First Bulldozer Benchmarks

[hurleybird]

AMDzone is not an official site, however I'm pretty sure JF-AMD is in on it. There's absolutely no way that someone can get fired because someone else mentions them in an April Fools joke. Either JF-AMD is completely overreacting, or he is putting on a show for our benefit

The fact that Dresdenboy posted this just after the article went up and he himself is mentioned in the article makes it seem like this is a bit of a coordinated effort. Would be awesome if this turned out to be a 'reverse april fools' where they try to make people think real info is actually fake, but that's a long shot.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Nice date & time, Thursday, 01 April 2010 01:01 <-- lol idd

[zir_blazer]

amdzone is an official amd site right??? if so this cant be an april fool's joke


btw welcome back amd aka the pentium killers

AMDZone is not an official AMD official site, is more an AMD Fanboy site. AMD Forums, is however official as it is hosted by AMD themselves, but there is rarely an AMD employee wandering there.
Seems that there is a real reason about JF-AMD becoming so paranoic about this April's Fools joke, beginning with the fact that its name is involved in an article with tons of supposed data leaks (The architectural overview I recall having read it on Anandtech so is not new, but the fake benchmarks are. I do however actually believe that he got a Bulldozer or is soon to receive one, because as I stated, Opterons always are first to receive major architectural upgrades).
I suppose than convincing your superior that you are not related to a leak when you are in touch with the enthusiast community isn't easy. I would just silently leave this topic in the cold to ensure that no one loses his sanity here.

[kl0012]

AMDZone is not an official AMD official site, is more an AMD Fanboy site.

Yeh... the review also looks like a fanboy's wet dreams. I wonder if Theo Valich (aka Barselona-break-30K-in-3DMark06) was participated in this.
Any way, i guess, from now and on we will hear a lot about this "super-puper-intel-smasher" from some ppl on a different forums who know nothing about "first April" meanings.

[R101]

Well, only thing we haven't seen today is "nVidia - we were just kidding, Fermi is 512shaders/900 MHz/200W" thread..

But I fear it will come.

[Sn0wm@n]

allright thanks for the clarification guys .....


@JF-AMD: since you are mad about the leaks does it means that they are real ????

[zalbard]

[Hornet331]

Turbo on Steroids... copymuch...

[Chrono Detector]

I wish these were real alright, but I have a feeling that Bulldozer won't disappoint.

[madcho]

nice fake i believed more than a minute !!!

nice 1st april fake !!!

[Mechromancer]

AMD would fire JF-AMD for this? That is ridiculous. They have to be able to take an April Fools joke. Or maybe JF is April fooling us (didn't sound like it though).

[madcho]

1st April mech, maybe it's a fake from JF too.

And the work of JF-AMD is to control information about their products on the web. Even it's a fake, stupid rumours about +40% of performance is not good for AMD. Evrybody remember the fiasco of Agena.

Bulldozer is new, bulldozer is shelduled for 2011 and said for Q1 if we are lucky and in 32nm.

No samples in 32nm are available, this is clearly impossible. At best some ES with lower cache in 45nm. There is 6 months for GF to ramp up a new process. If Q1 is start of BD modules on market, at best ES will be in nature about november/december 2010. And the first ship will not ready before october, and you can be sure of that, AMD will keep huge secret on the ship.

I think this kind of rumour is not good for JF-AMD, even for us it's fun.

Don't worry JF, most of us support your work.

[Hornet331]

1st April mech, maybe it's a fake from JF too.

And the work of JF-AMD is to control information about their products on the web. Even it's a fake, stupid rumours about +40% of performance is not good for AMD. Evrybody remember the fiasco of Agena.

lol indeed... if only that would have been a april joke...

[informal]

First of all,this is not real.
Second,BD is really fast .

[N19h7m4r3]

Haha that Interlagos score is unreal!

Wouldn't it be funny if they release the CPU and that is actually it's real score

[Lokinhow]

3DMark vantage and gaming results shows it's a big fake

[STaRGaZeR]

Another lolz

This is not true.

Admin, please kill this thread IMMEDIATELY.

I bet the shareholders won't be very happy after the "GOTCHA!", huh?

[terrace215]

The REAL April Fools joke is that Bulldozer won't even be available on April 1, 2011!

And JF-AMD will probably lose his job over the *actual* BD benchmarks.

[Piotrsama]

-First an obvious aprils fool article.
-Then JF saying "I could lose my job over this!!! TAKE IT DOWN!!!" just to make it more credible.
-And now the article taken down.

Gotta be real

[SocketMan]

Good Game

However there is a little truth in every joke

[flippin_waffles]

LOL Epic. Whatever the intent and outcome, John losing his job would be the worst possible result.

[JF-AMD]

This was incredibly uncool.

I have had to spend a lot of my day cleaning this mess up with sales and customers. It is not inconceivable that I will have to spend months replying to emails (I still get questions about incorrect information around the Istanbul launch which was almost a year ago.

Thos images are floating around on the web and they will resurface. If my CEO, or my VP saw this before me, they could have assume that I was swomehow in on it. That could have been a career limiting move. How many times am I going to have to respond to a customer or sales person who has an email with some fake slide or benchmark chart? How many times have you been forwarded an image in email? This is going to last long part april first, and the furth you get from april first, the harder you have to fight it because the aura of april fools day is gone. Just the fact that some people actually speculated that I was somehow in on this means a simple explanation will not suffice. That just means more work for me personally.

If someone had not used our actual product code name and not used my name this would have been real funny. To use both not only impacts the product going forward, but it also impacts me personally. This eats up the time of the company for me to have to fix this mess, and with as much time as I spend online in forums after hours, this also cuts into my time personally.

[Toolius]

This was pretty funny alright but using someone's name without permission was not really cool..
I just hope everything works out for you JF-AMD.. im sure no one would want you to loose your job.
Glad to know that you are on top this mess..
Kind Regards

[instred]

I hope it passes quickly for you, so you can keep posting for us. John, you have been great answering questions.
I also think the joke was really stupid.

[savantu]

This was incredibly uncool.

I have had to spend a lot of my day cleaning this mess up with sales and customers. It is not inconceivable that I will have to spend months replying to emails (I still get questions about incorrect information around the Istanbul launch which was almost a year ago.

Thos images are floating around on the web and they will resurface. If my CEO, or my VP saw this before me, they could have assume that I was swomehow in on it. That could have been a career limiting move. How many times am I going to have to respond to a customer or sales person who has an email with some fake slide or benchmark chart? How many times have you been forwarded an image in email? This is going to last long part april first, and the furth you get from april first, the harder you have to fight it because the aura of april fools day is gone. Just the fact that some people actually speculated that I was somehow in on this means a simple explanation will not suffice. That just means more work for me personally.

If someone had not used our actual product code name and not used my name this would have been real funny. To use both not only impacts the product going forward, but it also impacts me personally. This eats up the time of the company for me to have to fix this mess, and with as much time as I spend online in forums after hours, this also cuts into my time personally.

Well, when you play with fire you should know you might get burned; what goes around comes around.