AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer finally tested

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I find the responses in this thread to be borderline hillarious; the number of people with buyer's remorse for waiting for bulldozer is incredible. Just let it go and buy a an i7; I just got one last night after reading this thread. The gig is up; to be frank I wouldn't be shocked at all if this is in large part why Chew* is taking a break; he probably knew there'd be a ton of people groveling at AMD's alter. That they'd spin and say anything to get a piece of the action when AMD does better another chip or two down the road.

Also semiaccurate had a interesting article that sums up what I'm seeing here:

Back to Bulldozer. Optimistically speaking, if the designers did right, each core in a module will have no worse performance than a hypothetical single discrete Bulldozer core, but take up less area than two of those. Best case, each core will have 2x the resources of a single discrete core at no ‘cost’. The FP unit is a good example of this concept, it could really shine under certain workloads.

If those crystal ball gazers didn’t do their work, the worst case is one side bottlenecks the other, stealing resources, thrashing caches, and destroying performance for both cores. Per core performance/mm^2 from a shared architecture could range from amazing to horrid, the end result depends on so many variables that it is almost hard to fathom.

To me that looks like exactly what is happening. AMD wanted to try something novel and got bit in the ass by it. Unfortunately for them they don't have the capital to be behaving this way. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they are bought out or bankrupt by the end of this coming year.