AMD Bulldozer could give Sandy Bridge some comptetition

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"So AMD's Bulldozer has been chugging along at a snail's pace when it comes to actually making it to market, but if these benchmarks are any clue, the sluggishness stops there. Donanim Haber recently obtained an 8-core (that's four Bulldozer cores) engineering sample and put it through its paces alongside an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU, and from the looks of things it faired pretty well, pulling in a 3DMark 11 score of 6265, with a physics (CPU-centric) score of 7487. As Ars Technica points out, that puts it solidly in the center ofTom's Hardware's physics scores for the Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500K, scoring 6667, and Core i7-2600K, pulling in 8152. When it came to PCMark 7 scores, however, Bulldozer fell far behind the competition. Of course, these are just numbers -- for an engineering sample, no less -- which means they should be taken with a fistful of salt, but it's nice to finally see Bulldozer getting down and dirty. If your hunger for benchmarks hasn't been fully satisfied, hop on over to the source for more results."

AMD Bulldozer prototype gets benchmarked, could give Sandy Bridge some competition -- Engadget