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Bulldozer on Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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.
 
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 %.
 
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.
 
Edrick said:
And how much of that is general Win8 performance increase (for both Intel and AMD)?
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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.
 
Edgemeal said:
Why not just have a forum for AMD and one for Intel?
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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.
 
Idontcare said:
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.
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Also keeps IDC busy 😛
 
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.
 
There were some reviews when the dev preview hit and they were very lackluster. I doubt much has changed since then.
 
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.
 
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