AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer finally tested

[zalbard]

No, this is unreal. Because if will be IPC near to SB, Piledriver destroy totally all CPU segment. And with respect, it is not possible now. Example of this: Now FX has 6.02p in R11.5, in Photoshop is near 2500k etc etc. If single thread will be near SB with Piledriver, in multithread has Ivy Bridge no chance.

You have to remember that SB already clocks higher than BD using ambient cooling. IB will be even further ahead clock rate wise. So one module of PD matching one HT core of SB sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

[richierich]

IB won't really clock higher; it should theoretically just consume less power.

[mAJORD]

You have to remember that SB already clocks higher than BD using ambient cooling. IB will be even further ahead clock rate wise. So one module of PD matching one HT core of SB sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

No it doesn't.. That's the thing. the Bulldozer uArch clearly scales to higher frequencies. For it to achieve this in real world though it will need a much improved process