soccerballtux
Lifer
- Dec 30, 2004
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Of course BD will have lots of improvements over Deneb/Thuban, but you have to remember the competition (Intel) already had some of these improvements for a year/few years already, so it's hard to get too excited about them (Examples: 32nm process, HKMG, Power gating, Turbo etc).
Honestly I see BD as being more interesting than SandyBridge, but I won't kid myself into believing that BD will be faster. It's possible that an 8-core BD beats a 4-core (8-thread) SB when most/all cores are running, but that's maybe the only situation where BD may come ahead (at similar clocks). Though this comparison would only be fair if AMD prices their 8-core processors similarly to Intel's Quad SBs.
It's very likely that AMD will compete with SB by releasing higher clocked BD at reasonable prices. One handicap that SandyBridge will have is that every CPU will have an IGP with it, unnecessarily increasing die size (cost), when enthusiasts will use a discrete Graphics card anyways.
at this point everything is so fast anyways I just like having the psychological benefit of having 8 virtual cores in task manager. I'm past the point of caring which is faster. Everything I need my comp for it accomplishes perfectly fast.
