Bulldozer vs. Sandy Bridge vs. Nehalem with an HD 7970 @ Techpowerup

[Bond007]

Nothing surprising here for me, but a nice review none the less. In some games the difference is minimal, but in others CPU can make a substantial difference.

Bulldozer vs. Sandy Bridge vs. Nehalem

The final all resolution chart from the review:

[Arinoth]

So can anyone tell me how is BD not a flop/failure...oh wait...

[jtktam]

link doesn't work

it really depends on what you are doing..

i know for me, to get the 4p folding rigs, it would be impossible with xeons at my budget..

-joe

[JJThomp]

Nice idea but definitely expected, I don't see how you could expect it to be any different.

[Eldonko]

Wish they had SB-E in there

[Silent_Avenger]

Yea BD was a big fail maybe Win 8 will fix it? Has anyone done benching with win 8 dev preview yet? I'm sure something much better will be out by the time win 8 releases anyways maybe phenom IIIs or an eight core phenom II or even better a properly working BD generation.

[Bond007]

Originally Posted by jtktam

link doesn't work

it really depends on what you are doing..

i know for me, to get the 4p folding rigs, it would be impossible with xeons at my budget..

-joe

Link should be working now.

[great_big_abyss]

Yikes, we all know that BD was a big fail. It gets it's ass kicked by SB, SE-E, Nehalem, Phenom, whatever you want. Don't you think it's time we stop beating a dead horse already?

[sswilson]

Once again... if they'd start marketing them with a little bit of truth in advertising they'd get better clock for clock comparison benchmarks.... if they applied the 2/3 core performance realistically and (correctly) called their so called 8 core chips a 5 1/2 core they'd stack up pretty well on comparison benchmarks... of course, then they'd have to price them accordingly.....

[SKYMTL]

There really isn't any way to compare one architecture to another unless the clocks are normalized across ALL platforms or multiple CPUs from each platform are tested.