An overview of the platform
The FX lineup has eight processors spread across seven models (one model has two TDP variants,more on this on the slides). Only Four models was launched at first though:two 8 cores;one six core and one quad core model
Telling of AMD’s cut-throat pricing (and potentially, performance), the top of the line FX-8150 is going to be priced at a very reasonable $245.
With the technical jargon out of the way lets see what AMD has to say in their product slides.The slides are pretty self explanatory.Just some points are worth mentioning:
In the first slide
- The most important comparison in this chart for overclockers and gamers is the fact that AMD has a full 32 lanes of PCIe graphics capability.
- The next most important spec is that all FX processors will have unlocked multipliers. Fun for everybody, regardless of budget!
The next slide pretty much puts the FX-8150 against the 2500K…
Next up is some benchmarking and gaming graphs comparing to its competition.
and some more slides on gaming improvements[both on performance and overall systems cost.
A SENSIBLE gamer will never buy a 1000 USD CPU just to game..so getting a bulldozer on the basis of these benchmarks makes sense.BUT intel sandy bridge chips can do that too.
Next up..some info about the benefits of Turbo core(left) and some comparison with an i7 980X based System(right):
Now comes the part we all are excited about..the future!!! We see some heavy construction equipments there;lets hope they get the job done.
You all saw in the slide above that the FX-8150 is a worthy competitor to an i5 2500K but didn’t quite catch its big brother i7 2600K. A 10-15% improvement with Piledriver should close that gap to almost nothing. Intel wont stop though so AMD has to work on the IPC.
So there u have it guys..the Bulldozer in a nutshell.Its a step away from the norm as said earlier..so i urge all of you to not compare with the core i series directly. What AMD did is they have gone for a complete rewrite of the processor as we know normally so its unfair if they are judged on the scales of a existing product.
