Dresdenboys' blog: AMD Bulldozer - Patent based research

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To put things into prospective i made these. The BD modules are suppose to perform ~80-90% of a dual core cpu lets say a deneb based , so a dual module BD will come close to a deneb quad core and a quad module based BD will come close to a 8 core based deneb. Now as things stand a x5550 ~ x4 2435, this means AMD has to give 6 core to achieve what intel does with 4. In BD terms, you will need a three bulldozer modules to come close to a Nehalem based cpu but what we have seen with westmere "hex core" is great and i expect sandy bridge to only improve in performance. So much so that i expect only a four module bulldozer maybe able to compete with a four core sandy bridge.





If Intel releases a 6 core based sandy bridge, AMD will have to release a 6 module based cpu IMO.