AMD Zambezi news, info, fans !

[Smartidiot89]

WHY DON'T WE RENAME THE THREAD TO "OBR news, info, fans !"

It's to me a ing wonder there still are people who are quoting him and believe in every ing word he says. We know it and, and we already knew before that he's a stupid clown-attention-whore and haven't XtremeSystems admins already forbidden any discussions about him since he was banned from here for a reason aswell...?

Not sure about you guys, I come to this section to read about AMD not some fake misinformation by someone with split personality disorders who is also banned from here. I already reported this thread and hopefully it will be cleaned up soon.

Damn I feel much better getting this of my chest

[undone]

WHY DON'T WE RENAME THE THREAD TO "OBR news, info, fans !"

You make me rofl.

[Mats]

Smartidiot89: I said the same just the other day, just to see even more O-posts coming in.:rolleyes

Admin: Please put obr on the same list as , and mother, pleeeease!

[maltrabob]

@Smartidiot89, Mats: Relax guys, this is all just a part of a ritual before new and anticipated piece of hrdware is released. No need to insist on cleaning up, I think.

[stangracin3]

Smartidiot89: I said the same just the other day, just to see even more O-posts coming in.:rolleyes

Admin: Please put obr on the same list as , and mother, pleeeease!

great idea i can think of anotherthat should be added also

[Mats]

Of course, it will affect other words, like cobra, but that's easily avoided by using " obr" inistead.

[Manicdan]

Of course, it will affect other words, like cobra, but that's easily avoided by using " obr" inistead.

i googled that and tried to find more words we break
im pretty sure we can do fine without obrien and orbitz

[BeepBeep2]

WHY DON'T WE RENAME THE THREAD TO "OBR news, info, fans !"

It's to me a ing wonder there still are people who are quoting him and believe in every ing word he says. We know it and, and we already knew before that he's a stupid clown-attention-whore and haven't XtremeSystems admins already forbidden any discussions about him since he was banned from here for a reason aswell...?

Not sure about you guys, I come to this section to read about AMD not some fake misinformation by someone with split personality disorders who is also banned from here. I already reported this thread and hopefully it will be cleaned up soon.

Damn I feel much better getting this of my chest

What the duck are you talking about? We've been mocking him for several pages...and the discussion has been useful as well.

[Mats]

We've been mocking him for several pages...

I'd prefer we just ignored him. Keep the mocking in granfaloons . .

[SEA]

...
The mean, crazy drunk russian in favor of intel
The psycho, crap spewing psychopath in favor of intel
...

Why russian? He is probably slovak...
or because of drunk? Russians are not top drunkards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ol_consumption

[k0ST]

Some more news that don't really says anything new, but will contribute to the hype:
AMD Bulldozer to ship within the next week or so

[Dumo]

Why russian? He is probably slovak...
or because of drunk? Russians are not top drunkards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ol_consumption

I think stereotyping peep is totally OOS for this thread

Lets go back to the subject...AMD Bulldozer!

[Smartidiot89]

What the duck are you talking about? We've been mocking him for several pages...and the discussion has been useful as well.

What the duck are you talking about "useful"? As useful as the turds my dog makes when we take a walk which I have to pick up and throw in the garbage where it belongs.

What is so useful that I might've missed, have the braintrust of XS come to the conclusion that all he says is either BS or fake? Good going I think most people knew this before he started faking stuff about BD.

Some more news that don't really says anything new, but will contribute to the hype:
AMD Bulldozer to ship within the next week or so

I think stereotyping peep is totally OOS for this thread

Lets go back to the subject...AMD Bulldozer!

Two very good posts, especielly the one from Dumo couldn't agree more with you

[BeepBeep2]

Hi Guys,

About OBR, I can tell you there is some genuine BD entries in the CPUZ Validator Database right now and none of them looks like the one he published. Especially regarding the construction of the PSN.

A good proof for what he says should be to validate a dump, even unpublished. If he let me check this dump, I will be able to confirm or not.

Mmmmm. I'm reviewing CPUs since 10 years and I never saw a huge performance gap between any B0 ES CPU and the final, retail step of the same CPU. Changes in features and OC abilities for sure, but not in raw performance. This said, the validator database contains many BD steps, from the first A0 to the latest one (with final PSN), and none of them looks like the PSN on his screenshots.

I don't know what to think about OBR. This could be 100% fake, but some of the informations he published are true. For example the launch date. At this time, the press NDA disclosure is planned for the 06 Sept while the retail launch is planned for October, between 03 and 15. The exact date is not yet defined, but it's really October. In the opposite, there is some clear fakes in the pictures he released. The values displayed by CPUZ seems wrong and doesn't follow the current BD dumps I have in the database. He could have a different CPU, but that's unlikely. A single submit from him could be a great proof of everything. I can guarantee I will not pass any informations from him to AMD. I was the first to leak K8 results on the Internet, so I know what I'm talking about But there is some more disturbing fake I spotted in his pictures. Like this one (hard to explain, so here is a small picture) :

That's what I call real informations

Here we are again with yet another piece of confusing information. This is the printscreen of a cached document that shortly appeared on his blog on Tuesday, 17th May 2011: www.maltrabob.com/Obr_popel3.jpg. It reads:

"My bad: I was mistaken ... big time

I was expecting that AMD BD was going to be a fiasco, I was mistaken and declare that it is not. After many years of inferior performance the time has come for some revenge ... Intel is going to be surprised I guess! That`s why Intel is likely to plan Core i7-2800K and similar ones ..."

Unfortunalely I wasn`t fast enough to capture the whole article but I managed to read it all. In general, it was saying that BD is not going to disappoint.

Here's my analogy.

OBR is some pissed off dweeb that can't get AMD review samples legit because he can't keep his mouth shut. For some reson he blames his contact in his local area when in reality it's his own damn fault.

Someone is selling him chips but the joke is on him, it could be AMD themselves, but they are sending him some preety rotten samples, either his contact for chips is burning him and laughing all the way to the bank or AMD is doing it just to have a good laugh.

The term having more money than brains applies here.

As far as JF and his comments towards, well......JF is server not desktop. Not only is OBR out of line, he's an idiot in this sense, when JF makes a comment it is based on his knowledge of server side not desktop.

What the duck are you talking about "useful"? As useful as the turds my dog makes when we take a walk which I have to pick up and throw in the garbage where it belongs.

What is so useful that I might've missed, have the braintrust of XS come to the conclusion that all he says is either BS or fake? Good going I think most people knew this before he started faking stuff about BD.


Two very good posts, especielly the one from Dumo couldn't agree more with you

because you asked...

Can we talk about Bulldozer now, instead of SB-E, Ivy and a guy full of crap?

[Evantaur]

Can we talk about Bulldozer now, instead of SB-E, Ivy and a guy full of crap?

god i hope so

[halofanman]

Some more news that don't really says anything new, but will contribute to the hype:
AMD Bulldozer to ship within the next week or so

they spin the news like true intel fanboys

It’s easier to think of a module as a CPU core which has the ability to process two threads concurrently, so we’ll insist on referring to Bulldozer modules as cores.

[chew*]

they spin the news like true intel fanboys

Actually it's not. For whatever reason amd chose to market it as cores.

In reality however BD is more akin to 4 cores / 8 threads as they share resources.

I have said this since the beginning.

There are however other reasons for calling them cores.

Example you can disable HT with intel.

AMD's design to my knowledge however does not allow for disabling a core in a module, I could be wrong however.

[informal]

These ARE cores in Zambezi. It is from hardware and software perspective a true 8 core processor.Each module can retire 8 macroops per cycle(4 per core). Each core has a dedicated FMAC (And an additional FMAC if opportunity arises). The fact that cores share certain parts is because this is a smart thing to do from engineering POV. You save space and improve performance and perf./watt.
In the end,why would consumers even care? If it performs like an 8 core processor for all intents and purposes,why wouldn't people refer to it as to an 8 core processor(even if they don't personally think it is one)?

[Smartidiot89]

because you asked...

Can we talk about Bulldozer now, instead of SB-E, Ivy and a guy full of crap?

Yeah I was 100% right you came to the conclusion he is full of , wow what a constructive discussion hurray

Yeah let's talk about BD and not that douche full of crap, which is what I said before you had to argue against it for some reason.

[freeloader]

Actually it's not. For whatever reason amd chose to market it as cores.

In reality however BD is more akin to 4 cores / 8 threads as they share resources.

I have said this since the beginning.

There are however other reasons for calling them cores.

Example you can disable HT with intel.

AMD's design to my knowledge however does not allow for disabling a core in a module, I could be wrong however.

Unless you count aggressive per core clock gating as "disabling a core"?

[TESKATLIPOKA]

informal

In the end,why would consumers even care? If it performs like an 8 core processor for all intents and purposes,why wouldn't people refer to it as to an 8 core processor(even if they don't personally think it is one)?

If you think about It BD can't perform as a true 8 core thanks to the module sharing penalty.

Each module can retire 8 macroops per cycle(4 per core). Each core has a dedicated FMAC (And an additional FMAC if opportunity arises).

I have a question. Doesn't BD have a 4 issue decoder so how can it retire 8 macro? I am not good with this stuff so I can be wrong any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[chew*]

Unless you count aggressive per core clock gating as "disabling a core"?

Not really, it's still consuming something power wise and you have no control over a specific core in a module.

informal

If you think about It BD can't perform as a true 8 core thanks to the module sharing penalty.

This......which is why bit tech feels about it the way they do.

[informal]

The front end/decoding stage in BD (and K10) takes the x86 instructions,decodes them into RISK-like ops that AMD calls macro ops and dispatches them in two groups of 4.Each x86 instruction is typically translated to 1 or 2 macro ops. Note that AMD's and intel's terminology on what is micro and macro op is not the same.

As for "sharing penalty" who cares about that really? It is part of the design. Yeah sure,a theoretical 8 core Bulldozer with non shared parts would maybe perform 10-15% better but why this fact makes actual Bulldozer any lesser 8 core processor? The "other" bulldozer would in turn consume more power,have higher manufacturing cost(bigger die) and probably lower clock(due to higher power draw). So how does all this make actual Bulldozer "lesser 8 core"?
Sharing penalty is a small price to pay for what you get in turn : 8 real cores working @ high(er) clock speeds and consuming less power while having smaller die.

[crazydiamond]

less than a month before release and people are still debating how many cores it has?!

from AMD.com "Experience responsive game play and mega-tasking performance with the AMD FX 8-Core Processor Black Edition.

World's first native 8-core desktop processor."

[TESKATLIPOKA]

informal so BD can do 2*4 and K10 just 3 macroops?