AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer finally tested

[zalbard]

The problem is that it will cost even more transistors and dice space ==> $$$

It's already 2B, which is insane...

BD will stay very sensitive to code quality as long as the front end is not 4 large on each side of the threads, this is the bottom line.

And I don't see a lot of consumer grade applications getting optimised for BD, since it's made by AMD and its performance is poor.

1) run it on windows 8 or get an instruction patch for windows 7

Intel CPUs benefit from improved scheduler as well.

2) lower the price a little

2B transistors, plus AMD needs to pay for 5 years of R&D... So not by much.

3) disable the b2 cluster set in bios ( run it as quad so the shared cache order doesn't fubar you)

MT performance will be even further away from Phenom II x6 then...

4) overclock it to 4.8-5.0ghz as appropriate for this forum.

Hardly possible without extreme heat and volts. And some chips simply can't make it there...