Does anyone know when AMD Bulldozer series will launch?

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I'm due for an upgrade in a month or two, so I'm hoping to upgrade to an AMD Bulldozer CPU.
It was supposed to launch in June, but there's no sign of it at our retailers.

Does anyone have any info on this?
 
19 sept

cant find link now, but was the latest date, but we will only see cpus in October.
 
Thanks. :) I'm still waiting on Esquire to give me a date, but they're waiting on AMD South Africa for a date...
 
19 Sept, on my birthday nogal.

Might be a bit delayed this side due to transport/shipping unless it's already pre-ordered and only released on the 19th
 
I think we'll see stock a few days after the 19th.
 
Sometime in the next two years. Date confirmed but may be pushed back due to sandy bridge pomping it solid on performance and price.
 
I have been reading the speculation about how BD will do against SB and Ivy Bridge when it is released.

Should be interesting :)
 
Honestly I am bloody curious to see what they do with the GPU's and new CPU's on the Trinity based product. Everything I have read says that LLano can jam games on a laptop at a reasonable price if you are happy with medium graphics settings. Trinity is supposed to have the new Bulldozer cores instead of the old Stars cores and will have a significantly faster graphics engine.

Next year you should be able to pick up a Trinity based laptop that plays games well for less that R6500... never considered dropping the desktop for games as the laptops were just too expensive. This may very well be an option.
 
Shayd said:
Honestly I am bloody curious to see what they do with the GPU's and new CPU's on the Trinity based product. Everything I have read says that LLano can jam games on a laptop at a reasonable price if you are happy with medium graphics settings. Trinity is supposed to have the new Bulldozer cores instead of the old Stars cores and will have a significantly faster graphics engine.

Next year you should be able to pick up a Trinity based laptop that plays games well for less that R6500... never considered dropping the desktop for games as the laptops were just too expensive. This may very well be an option.
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I doubt 6.5k will give you a laptop capable of running games well, the way you talk the lappies will be rocking 6950 and 580's, not for 6.5k
 
The llano's currently jam most games just fine at medium to low resolution. Trinity is meant to be about 50% faster so this is not unreasonable.

Considering that the top end llano's go for $550 in the states, by the end of 2012 we should see some reasonably priced gaming laptops here.

Do the research before you mock me killa, llano is the most interesting thing to happen to laptops in years.

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killadoob said:
I am not mocking you i just don't see laptops for 7k replacing desktops with 580's and 6970's.
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True I agree with you there but remember that the resolution of most rigs playing games is 1920x1080 while laptops are generally 1366x768. Thats half the pixels therefore half the requisite graphics processing power.

We aren't talking apples with apples but a sub R6500 gaming laptop simply doesn't exist currently, this opens a whole new market for us gamers. I would buy one of these instead of an Intel equivalent simply so I have a decent portable gaming rig as well.
 
Shayd said:
True I agree with you there but remember that the resolution of most rigs playing games is 1920x1080 while laptops are generally 1366x768.................. I would buy one of these instead of an Intel equivalent simply so I have a decent portable gaming rig as well.
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+1

Should be interesting when they come out. going to be tough to replace my ati 6 series card with a mobility but otherwise ill just carry on with the graphics card upgrades as always
 
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killadoob said:
Cannot wait, been holding out to see what they bring before going sandy bridge
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Clock for clock Bulldozer outperforms SB. Hope you know that.

Also if you want 16x16x pci express you need to go Bulldozer. Also if you want native 1866mhz RAM support you need Bulldozer.
 
Oh you guys. You are so optimistic.

I'm not too sure anyone would want to buy a BD chip before next year, following this.

The first one is that there is a new stepping coming, SemiAccurate is hearing mid- to late Q1/2012 for the next rev. That rev is said to bump performance, specifically integer performance, up by quite a bit, and possibly improve clocks too. Either way, it looks like that stepping is the one to keep an eye out for. It isn’t a Barcelona type fiasco, but it isn’t an HD4870 launch either.
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What we are hearing is that currently, the delays are due to availability of product. Bulldozer is built on the same process as Llano, 32SHP, so the yield problems are going to hit that chip at least as hard as Llano. Llano has a large portion of it’s area taken up by GPU shaders, so you can salvage a lot of lower binned dies because of that, and more by going to 3 or 2 cores. Assuming any single module can be fused off in Bulldozer, it could have a very high resistance to defects as well.

That said, Bulldozer is a larger die, about 50% larger than Llano, so yield should go down noticeably. Llano’s yield, to use the technical term, sucks, so Bulldozer should be at least as bad. Time will tell, but the constant slipping by a week or two here or there is a pretty good sign that this is the case. When Bulldozer is released in volume, what SKUs are offered, and their availability should give a lot of clues about yields and bin splits.
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Qwikslver said:
Clock for clock Bulldozer outperforms SB. Hope you know that.

Also if you want 16x16x pci express you need to go Bulldozer. Also if you want native 1866mhz RAM support you need Bulldozer.
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I havent seen a single reliable benchmark to indicate BD's performance - at this stage we just dont know. My guess is that it wont match SB in single threaded performance, but might beat it in multithreaded performance, especially if you have a 4 core, hyperthreaded SB competing against an 8 core, 4 module BD chip.

I reckon we might see benchmarks in October, not before then.
 
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