I'm looking for some links or knowledge about this processor. Some guy was on here yesterday saying the old Core i7 900 processors are much faster but he didn't have any links or facts to back it up. Then I was at an AMD shareholders message board and they're saying it will be 40% faster than the 1100T.Also, does anyone know the exact release date?Is anyone planning on buying this when it comes out? Will all AM3 motherboards support this processor or is there a limit?
The fact is, looking at various benchmark tests that the current 1100T is equivalent to the original i7 920 or i7 930 in performance (the bottom line first generation i7 cpu's). The i7 960 is about 30% more efficient than the i7 930. So what AMD is really saying is, they are NOT able to compete against the new Intel i7 2600K cpu - but this new Bulldozer should be equivalent to the current first generation i7 960 or i7 970 cpu's. It will still not compete against the original Intel hexcore cpu 980x.
That should answer your question, with the 1100T being way slower than the i7, the bulldozer isn't going to be any faster. AMD hasn't won any real awards since way back in the Athlon+ days, and then they got some overclocking awards from the 940 and the 965 processors, but Intel always has their balls in hand... Just look at ATI and Nvidia, there is only one graphics card that will out perform a 590GTX, that is a 6790, but it costs $900...
as they arent released yet the is no way of knowing, the only way to gauge performance is to compare benchmarks once a processor is released AMD is claiming 50% faster then the lower end i7s that puts it around 40% quicket than the 1100t like you say they are being released in june but i dont think an exact date in june is confirmed i saw somewhere the 11th but thats anyones guess not all am3 boards will support this alot are getting bios updates though mainly the 800 series chipset ones, if you go on to manufacturers websites they have a list of boards which have stable bios's able to run bulldozer processors. all 890gx and fx boards should be being updated for them.
