Bulldozer's gonna be on 'da cheapz!

StrangleHold said:
Well before Intel was making a monolithic quad core and was slapping two duals on a die. They poked fun at AMD for doing it. Now they would have to eat crow if they did, lol They probably have boxes full of them and dont know what to do ith them now.

But both companies in the past have done it with the dual core with a bad core and selling them as single cores.
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I cannot stand the processing power of an Intel single-core laptop I own presently. I don't like single-core laptops and desktops anymore. They annoy me with the lack of processing power they have. Hopefully a single-core AMD Zambezi generation processor will have more processing power than an old Athlon 6000+ Dual-Core.

The Intel Core i3 2100 Sandybridge Dual-Core has about twice the processing power as an old Athlon 64-bit 6000+ Processor. The Athlon 6000+ is still not a bad processor even though it was released about May 23, 2006.
 
I dont think that there will be a single core zambezi laptop line. Yet again, they are using dual core module. That means that the lowest core count (1 module) is 2.
 
Apparently, they're working on a 12 CORE server processor. now THAT is multitasking. Too bad I already built my 2500K haha
 
The number of cores are just gonna go up and up. An octocore will future proof you for years and years for gaming. They're barely utilizing quadcores now, with all the xbox ports that come out.
 
I agree. There is a reason that six and eight-core processors are generally only used on servers. A quad-core processor is more than the average user needs presently. I am really interested in the Zambezi dual and quad-core processors over the other processors AMD is coming out with.
 
2048Megabytes said:
I agree. There is a reason that six and eight-core processors are generally only used on servers. A quad-core processor is more than the average user needs presently. I am really interested in the Zambezi dual and quad-core processors over the other processors AMD is coming out with.
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I am not interested in the duals,but the quads and hex-cores :D
Since I already have a quad so it will be a downgrade for me. :D
Is 7th June the release date?? or just a rumour.


@stranglehold thanks for the info on the core modules :good:
 
linkin said:
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:D

I wonder why we haven't seen any ES chips yet. But from this slide, it is certain that AMD will unveil and release (might be a paper launch) Zambezi/BD at E3. There were rumours going around that BD would be delayed until Q3, but apparently they are not true:

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/5/26/amd-officially-denies-bulldozer-delay2c-but.aspx
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Wow, Radeon 6000 on a die. There's something that'll catch some attention.
 
StrangleHold said:
Yeah they are going to release a 16 core Bulldozer. Heard they will have a 20 core next year.
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What is the largest core processor that is out presently?

I did not think that 16 cores would be out this soon. I can only imagine the multi-tasking capability of a server with two 12-core processors.

Edit: CPUbenchmark.net rates the 12-Core Opteron 6168 Processor at 23,712. The Phenom II 970 Quad-Core scores a 4,432.
 
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Rapport Kilocore KC256, a 257-core microcontroller with a PowerPC core and 256 8-bit "processing elements".
^that is the largest core count that I could find.
 
hell, my quad core is plenty for what I do. I had 14 things open on the taskbar, and Google Chrome had 12 tabs open, and there was no issues whatsoever. 12 cores would be overkill
 
Perkomate said:
hell, my quad core is plenty for what I do. I had 14 things open on the taskbar, and Google Chrome had 12 tabs open, and there was no issues whatsoever. 12 cores would be overkill
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That is a pretty lenient test for a sandy bridge.:P
 
hey, it's probably all I'm going to use it for. And they weren't all just Windows Explorer as well, there was iTunes and sh1t.
 
2048Megabytes said:
What is the largest core processor that is out presently?

I did not think that 16 cores would be out this soon. I can only imagine the multi-tasking capability of a server with two 12-core processors.

Edit: CPUbenchmark.net rates the 12-Core Opteron 6168 Processor at 23,712. The Phenom II 970 Quad-Core scores a 4,432.
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^Just a note, that's a benchmark for a quad processor 6168 system. That's four 12-Core Opterons in one server. That bench is technically accounting for 48 cores. :D

....which makes it all the more intimidating.... :P
 
Wish AMD would get on with it. Its starting to feel like waiting for Duke Nukem. Damn thing better be fast and overclock good, or I will talk bad about AMD till hell freezes over.
 
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