BlueBlazer
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So, how much improvement do you think B2G stepping will bring to the table (compared to the leaked poor results which are "slower than Bobcat/Llano")? :hmm:From Anand's twitter account:
So yeah,all those results showing BD ES slower than Bobcat/Llano are useless.
Higher IPC on the newer revision? I don't think so as that would require silicon re-spin, more changes to the die and more debugging(!). The new stepping would be addressing bug fixes which affects performance (as mentioned earlier).Yea, I don't understand how a revision with higher IPC is coming down the pipeline if AMD is already shipping (more expensive, lower clocked) Opterons?
If you noticed the first shipments are for supercomputer vendor Cray. Also if you had followed this thread closely, then you should notice discussions about Bulldozer cache issues and patching (workaround) in Linux. It also happens that Cray runs (its own customized) Linux operating system.Are they just expecting server customers to accept lower performance? Are there actually two dies for BD (instead of just the one?).
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