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

So AMD’s Bulldozer have been chugging along at a snail’s pace in relation to actually making it to market, but when 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 appearance of items it faired pretty much, 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 inside the center of Tom’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 contest. Obviously, these are only numbers — for an engineering sample, no less — which suggests they ought to be concerned with a fistful of salt, but it’s nice to finally see Bulldozer getting down and dirty. In case your hunger for benchmarks hasn’t been fully satisfied, hop on over to the source for more results.

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