Re: reason for AMD's Bulldozer fiasco?

Date	2011-10-21 20:19 -0400
From	Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com>
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Subject	Re: reason for AMD's Bulldozer fiasco?
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On 21/10/2011 9:47 AM, Orson Cart wrote:
> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20111013232215_Ex_AMD_Engineer_Explains_Bulldozer_Fiasco.html
>
> Sounds plausible: way too many transistors plopped down by dumb automated design.
> So they made an 8-cylinder CPU that is as good a Phenom X6 or an Intel quad
> core...
> On the other hand, what about the Interlagos? I haven't seen the tons of bad
> reviews for that, and Cray bought the first 10,000 allegedly.
> Aren't those things just bigger Zambesis that use ECC RAM?

I think the main difference is that the Interlagos Opteron chips are 
being used in servers where all of the cores make a difference, but the 
Zambezi desktop chips are being used in desktops and not fully utilized. 
Good for multithreaded workloads, not great on single-threads though.

	Yousuf Khan

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reason for AMD's Bulldozer fiasco? "Orson Cart" <ex-privat@parts.org> - 2011-10-21 14:47 +0100
  Re: reason for AMD's Bulldozer fiasco? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2011-10-21 20:19 -0400
    Re: reason for AMD's Bulldozer fiasco? Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> - 2011-10-30 09:36 -0700
      Re: reason for AMD's Bulldozer fiasco? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2011-10-30 23:03 -0400
        Re: reason for AMD's Bulldozer fiasco? Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> - 2011-11-01 13:25 -0700
          Re: reason for AMD's Bulldozer fiasco? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2011-11-02 20:57 -0400

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