AMD has been giving its fans lots of hope about the Bulldozer that will apparently bulldoze over Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors, or so AMD claims. But the thing is they kept on delaying it for reasons unknown. Maybe Intel’s processor is too superior? Well that may not be the case anymore, if these benchmarks are any clue.

Donanim Haber recently obtained an 8-core (that’s four Bulldozer cores) engineering sample and put it through its paces alongside an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU, and from the looks of things it fared pretty well, pulling in a 3DMark 11 score of 6265, with a physics (CPU-centric) score of 7487.

As Ars Technica points out, that puts it solidly in the centre of Tom’s Hardware’s physics scores for the Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500K, scoring 6667, and Core i7-2600K, pulling in 8152. When it came to PCMark 7 scores, however, Bulldozer fell far behind the competition.

Of course, these are just numbers — for an engineering sample, no less — which means they should be taken with a fistful of salt left over from the Bersih rally, but it’s nice to finally see Bulldozer getting down and dirty.

SOURCE via Donanimhaber