It's really obvious this chip was designed for servers
High core counts, terrible single-threaded performance, huge caches.
I wouldn't be surprised if removing that 8MB L3 cache ended up speeding up a lot of the desktop benchmarks, just because of it's slow latency getting in the way of everything.
Looking at some of the benches, it does perform decently for the price in some tests. It's just really bad in others.
According to AnandTech, this chip was supposed to launch at about 4.5Ghz, and AMD must be having a lot of issues with the 32nm process. Hopefully they can get that figured out soon and speed things up.
At this point, though, I think i might just go ahead and get an Ivy Bridge when they come out. It doesn't look like Bulldozer necessarily brings much to the desktop even if they do get things ironed out.
High core counts, terrible single-threaded performance, huge caches.
I wouldn't be surprised if removing that 8MB L3 cache ended up speeding up a lot of the desktop benchmarks, just because of it's slow latency getting in the way of everything.
Looking at some of the benches, it does perform decently for the price in some tests. It's just really bad in others.
According to AnandTech, this chip was supposed to launch at about 4.5Ghz, and AMD must be having a lot of issues with the 32nm process. Hopefully they can get that figured out soon and speed things up.
At this point, though, I think i might just go ahead and get an Ivy Bridge when they come out. It doesn't look like Bulldozer necessarily brings much to the desktop even if they do get things ironed out.
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