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Your view on AMD's Bulldozer
kitamesume:
^ performs like it actually XD
kureshii:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20111012151052_AMD_Aims_to_Improve_Bulldozer_Performance_per_Watt_by_Up_to_50_by_2014.html
And we worry more and more about their future ... Remember what we saw from Bulldozer at its best?
They're currently about 50% behind i7-2600K in PPW for heavily multithreaded applications. a 50% improvement in that might help Bulldozer catch up with it ... in 2014. Are we going to see AMD in their Pentium 4 doldrums?
kitamesume:
we already know bulldozer is failing in PPW <,< and it wont be even viable in the server segment, yea sure it "could" perform great as servers but the PPW would be devastating, whats costy about running servers isnt the initial costs alone but the operation costs as well >.<
Lupin:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on October 13, 2011, 11:49:28 AM ---and it wont be even viable in the server segment, yea sure it "could" perform great as servers but the PPW would be devastating, whats costy about running servers isnt the initial costs alone but the operation costs as well >.<
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Citation needed. The server SKUs have configurable TDP which OEMs can use to reduce power consumption. AMD is banking on more cores/price to sell these. Workloads are vastly different as well so mediocre desktop performance doesn't immediately translate to mediocre server performance.
TMRNetShark:
Maybe it uses more power because it uses more cores! /sarcasm
They are releasing a water cooled bundle of the FX chip in Japan. I wonder how people will like the CPU over an Intel chip. As of right now, only AM3+ boards will fit it, I guess, right?
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