AMD Bulldozer vs. Intel i7-2600 -- I don't get it!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 01:19:43PM -0400, Ted wrote:
> The benchmark isn't really using multicore?, and bull has 8, so it
> probably makes sense in a server,
> but no dice on a desktop, having said that, its pretty sad how
> desktop isn't making use of multicore in most software,
> and by that I mean N cores, not 2-3.   There is a multicore zip
> program for linux, but i don't even think its standard install yet.
> We are a multicore world (on desktop) living with a single core
> application base :( and the worst part- we can't blame Bill for this
> mess :(

So far the only benchmark I have seen that the FX8150 won, was a 7zip run.

Most things even highly multithreaded seem to run a bit faster on the
i7-2600.

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Len Sorensen
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