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Your view on AMD's Bulldozer
iindigo:
If you think the Sandy-E CPUs make AMD look silly, just wait a few more months until Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs are available... they're supposed to be a full 25% improvement of Sandy Bridge while consuming the same or less power.
krumm:
Most people can care less about Sandy-E CPUs. Just look at the price. These kind of CPUs are not game changers until they use the new tech in low cost CPUs. And from my understanding this CPU has no real new features.
kureshii:
--- Quote from: iindigo on November 14, 2011, 03:14:50 PM ---If you think the Sandy-E CPUs make AMD look silly, just wait a few more months until Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs are available... they're supposed to be a full 25% improvement of Sandy Bridge while consuming the same or less power.
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Actually no, the projected performance improvement is more in the range of 6–8% (putting together guesstimates from various sources), from latency improvements in the transition to 22nm as well as some architectural improvements that didn’t make it into Sandy Bridge in time. There’ll be 20% more transistors but die size will be smaller.
But lower TDP is true; there are rumours circulating that IB TDP will be in the 75W range. Awaiting confirmation from Intel. The quad-core mobile parts are confirmed to have 35W TDP though, down from 45W in Sandy Bridge mobile (and 55W in the Extreme offerings).
ios:
well from wikipedia it stated that Ivy Bridge will have 20% more CPU performance than Sandy Bridge and 60% more GPU performance than Sandy Bridge -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Ivy_Bridge_2
the 60% GPU performance alone will make me wait for this than AMD Trinity
and also the problem is the sockets, Intel Ivy Bridge will be compatible with existing Sandy Bridge socket (LGA 155)
so its more upgrade friendly than AMD which will replace FM1 with FMx socket next year
imo Intel is doing more better than AMD at the moment
kureshii:
--- Quote from: ios on November 14, 2011, 09:34:22 PM ---well from wikipedia it stated that Ivy Bridge will have 20% more CPU performance than Sandy Bridge and 60% more GPU performance than Sandy Bridge -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Ivy_Bridge_2
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Time to do some thinking then. The quoted source for Wikipedia is a VR-Zone article dated Feb 2011. The Anandtech article I linked is from Sep 2011, and if you read the article it even explains where its conservative estimate of “up to 10% improvement” comes from. Don’t blindly take Wikipedia at face value.
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