Recent content by Dark_Archonis

The forums here have been full of derp for a while now. And all other forums on the internet. Trolling and derping (and nerd rage and shilling) is at an all-time high. It's an epidemic that mods and admins are not immune to either.

Well, since very few replies here, I decided to do the hard work myself. After some thorough analysis and calculations, here is what I have found: At the very worst, clock for clock, thread per thread, Sandy Bridge outperforms Dothan by around 45%. At the very best, clock for clock and thread...

Yeah, thanks anyways. I'm just curious percentage-wise, how much better clock for clock is Sandy Bridge versus the older Intel CPUs I mentioned? I know there are some CPU gurus in here, hopefully some of them can shed light on this?

I've already seen that data before, and it's not what I'm looking for. Most of the old CPUs I mentioned are not listed there.

I've been looking deep into the technical info and benchmarks, but have had trouble figuring this out: How does the IPC of Sandy Bridge compare, clock for clock, core for core, to some much older Intel CPUs such as Dothan, or Coppermine or Conroe? I'm curious just how much of an IPC...

With Bulldozer being a big disappointment, people here and on other forums are having knee-jerk reactions and proclaiming this is the "dark ages" for the CPU industry, and so on and so forth. That couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is, Intel is no longer even competing with AMD. AMD...

So you're an ATI fanboy, but also an Intel fanboy? Very interesting, seeing as ATI is now a part of AMD. By the way, I wasn't referring specifically to you with that post.

The idle power consumption is great. At load though, Zacate's consumption is nothing special. Keep in mind future Atoms will continue to go down in both idle and load consumption. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Atom D525 offers the same power consumption as the 510 while...

Given the hype for Bobcat, and also considering Bobcat is out-of-order while Atom is in-order, personally I don't find the performance all that amazing. Compared to a 1.8Ghz Atom D525, the gap would have been even smaller. In the single-thread Cinebench test, Zacate E-350 beats an Atom...

So where are all of you AMD supporters that claimed the 69xx cards would definitely not be delayed? Time for you to eat some crow and admit you were wrong.

Anand's initial Brazos (Zacate) benchmarks are in, and yes, it is VERY clear now. Even a low-end Celeron E absolutely smokes Zacate in terms of CPU performance. A mobile CULV Sandy Bridge will easily smoke a Bobcat in terms of CPU performance. Where are you getting these imaginary numbers...

To everyone saying that we know "very little" with regard's to Bulldozer's cache setup, I have a question to ask you (one which I already know the answer to, but will ask anyways). When Bulldozer comes out, and if it happens to be the case that Bulldozer's cache setup (and practical function...

That does not make it a "home run". Reality will show us whether in fact it is a home run or not. Objective measures of that would be the market share Bobcat achieves, acceptance of Bobcat systems among "Joe public", revenue, number of OEMs that use Bobcat in their systems, and other similar...

To clarify, I meant power-efficient, not performance efficient. In terms of power efficiency, HT is a good way to utilize more of the CPU's resources.

This is a valid point Zebo. Rumors are AMD's 6900 cards are being delayed by none other than TSMC yield issues. If this is true, it's very ironic. The 69xx cards might not be available in time for the holiday season, which would give Nvidia a really nice boost. Exactly. AMD's bet with...