AMD’s Core i7 killer, the Bulldozer has been delayed and delayed time and time again, but now we finally get to have a rough idea of how it’ll stack to Intel’s flagship lineup, the Core i7. This is a very early stage partner presentation so we should all probably take a pint of salt with this news.

DonanimHaber stated that the performance figures came from a slide in a presentation to partners, and that the 8-core processor based on the “Bulldozer” high-performance CPU architecture is pitched by its makers to have 50% higher performance than existing processors such as the Core i7 950 (4 cores, 8 threads), and Phenom II X6 1100T (6 cores).

However, there’s no mention of what speed the processor, and what the components are, so this is purely rumormill stuff. Then again, the Bulldozer has 8 physical cores while the Core i7 only has 4 physical cores with 8 logical cores thanks to Intel’s HyperThreading technology.

What’s more, AMD claimed that the Bulldozer based processor should synthetically even outperform Core i7 980X six-core, Intel’s fastest desktop processor in the market, based on the numbers. Built from ground-up, the Bulldozer architecture focuses on greater inter-core communication and reconfigured ALU/FPU to achieve higher instructions per clock cycle (IPC) compared to the previous generation K10.5, on which its current Phenom II series processors are based.

The processor is backed by new 9-series core logic, and a new AM3+ socket. AMD is expected to unveil this platform this year, but there’s no mention of a specific timeframe. Hopefully there’s no more delay this time.

SOURCE via Donanimhaber