I would love it if a darkhorse came out of nowhere!