AMD Bulldozer

[Piotr Tarsa]

I am interested in how Bulldozer performs in lossless data compression. Generally most of benchmarks focus on floating-point heavy tasks like gaming, multimedia, etc But when I look at lossless data compression benchmarks then Bulldozer performs competitively even to i7-3770k - of course Bulldozer draws much more power, but on the other hand it's cheaper.

Some lossless data compression benchmarks:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...7_3770k&num=11 (7-Zip Compression)
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...7_3770k&num=12 (Parallel BZIP2 Compression)

In both benchmarks i7-3770k and FX-8150 were very close to each other. Probably in other fixed-point heavy tasks Bulldozer would be equally competitive (for example as a database or application server).

Does anybody here own a Bulldozer and can run benchmarks?

A related question:
Does anybody have a clue about what sockets will future Bulldozer generations use? Will they stick to AM3+? And when Piledriver will come?
Update:
There are two integer cores per module and one core for floats. But what about integer SSE? Will it be handled by integer cores or the shared logic?

[Karhunen]

I'm stuck with a K6 still, but I understand that integer SSE handled by the two FMAC pipelines which can be muxed for FP AVR instructions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldoz...rchitecture%29

[MiY4Gi]

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