Amd Officially Benches Bulldozer

[Lanek]

Depend on what we are speaking ... multithreaded software or games 3D bench ?

And yes, at 260x1600 with all maxxed, the cpu have little to no importance. (not completely true in Dirt3, anyway at 1920x1080 8xAA i have not test at 2560x1600)


Anyway, i think AMD was more doing a presentation of Bulldozer working system, more of show numbers.

the margin by wich the "8 core" CPU beat the quad i5 (without HT) on the video encoding seems very worrying, as far as I know this tasks scales much better than most,

on Dirt 3... HD6790 or 6970!?
and I bet that if they compared with even their old CPU (PII X4 980) it would be quite close to BD, they are probably more GPU limited anyway...

http://static.techspot.com/articles-...bench/CPU2.png
http://static.techspot.com/articles-...bench/2560.png

(look at the 6990 with i7 920 @ 3.7GHz, basically the same as the 980X and BD with 2x6970?, if this is the same version of the game, settings and benchmark)

does really the 920 beat the 2600K in there test ? Huuum, i don't see any reason, specially when it's absolutely not the case in Dirt2 ...( same engine, just some little thing added) ... I can be wrong, but counting the 2600K is a lot faster in any games, i don't see why..