Bulldozer on Windows 8 Consumer Preview

[gibbs007]

This question is to anybody who owns AMD Bulldozer CPU and has installed Windows 8 CP: Is it any faster?

 

[RavenSEAL]

Faster in...what? General performance?

 

[Borealis7]

the Kernel Scheduler is supposed to be more optimized for BD. multithreaded apps should see gains but for regular desktop use you wont see much difference.

 

[gibbs007]

Yes, especially games.

 

[exar333]

Single-threaded performance gains negligable. Multi-threaded performance is minor, but better than Win7. From what has been reviewed so far, the gains are a few %.

 

[superccs]

The main prob that the scheduler causes relates to how often turbo can be used. So at most think of performance of a 3Ghz cpu vs a 3.5 Ghz.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

I still doubt it would compare to a 2500k

 

[Edrick]

Multi-threaded performance is minor, but better than Win7. From what has been reviewed so far, the gains are a few %.

And how much of that is general Win8 performance increase (for both Intel and AMD)?

 

[exar333]

And how much of that is general Win8 performance increase (for both Intel and AMD)?

Good question. I am hoping for a in-depth review on this now that the consumer preview is out (AT anyone? )

Based on what we saw with the Win7 patches, BD may see a little more performance jump vs. Intel, but it also could be that we see similar gains for both. If that is the case, it's really negligable for AMD because their competition also gained.

 

[fixbsod]

I wanna see some benches and pretty graphs and things broken down to the thousandsths decimal place!!

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

bulldozer is a bullcrapper

ma bad, dog

 

[T_Yamamoto]

bulldozer is a bullcrapper

ma bad, dog

inb4modpm

 

[Idontcare]

bulldozer is a bullcrapper

ma bad, dog

c'mon now, there's really no need to crap on the guy's thread with this.

 

[Edgemeal]

c'mon now, there's really no need to crap on the guy's thread with this.

Why not just have a forum for AMD and one for Intel?

 

[Regs]

Anand's opinion w/hotfixes :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5448/the-bulldozer-scheduling-patch-tested

 

[cytg111]

Anand's opinion w/hotfixes :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5448/the-bulldozer-scheduling-patch-tested

windows 8 .. not 7 ... 8 ... not 7

while the result will problary be similar, still .... 8 .. not 7 ... 8

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

see below

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

c'mon now, there's really no need to crap on the guy's thread with this.

i was just having fun with name play

 

[Dresdenboy]

This might be an indication:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/8361914-post5701.html

 

[Don Karnage]

Windows 8 isn't going to fix the putrid IPC of bulldozer. That is the real problem.

 

[Idontcare]

Why not just have a forum for AMD and one for Intel?

Segregation is anti-community.

This subforum exists for community interactions, building walls within the community is the exact opposite of the reason for the forum to exist in the first place.

Keeping everyone in the same room forces both sides to deal with the critiques of their position, a very healthy and robust part of community interaction.

 

[Rvenger]

Segregation is anti-community.

This subforum exists for community interactions, building walls within the community is the exact opposite of the reason for the forum to exist in the first place.

Keeping everyone in the same room forces both sides to deal with the critiques of their position, a very healthy and robust part of community interaction.

Also keeps IDC busy

 

[Chiropteran]

I'm tempted to try this, but a couple things have been holding me back.

1- Not really unsatisfied with my windows 7 performance, so no need.

2- I'd rather stab my eye with a rusty fork than use the metro UI.

3- Don't want to format my SSD, and if I use a spare HDD for Windows 8 I won't get a real feel for it's true performance since it'll be on a slow spindle drive.

4- I'm lazy.

 

[Subyman]

There were some reviews when the dev preview hit and they were very lackluster. I doubt much has changed since then.

 

[frostedflakes]

I wouldn't say lackluster, some situations saw some pretty decent gains in lightly threaded stuff. More CPU limited games like WoW saw between 8-12% performance improvement depending on resolution, for example.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8150-zambezi-bulldozer-990fx,3043-23.html

The Win 7 patch only seemed to improve things by up to 5% or so even in more CPU limited games, though, so Win 8 might have additional improvements that didn't make their way into the Win 7 hotfix.