AMD Confirms Delay of FX-Series "Bulldozer" Microprocessors.

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Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday officially confirmed the postponement of its highly-anticipated FX-series central processing units. The code-named Zambezi chips based on the Bulldozer micro-architecture will be 60 to 90 days late and will emerge in August or September, according to the company.

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This really disappointed me and now I will be building a Intel rig.
 
im waiting till next aprill to build a new amd rig, last time i bought amd or intel when they first came out, i had soo many driver and bluescreen issues due to bugs etc.
 
Small point I know, but 60-90 days from today (2nd June) is 2nd July-1st August.
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Still, everything should still be stable for xmas, which is when I'm probably doing my build.
 
nothingspecial said:
Small point I know, but 60-90 days from today (2nd June) is 2nd July-1st August.
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Still, everything should still be stable for xmas, which is when I'm probably doing my build.
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60-90 days from the 2nd of july is the 1st August - 1st of September (+/- a few days)
 
Really sucks, but it's making me feel better about my SB build. AMD should hook up with Gearbox. They got Duke Nukem Forever to roll out the door, maybe they can do the same with Bulldozer.
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AMD loves shooting itself in the foot
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Either way, its only going to be as fast as an i7-2600K in most situations, Sandy Bridge E wouldn't really affect sales given the price, but Ivy Bridge is going to be very close by the time Bulldozer gets into full swing.

And Ivy Bridge is going to be about 20% faster than Sandy, at around the same prices.

Bad news for AMD.

imo.
 
My bro's been waitin to see AMD Bulldozer launch, still been wanting an upgrade for years from the current Core 2 Duo 6700 & 4870x2 that's running Witcher 2 probably right now, just
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. So he'll probably go for a Sandy Bridge and wait for Keplar GPU's. I urge him to wait for Ivy though he isn't keen on the expence as he'd rather spend the money elsewhere. Sandy Bridge is cheap like in comparison to history and X58 and Ivy Bridge should follow X58 pricing with top end CPU's at around £1000, i think or more. So £200-£300 is good as Sandy Bridge is fine for gaming. My i5 750 is a solid performer.

I think Ivy Bridge will be 20% at minimum faster over Sandy Bridge like areas where the mass of power isn't needed and programmed for like games and stick a code breaking FBI/CIA watever programme on and it'll blitz everything, that's what this is about. 32nm micro technology, about double the components over Sandy Bridge in the same area, less power consumption, heat. That'll be excellent for overclocking. AMD marketing, advertising is worse than Intel and Nvidia's like they pull gimmiks and sweep the noob market with BS ideas like on Steam they write:

HD 6990, faster than the world's fastest graphics card, we should know, we built that too.

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Looking for the latest edge in gaming hardware? Then look no further than AMD's new Phenom II™ X6 six core processors, the fastest processors AMD has ever built.

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Cores. Our six or their four. Experience the power of Phenom X6 processors today.

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Phenom isn't new and isn't a solid performer. AMD chips can get some records on benchmarks and without the pudding because they run like Red Dead on the XBOX 360, that's quite bad, and worse, microstuttering etc. I don't know much about AMD stuff I only learn't more about how bad their stuff is than good.

o well intel do us well so well done. They back up their hardware very well, drivers, research, quality and on on on... The software developers need the hardware engineered to suit and Intel are all over that feild, they've the money, everything they need to support it and the gaming market is blessed similarly by Nvidia and they advertise this alot. AMD doesn't.
 
Jerome said:
Sandy Bridge is cheap like in comparison to history and X58 and Ivy Bridge should follow X58 pricing with top end CPU's at around £1000, i think or more. So £200-£300 is good as Sandy Bridge is fine for gaming. My i5 750 is a solid performer.

I think Ivy Bridge will be 20% at minimum faster over Sandy Bridge like areas where the mass of power isn't needed and programmed for like games and stick a code breaking FBI/CIA watever programme on and it'll blitz everything, that's what this is about. 32nm micro technology, about double the components over Sandy Bridge in the same area, less power consumption, heat.
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Sandy Bridge E is "Extreme", it will carry the highest performance and the highest costs. Its Sandy Bridge maxed out, and will be on the LGA 2011 mobo (New Enthusiast mobo).

Ivy Bride is the die shrink of Sandy Bridge from 32nm-->22nm. Extra 20% or so gain in performance, probably the same sort of increase in price. Ivy Bridge will work on 1155 socket, but knowing Intel there will be a new socket just for Ivy Bridge.

i.e. Ivy Bridge will NOT follow x58 pricing, Sandy Bridge E/xtreme will however.
 
ok thanks. is sandy bridge E 22nm?

Wiki says for Ivy Brindge: Intel is targeting a 30 percent graphics performance and 20 percent CPU performance boost compared to Sandy Bridge.

So sandy bridge E should do a 22nm chip to top the lot
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I wrote 32nm you quoted, soz i forgot it's 22nm i meant. thanks
 
thanks.

my bro today said he's read AMD don't know when the Bulldozer is ready and it's possible it doesn't touch Sandy Bridge for performance. That is quite a shocker for a big manufacturer considering the other problems like driver support, build quality etc is like quite possible. There's alot tmore to live up to today, technology is at another breakthrough stage, intel has the power of it. Ulimatley looking like paying the difference for and Intel build over AMD predicted prices is gona be the way to do it.

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edit: he said he read there's a problem with bulldozer stepping technology
 
Probably ran into the same thing that made Intel postpone, like how AMD ran into similar problems Nvidea had last year with their graphics cards.

Or maybe they are postponing so Intel can't use the argument Bulldozer is old news and 2011 socket is the latest thing. By postponing aswell as Intel postponing they will have a more even playing field
 
nothingspecial said:
Small point I know, but 60-90 days from today (2nd June) is 2nd July-1st August.
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Still, everything should still be stable for xmas, which is when I'm probably doing my build.
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SPS said:
60-90 days from the 2nd of july is the 1st August - 1st of September (+/- a few days)
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Just realised we both messed this up and counted 30 days instead of 60!
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2nd June + 60/90 days = 1st August/31 August

Will certainly be interesting to see how they compete with the 1155 Ivy Bridge chips. Could that be why they've delayed? I could imagine a conversation at AMD something like this:

"Yes, Bulldozer has 25% gains over Sandy Bridge, but that puts it at around the same performance level of Ivy Bridge, give or take 5%. If we delay, we can compete on price AND perforamance with Intel." (numbers are only guesses)
 
Bulldozer is going to match Sandy Bridge, not be 20% faster, judging by what AMD themselves have said (things like Bulldozer being 1.5x faster than an i7-950 etc).

Ivy Bridge will be 20% faster than Sandy Bridge though.

IMO, AMD would ideally want to release as early as possible, to get some good sales in before Ivy Bridge releases (I don't think Sandy Bridge E is directly competing with Bulldozer, wildly different price points as well).
 
I am with Ya03sin the 20% better preformance would be also taken from its best case scenario and peak performance over Intel not its overall performance same with the case in GPU's like the video cards, AMD comes out on top in gaming but in real processing like folding Nvidia take the crown.

AMD will fall behind like it did last time and the time before that.
 
You guys can't really complain. They're probably working as hard as they can and they will release an EIGHT core CPU. Nothing to complain about at all. Just take your time, AMD.
 
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