AMD Zambezi news, info, fans !

[MaddMutt]

Let's say it did fail to meet expectations and actually is worse than K10.5, it would make no sense at all to actually release it. AMD would cancel the release and work on getting something out that actually is better.

The fact that they are releasing it means it will be better than K10.5. Either that or the management have no sense of reality at all.
Without benchmarks, we won't know how much faster than K10.5 it is, or whether it beats SB in IPC and/or single threaded performance; all we can know is it will be faster than K10.5.

If not, then the entire management at AMD should be given a visit by the nice men in white coats.

Are you implying that there might still be a revision out there??????

From earlier post's on here, it was implied that Bulldozer is final with stepping B2 and they received it on the 5th of this month??????

Both JF and Movieman have stated that the early ES samples had problems and that WE would see the REAL PERFORMANCE when it was finished and shipped.

I don't think CHEW ( also posted on here) who set a World Record with the BD (WTG), would have told us that the ES samples were bad and don't believe the bad numbers from them.

Some of you Xtreme Members might have the shipping BD ver in hand and running the Benchmarks right now!!!!!!!

This is all speculation as the NDA will probably not be lifted until BD is on store shelves