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    Quote Originally Posted by ajaidev View Post
    5570 offers 28.8 GB/s and has 400SP's. While it is not as powerful as the 5670 "Other stuff has also been taken out" its not a performance disaster due to low bandwidth. Also the 5570 works on 650mhz core and 1.8Ghz memory.

    http://www.techspot.com/review/245-a...570/page4.html



    Yep but that was expected and has not changed ever since it was known that llano is based on K10.5 aka stars cpu.
    Uh yeah forgot about the 5570...

    Well it looses 30% on no aa and 40% on 4xAA, so yes thats quite some perforamnce that they give away... they easily could have gone with 320sps (like the 4670) and nearly would have got the same performance...

    I still dont get it why they go with 480SPs...
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    Quote Originally Posted by 570091D View Post
    this is what shocked the crap outta me

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    In case anyone still wonders, this is not with the integrated graphics obviously.

    I'd like to see a comparison of actual visuals, seeing as Intel's graphics didn't only used to give low framerates, but looked a lot uglier than nVidia and AMD's offerings too. And, will it support OpenCL? Or would Intel stifle this, just to try and bar AMD's GPU acceleration attempts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
    So the improvement wasn't because of turbo? Then why there is no such improvement in multi threaded workloads?
    Did you read the article?

    The SB sample did not have Turbo enabled.
    The comparison parts (i7 880, for example) did.

    The improvement was IN SPITE OF Sandy having no turbo, against a turboing Westmere. And it was in spite of this SB sku having 1.5MB of L3 per core instead of 2MB.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ~CS~ View Post
    Bobcat is a core design,not a CPU.There is no bobcat cpu,whether or not Liano or Ontario will be using bobcat cores or k10's is not very clear,maybe I missed it.

    Sorry for the off topic post.
    Bobcat IS the new low power CPU core from AMD-the new uarchitecture not related to K8,10h or Bulldozer(to which it resembles somewhat). This will be the x86 core inside the Ontario APU(Accelerated Proc. Unit). Ontario will have a low power GPU,the 80Stream Processors DX11 Evergreen-class part. Ontario is low power netbooks,mainstream notebook territory. Bobcat CPU core will be similar in speed with Propus/Regor or what you call Athlon II X2/X4 today.

    Llano is a mainstream desktop/notebok APU.It will have and improved "old" CPU core,based on Shanghai,but done on 32nm with some core level improvements(this means it should be somewhat faster at the same clock);there will be 2x more L2 per core but no L3. The GPu inside is speculated to have 480SP(and a lower count one),a Radeon 5650/5670 class.There will be a brand new integrated memory controller designed for this hybrid part,to ensure both CPU and GPU have a good balanced use of memory resources. Llano will be a 2 core /4 core part with probably 2 GPU models inside(one with higher and one with lower spec. GPU).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
    So the improvement wasn't because of turbo? Then why there is no such improvement in multi threaded workloads?
    Well you get the IPC improvement per core + they said the gona improve HT, and by the looks they did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
    Uh yeah forgot about the 5570...

    Well it looses 30% on no aa and 40% on 4xAA, so yes thats quite some perforamnce that they give away... they easyl could have gone with 320sps (like the 4670) and nearly would have got the same performance...

    I still dont get it why they go with 480SPs...
    Well the 5570 has 16 TAUs and 8 ROPs that can be also the reason's for its bad performance. There can be two reasons for keeping 480SP's one is for the added raw computing power needed for GPU processing like ATI stream and the second can be the presence of two GPU's one low power 2D/3D and one high power "80SP and 400SP"
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    Quote Originally Posted by terrace215 View Post
    Did you read the article?
    No, because I am not interested in SB since I don't have enough money to get one. I just did a quick glance at the graphs.

    The SB sample did not have Turbo enabled.
    The comparison parts (i7 880, for example) did.

    The improvement was IN SPITE OF Sandy having no turbo, against a turboing Westmere. And it was in spite of this SB sku having 1.5MB of L3 per core instead of 2MB.
    Great. So one can't compare the CPUs by their base clockspeeds anymore since they twiddle dynamically? It gets cryptic.

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    Nice preview, but I'm tired of this Anand/Intel politic BS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ajaidev View Post
    Well the 5570 has 16 TAUs and 8 ROPs that can be also the reason's for its bad performance. There can be two reasons for keeping 480SP's one is for the added raw computing power needed for GPU processing like ATI stream and the second can be the presence of two GPU's one low power 2D/3D and one high power "80SP and 400SP"

    Both options are meh... Stream is nice to have, but still a few years off getting any real attention, maybe next cpu generation and even 320 would offer more then enough computing power.
    The scond option is also not really plausible, why wast die space for 2 gpus when you can powergate the SPs, if the rework the gpu a bit, im sure it would be possible in a year or so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by G.Foyle View Post
    Nice preview, but I'm tired of this Anand/Intel politic BS.
    I'd love to be tired of Anand/AMD politic BS, oh wait, AMD doesn't share anything with anyone. Their heads are stuck too far up their collective s!
    As quoted by LowRun......"So, we are one week past AMD's worst case scenario for BD's availability but they don't feel like communicating about the delay, I suppose AMD must be removed from the reliable sources list for AMD's products launch dates"

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    wow, nice results, and thats without turbo

    gamers will love that i5 2400

    that coupled with a HD6770 should make an awesome gaming rig for 2011...

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    Quote Originally Posted by freeloader View Post
    I'd love to be tired of Anand/AMD politic BS, oh wait, AMD doesn't share anything with anyone. Their heads are stuck too far up their collective s!
    What do you want them to share?
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    Quote Originally Posted by freeloader View Post
    I'd love to be tired of Anand/AMD politic BS, oh wait, AMD doesn't share anything with anyone. Their heads are stuck too far up their collective s!
    What exactly do you want AMD to share with Anand at this point? Other than Bobcat, I doubt anything is in anywhere near good enough shape to let it be "reviewed" this way at this time. (EDIT: lol, gazer)

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    It appears from the charts in the review that Intel made improvements to boost multi-threaded workloads apart from HT. The boost from the 760 indicates that well-threaded code should get a nice boost in performance, while enabling HT seems to have a lesser effect based on workload. Seems they are trying to address some of the shortcomings with the previous implementation of SMT, such that well-threaded code will still get a boost in performance and (likely) take less of a hit with HT enabled...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
    Great. So one can't compare the CPUs by their base clockspeeds anymore since they twiddle dynamically? It gets cryptic.
    You can make a fairly good correction if you know the turbo bins, or Anand could have rerun some of the earlier results having disabled the turbo on the older parts. OTOH, IPC is a tad esoteric to most people, who just want to know how the part is going to perform, and, well, the parts will run with turbo.

    So, instead, you could adjust the SB results up. Say you're looking at a single threaded test. It will turbo 22.5% higher. (3.1 --> 3.8) So pick a scaling factor... say 85% for single-thread cinebench, and add (.85 * 22.5% = ) ~19% to the SB score.

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    Quote Originally Posted by terrace215 View Post
    What exactly do you want AMD to share with Anand at this point? Other than Bobcat, I doubt anything is in anywhere near good enough shape to let it be "reviewed" this way at this time. (EDIT: lol, gazer)
    Is it too hard for them to share one benchmark running anything? Simply stating that it's in a BETA stage and they wouldn't even have to reveal the clock speed. Simply state it's between 1ghz and 2ghz or 2ghz and 3ghz, etc...It's funny how Intel can share stuff within 6 months of a launch, but AMD can not. I'm not going to rant about it, it just seems stupid on AMD's part to crap on it's customers. That's my opinion, nothing more.
    As quoted by LowRun......"So, we are one week past AMD's worst case scenario for BD's availability but they don't feel like communicating about the delay, I suppose AMD must be removed from the reliable sources list for AMD's products launch dates"

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    Quote Originally Posted by terrace215 View Post
    You can make a fairly good correction if you know the turbo bins, or Anand could have rerun some of the earlier results having disabled the turbo on the older parts. OTOH, IPC is a tad esoteric to most people, who just want to know how the part is going to perform, and, well, the parts will run with turbo.

    So, instead, you could adjust the SB results up. Say you're looking at a single threaded test. It will turbo 22.5% higher. (3.1 --> 3.8) So pick a scaling factor... say 85% for single-thread cinebench, and add (.85 * 22.5% = ) ~19% to the SB score.
    Well at least we know now francois wasn't exaggerating when he said we get a C2 like performancejump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by freeloader View Post
    Is it too hard for them to share one benchmark running anything? Simply stating that it's in a BETA stage and they wouldn't even have to reveal the clock speed. Simply state it's between 1ghz and 2ghz or 2ghz and 3ghz, etc...It's funny how Intel can share stuff within 6 months of a launch, but AMD can not. I'm not going to rant about it, it just seems stupid on AMD's part to crap on it's customers. That's my opinion, nothing more.
    AMD is not within 6 months of a launch... maybe not even 12 months

    Sorry, that was too easy.

    Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
    Well at least we know now francois wasn't exaggerating when he said we get a C2 like performancejump.
    This is Intel Haifa we're talking about, they always Conroe the market with each of their new uarchs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by STaRGaZeR View Post
    AMD is not within 6 months of a launch... maybe not even 12 months

    Sorry, that was too easy.
    Says who? They apparently have working silicon now. More than likely under one year.
    As quoted by LowRun......"So, we are one week past AMD's worst case scenario for BD's availability but they don't feel like communicating about the delay, I suppose AMD must be removed from the reliable sources list for AMD's products launch dates"

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    those results get even prettier if we consider SB had its turbo mode off



    i7 880 could be running at 3.6ghz or even 3.73ghz at this test, as it beat the core i7 980X (turbo @ 3.46ghz/3.6ghz)...

    i5 2400 was 3.1ghz all the time...

    now do the math...

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    lol, they were trying to compare it to 980x in some benchmarks..

    game performance was disappointing so far, hope they iron out that on retail..
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    Quote Originally Posted by freeloader View Post
    Says who? They apparently have working silicon now. More than likely under one year.
    You think AMD is going from first silicon on a BRAND NEW microarchitecture on a brand new process to launched parts in *under* 1 year? They would have to be extraordinarily lucky.

    And what makes you think they want to give A0 silicon to a review site??!! These things typically run at low clocks, major functionality can be bugged, etc., etc. It would be a PR disaster.
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    Quote Originally Posted by -Sweeper_ View Post
    those results get even prettier if we consider SB had its turbo mode off

    i7 880 could be running at 3.6ghz or even 3.73ghz at this test, as it beat the core i7 980X (turbo @ 3.46ghz/3.6ghz)...

    i5 2400 was 3.1ghz all the time...

    now do the math...
    Using 85% clock scaling, that's about 27% better IPC on Cinebench R10. Think what the AVX version will do.

    Speaking of which, given that the IPC gain *on average* looks to be in the ballpark of 20% once you correct the results for the non-turboing of the sample vs the competition....

    where is saaya?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Loque View Post
    lol, they were trying to compare it to 980x in some benchmarks..

    game performance was disappointing so far, hope they iron out that on retail..
    You didn't note the lack of turbo mode and clock difference?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loque View Post
    lol, they were trying to compare it to 980x in some benchmarks..

    game performance was disappointing so far, hope they iron out that on retail..
    Gaming performance is limited by gpus... and it doesn't get better.

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