Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
Server Bulldozer is to desktop bulldozer what server MC is to Phenom II.

Personally, i believe Bulldozer will be much more capable than these numbers suggest. 4 ALUs, loads/stores per clock, shared FPU, 32nm, and totally new core probably capable of much higher performance/watt suggest that bulldozer will be very very good.


So I'm hoping I'm wrong here. Since I am already planning to throw my AM2+ system away and buy an AM3+ system next year.
Shanghai's desktop equivalent was Phenom II (Agena). Now Istanbul was the 6-core Server processor that AMD came out with later on and its desktop equivalent(re-engineered) is Thuban. Magny Cours is a different core and was not worked into desktop platforms.

So... what it means is, improvements from the core modifications/ improvements in MC have not really been witnessed in desktop arena, as the desktop chippery is still based on older Shanghai and Istanbul equivalents. From that you could deduce that desktop chips should ideally see a really nice boost. Personally, i'd not be expecting anything less than 20-25 odd percent in single threaded apps, given increased cache and new instruction sets and well a hell of a lot more in multi-threaded scenario.