AMD ''Interlagos'' Bulldozer Benchmarks Leaked

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/B [...] 12445.html

Interesting but I will lay some up front stuff to avoid stupid flaming and /or fighting:

1. This is 32 BD cores compared to 4 SB and 6 Nehalem cores. So its not ANY indication as to how well Zambezi (4-8 core BD units) will perform against current Intel stuff.

2. The clock speed is low but thats normal for AMD when they intro more cores into the server market. They always start off with low and move up higher where Intel replicates its desktop side in clock speed. Does not indicate that BD wont be able to clock higher.

Overall, i think its a pure BS benchmark. No idea why they would even think of comparing 4 cores 8 threads to 32 cores but who am I to disagree with them?

why does the release date keep on changing..You piece of crap AMD..We need BullDozer now!

Remember these are specifically the server CPUs, which is why its two 16 core Interlagos chips.

Desktop will have up to 8 cores codenamed Zambezi. It is supposed to be released in June of this year but no hard date has been given, so its still not a 100%.

I would like to see how Interlagos performs against Xeons, specifically 2 Nehalem EX CPUs vs two of these. With that we could see if a 4 core i7 could compete with a 8 core BD unit.

This is legit though. Its even on THG itself.

Lets hope not and hope it doesn't fall into another back and forth crap fest.

oh come on 64gb of ram and a dual socket board...

this is a bull s**t test

was there a dual sandybridge board with the same 64gb ram

i doubt it...

this is pure marketting crap.

Unfortunately, performance information (good or bad, promising or not) is pretty meaningless without price information to go with it. Oh well, the wait goes on.

Edit: the fact that AMD didn't "win across the board" comes as no surprise, even though they won one test by a substantial margin. Their architecture looks sufficiently different from the tried-and-true that I rather suspect we're going to see the intended use make a much bigger difference when deciding which CPU to choose. It is possible that AMD will own the blade-server market with their latest generation (it looks like you can run a LOT of VMs with Bulldozer; can you say "cloud?" ), while yielding even the low-margin desktop. This isn't what I want to see (I think "cloud" computing is generally a really bad idea for the mainstream), but may be what AMD wants. We'll see.

jf-amd we are open to comments here

Hmm, these "leaked" benchies have been all over the board. I suspect this one is also bogus. Why didn't they release the other results if they actually benched those as well?

i think a cinebench R11.5 multithreaded run would have been a good test to show the capability of all cores of the CPUs