Eight-core bulldozers are faster than the eight-threaded i7

Turkish counterpart Donanimhaber. Com today brought another new version of AMD's Bulldozer architecture processor performance. It also looks beautiful.

An AMD internal document obtained by the site shows that the four-module eight-core bulldozer processor is 3.06GHz compared to the four-core eight-threaded Intel's top model Core i7-950, which can also lead the latter in the case of the hyperthreading. Up to 50%, regardless of games, 3D rendering, multimedia applications.

Specific test items and performance data are not available, but if half of the time is true, especially for games with insufficient utilization of multiple cores, this can be achieved. Bulldozers are indeed worth looking forward to. Of course, according to the usual practice, each company’s promotion of its own new product will pick up data that are beneficial to itself. This should be the case when bulldozers perform best.

The document also shows that AMD put its Phenom II X6 1100T BE in the same position with its rival Core i7-950, indicating that the eight-core bulldozer is also 50% faster than the existing top six cores, but the test proved that Phenom II X6 1100T Compared to the Core i7-950, it is also slightly inferior, which also gives us greater doubt about AMD's statement.

According to a few days ago, the bulldozer's performance can also be approached by Intel's newest model, the Core i7-980X Extreme.

The engineering sample of the bulldozer desktop version of the Zambezi River was distributed to partners in December last year, so the above statement still has certain foundation and credibility. Product certification may be ready in February and put into production in April.