Is there anyone who actually posted correct screenshots of benchmarks 1, 2, or 3 months before K10 launched?
Im guessing you were one of the people saddened that Fudo was incorrect on this a few years back?
This is a perfectly valid necro, and it is actually quite relevant...threads here don't vanish.
K10 is an update of K8.1 and K8.1 is an update of K8 and K8 is an update of K7 ext ext
Bulldozer is a whole new redesign from the ground up.
I dont think this can relate to Bulldozer at all, and after all.. the Quad core K10 was almost a year late because they went native quadcore, giving intel a huge advantage.
Now we have intels 32nm Chip VS AMD's 32nm Chip .. its a little more balanced with the mature 32nm process going on intels side.
I think if AMD knew that Bulldozer would be as big a failure as Barcelona, they would have just packed up and gone home a long time ago.They can't survive another flop of that magnitude again, especially with 22nm still at least two years off. They need to beat SB, compete with IB and hold off IB+1 with BD at 32nm.
It better be really good.
I think if AMD knew that Bulldozer would be as big a failure as Barcelona, they would have just packed up and gone home a long time ago.They can't survive another flop of that magnitude again, especially with 22nm still at least two years off. They need to beat SB, compete with IB and hold off IB+1 with BD at 32nm.
It better be really good.
Honestly?
I think they could survive off Llano and Bobcat if they needed to. Their GPU side is and will be such a huge advantage that it would be feasible for them to keep the company afloat for years on it alone.
The problem with a buyout though is that whoever buys them won't be albe to make x86 CPUs, right? The license is nontransferable.
Their GPU and CPU divisions will already be at odds, as the APU becomes more powerful, it will be eating into the high-volume parts such as the 5770.
Ask Phenom I/II.That's kinda my point though, if they can't beat SB... why do they even bother existing?
this fall supposedly. as big a fan of amd as i am (my last intel was celeron 300a), i think it's going to be hard for me to buy a k10 knowing that 45nm penryn is right around the corner, probably with higher clock than k10. now if amd allows people to have a clear upgrade path from 65nm k10 to 45nm k10 on the same motherboard, and provided that k10 outperforms intel, then i might stick with amd. i dont wanna buy k10+mobo only to have to replace the mobo when 45nm k10 comes out.
Ask Phenom I/II.
I think the big difference between then and now is that AMD has been pretty quiet about BD's performance (they weren't with Barcelona).
AMD was in panic mode and out and out lied about the PHI performance numbers