No UVD, no good dynamic power management, suboptimal 3D performance. Mature support is really not the right term to use here. I think basic support is the more appropriate term. If you are using the term mature support you are setting expectations that the drivers can't fulfill, this will needlessly leave people disillusioned.
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I think that basic support is a good way to put it, but I'd also call it mature basic support, considering how long it's been stable and problem-free. I mean, the drivers can run Tropics and Heaven, ffs, they are doing fine. (with some OpenGL4 functionality missing, of course)
UVD and dynamic powersaving would be nice to have, I agree.
Anyway, this chip looks very interesting. Many cores, great integrated graphics. I'm not looking for a new machine at the moment, though, my current Phenom II is still kicking ass.
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostWell, I'm not really expecting much. After all each int pipe is only 2 issues wide, and both int pipes in the module have to share the same frontend, which will be a bottleneck. Not to mention that most benches are going to be run on windows 7 which has a known bug that doesnt work well with BD. In addition for some god forsaken reason the big sites seem to prefer single threaded cookie cutter benchmarks.
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I see. Still doesnt make much sense tho, alot less then half of the instructions will be mem ops though. Additionally Phenoms issue ports handled fp instructions too, but I am under the impression that BD new flexfp unit has its own dedicated front end which has an unknown number of issue ports.
Have you seen any good block diagrams of the frontend yet?
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostI see. Still doesnt make much sense tho, alot less then half of the instructions will be mem ops though. Additionally Phenoms issue ports handled fp instructions too, but I am under the impression that BD new flexfp unit has its own dedicated front end which has an unknown number of issue ports.
Have you seen any good block diagrams of the frontend yet?
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anonymous???
Isn't openbenchmarking submission supposed to be anonymous????
This weekend while browsing OpenBenchmarking.org when deciding what features to work on next for this collaborative testing platform that's integrated into the Phoronix Test Suite, I stumbled upon more data from some engineering samples that were submitted in recent weeks. It happened to be just like the discovery of the dual-Interlagos results earlier this year -- when an AMD government partner was running the Phoronix Test Suite and knowingly decided to share their Linux benchmark results with the world using OpenBenchmarking.org. With Bulldozer now coming to market, AMD's partners are now already looking towards Trinity. From what I have found so far, the Trinity data at hand comes from two AMD partners this time and also one system that's even traced back to Sunnyvale, California.
an ip address means it's not anonymous at all!
Am I the only one concerned about this???
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Originally posted by skotadopsyxos View Postan ip address means it's not anonymous at all!
Am I the only one concerned about this???
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