Quote Originally Posted by XRL8 View Post
Well, obr on his blog says he has two fresh samples, hes gonna test them with three new boards with 1866 ram.Thats one.
Second info from him is that they perform clock for clock near identically PHII, with two more cores a bit higher IPC and new instructions.
It's not hard to see that Bulldozer is no K10. It'd be nuts to think there aren't some decent measurable IPC gains.
So no, I don't believe OBR.
Or at the very least, if OBR does somehow have ES chips, they're not performing like retail chips are supposed to.