AMD's Bulldozer Pushed to 8.46 GHz, Breaks Own Record
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Another handful of megahertz, another record.
AMD's Bulldozer has the honor of being in the Guinness Book of World Records for achieving the Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor.
The record set on August 31, 2011, in Austin, Texas by "Team AMD FX," a group comprised of overclocking specialists working alongside top AMD technologists, reached 8.429 GHz, breaking the previous record of 8.308 GHz.
Now that Bulldozer is available for public consumption, an overclocker named Andre Yang claims to have pushed the chip to 8.462 GHz. He did so with a core voltage of 1.992V on an Asus Crosshair V Formula motherboard.
Somebody call Guinness.
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What gets me far more interested is an extreme, fully-stable overclock on a fully functioning processor (yes, these do exist).
^ This. It needs to run at 5.5-6ghz to come close to SB in per core speed. In five years when all the software is written to utilize 8 threads it'll do just fine, until then it's a flop flop flop.
the 2 bd cores are equivalent to intel's 1 core. this speed is comparable to that oc'ed celeron, if i remember right.
anyone complaining about asus' crosshair mobo being bad for bd should look at the cpu-z screeny and realize that it's a very good mobo for bd even if the cpu sucks.
btw, this cpu would still get beaten by a lynnfield 750 in efficiency analysis.
What gets me far more interested is an extreme, fully-stable overclock on a fully functioning processor (yes, these do exist).
I don't want to overreact, but I have to say this is one of the top technology blunders and disappointments of all time. I was really disappointed when I saw the leaked benchmarks were real.
No... no he did not.
This AGAIN? Why, then, 8-threaded i7-2600 outperforms it? Somehow Win7 CAN place all the threads in Intel's case.
not just threads, the things that make the bulldozer look bad is the applications that are still single core, much less thread.
windows 7 was made ground up to support threads in the i processors. wait till win 8 to judge bulldozer fully there.
Dude, I think they are still chasing Yorkfield.