AMD cuts to the core with 'Bulldozer' Opterons

[Hans de Vries]

I have made exactly one comment on an Intel thread, about Beckton. I said "looks hot."

I haven't seen anything yet in the discussions about the faith of Intel's
Boxboro top server platform, currently host to Beckton and waiting to
receive the 10 core Westmere-EX (Eagleton) in Q3-2011 and the next
Itanium (the 32nm Poulson) in 2012.

The bits and pieces now public and the inherent latency increase
and bandwidth reduction from the Millbrook memory buffer-on-board
architecture (1.066 GHz) seems to suggest that Interlagos will be
15% faster in Integer and 50% to 60% faster in FP applications as a
10 core 2.66 GHz Eagleton with 165W (cpu) +35W (buf) = 200W TDP.
(even without using any AVX)

With both having a 32nm process and about the same die size.

I wonder what they can (and will) do to please Oracle and IBM in terms
of performance or that they'll try to convert to Patsburg / SandyBridge EX
as fast as they can.



Regards, Hans