Bulldozer Benchmarks, What Do They Mean?

[bim27142]

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"Last week, some benchmarks of an early Interlagos system using engineering samples emerged online. There has been quite a bit of discussion, as consumers and competitors alike are eager to get a good understanding of Bulldozer’s performance. It is only natural that people have attempted to divine future performance based on these initial results. Several people have asked me about my opinion on the data, and what it means. "

Real World Technologies - Bulldozer Benchmarks, What Do They Mean?

So is this an April fools article or what?

[EarlZ]

That article was written on the 30th and is a re-write of the intitial benchmarks from the Interlagos test system, conclusion was its not even faster than a i5 2500K