Quote Originally Posted by Andypro1 View Post
Hi,

I would just like to chime in here and speak to some of the comparisons I have been seeing with regards to Sandy Bridge's IGP performance and Bulldozer's 480sp IGP. The Sandy Bridge sample shown by Anandtech is the low-end version with only 1 "core" or 6 Intel-type-SP-unit-things. The problem I have trying to speculatively compare that against Bulldozer's 480sp wonderkind is that you're comparing a low-end mainstream chip that will be out in late Q4 2010 to a high-end chip that won't be out until sometime in 2012 (in my opinion - I know there's no hard date for Bulldozer). There is enough trouble trying to compare SPs from differing architectures - we need to keep the market segment and timeframe at least somewhat in line if we're to make any reasonable comparison. If you were to guess how many SPs will be on a high-end Ivy Bridge when Bulldozer arrives, I would presume you wouldn't guess "6."
First of all there will not be a Bulldozer CPU with an integrated GPU in 2011.There will be a low power Bobcat core with low end EvergreenDX11 GPU(80SP,the level of what AT tested in SB) and a mainstream desktop/notebook chip with improved 10h/Phenom II cores (Quad/Dual) done on 32nm and with a 480SP Evergreen DX11 GPU. The last one is called Llano and this will go against SB with its "better" version GPU in mainstream desktop segment. Bulldozer is high performance Quad/Octal with no GPU on chip,at least not in 2011.In 2012 there will probably show up a whole line-up with on board Evergreen GPUs.