Lol, nice!

 

This could really mean anything though. It may cost around the same, but until benches are out, it will probably do worse than the 2600k on certain programs etc. But for it's price, it's pretty nice. I expected a 8150P to be like $350.

 

I think this might be a repost.

AMD confirmed that the most expensive Bulldozer would be $320 back at Computex.

 

Sweet,i know what upgrade to do.Now some benches plz

 

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Originally Posted by yoshi245;14378850
This could really mean anything though. It may cost around the same, but until benches are out, it will probably do worse than the 2600k on certain programs etc. But for it's price, it's pretty nice. I expected a 8150P to be like $350.

I think it's fairly obvious that it will do worse than a 2500k/2600k in games, but better them in multithreaded scenarios. Ultimately what matters is how large or small the gaps are (for both games and other stuff).

 

Newegg:

Phenom II X4 945 $109.99
Core i3-540 $109.99

Price doesn't mean a thing.

 

hmm looks like it might be out of my budget tho >_<
might be forced to buy FX8100 or FX6100 or whatever.

 

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Originally Posted by onoz;14378971
Newegg:

Phenom II X4 945 $109.99
Core i3-540 $109.99

Price doesn't mean a thing.

Are you suggesting an i3-540 is better than a Phenom II X4?

 

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Originally Posted by onoz;14378971
Newegg:

Phenom II X4 945 $109.99
Core i3-540 $109.99

Price doesn't mean a thing.

Exactly. That Phenom even beats the i3 in (shocker) gaming.

EDIT: If you were suggesting the opposite, then that's just ignorant -.-

 

Hmmm that's a good price for a 8 core processor, idk what to do whether to wait for this or just build a sandy bridge but i guess ill wait

 

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Originally Posted by GameBoy;14379030
Are you suggesting an i3-540 is better than a Phenom II X4?

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Originally Posted by Usario;14379058
Exactly. That Phenom even beats the i3 in (shocker) gaming.

EDIT: If you were suggesting the opposite, then that's just ignorant -.-

I just mean that price doesn't suggest anything in terms of performance. There are games that the Phenom II quads perform better in (simply due to more cores), and then there games that the i3 perform better in (due to architecture).

I'm an AMD fanboy btw. Please don't hurt me.

 

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Originally Posted by GameBoy;14378956
I think it's fairly obvious that it will do worse than a 2500k/2600k in games, but better them in multithreaded scenarios. Ultimately what matters is how large or small the gaps are (for both games and other stuff).

Depends on what game you are playing. I wouldn't be surprised to see some very nice performance in highly threaded games like Battlefield.

I wouldn't try to make things so black and white. Just like different graphics cards perform differently in different games, so will CPUs.

 

Both the 940BE and the i7 920 were about $300USD at launch... however obviously the 920 outperformed the 940BE and the price quickly fell for the BE after. So I guess this probably indicates nothing about performance.

 

Did it take them 8 Bulldozer cores just to keep up with Sandy Bridge or something?

 

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Originally Posted by Diabolical999;14379207
Did it take them 8 Bulldozer cores just to keep up with Sandy Bridge or something?

This has been covered several times. This is a different route to achieving performance, and AMD has always been "core happy" while Intel has always tried to push core performance.

 

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Originally Posted by Diabolical999;14379207
Did it take them 8 Bulldozer cores just to keep up with Sandy Bridge or something?

Comparing AMD cores and intel cores is irrelevant. The architectures are too different.

Judging by pricetag makes more sense now, because intel is getting aggressive in the price segment just like AMD is, making comparison relevant.

 

BD wont keep up with i5 2500k i7 2600k at performance x price. the gap is to big and idc for so many cores because the wont be approached for many things besides amd clock per clock vs Intel is always slower, all i want is a solid gaming chip but then again I´ll have to wait on official benchmarks to say i said so, and competition is always good for us. I hope there's price drops .

 

So...how fast are they?

 

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Originally Posted by claymanhb;14379462
So...how fast are they?

I'm going to take a guess but very good in rendering and video editing and not so good in gaming.

 

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Originally Posted by Crouch;14379111
Hmmm that's a good price for a 8 core processor, idk what to do whether to wait for this or just build a sandy bridge but i guess ill wait

I would wait:drink:

 

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Originally Posted by antmiu2;14379351
BD wont keep up with i5 2500k i7 2600k at performance x price. the gap is to big and idc for so many cores because the wont be approached for many things besides amd clock per clock vs Intel is always slower, all i want is a solid gaming chip but then again I´ll have to wait on official benchmarks to say i said so, and competition is always good for us. I hope there's price drops .

Just because you think BD won't have better price : performance compared to a 2500k/2600k for your uses, that doesn't mean it wont for everybody elses uses.

 

sadly I expect BD to be worse in games

and core count won't solve that

 

Hmm, i'm more interested in the price for the six cores. Should be some more win if they have a chance to unlock

 

I always guessed that bd will be priced the same as a 2600k, If it perfroms better in multithreaded apps then this will be a bargain. I wonder how far amd will be behind the new sb-e and ivy intel cpu's ??

 

I have already began the process of getting an FX-8170. It's a long drawn out process of many references and hints towards the chips to the Fiancee before she finally catches on and says the 4 word combination that is basically the green light "how much is it?".
Infact my method is so refined that I was ooogling the Llano chips and she said those 4 words and I don't even want an APU, I had to change to damage control mode so I know that she knows that I am waiting for the 8170 in q1 2012 lol.