fugno
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An early stepping of an octo core Bulldozer chip (engineering sample) has been tested over at Chiphell. Results are decidedly disappointing with AMD stating that a revised stepping is in the works which should be faster. Here is a screenie of their result coupled with a run done on my 'aging' 4 core DDR2 machine:
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The full article can be found here:
AMD B0 Stepping Bulldozer CPU Benchmarked
This doesn't look good. I'll be happy with a quad core intel if it's going to do better than a octo core AMD. Now I'm really confused.