AMD Bulldozer

[atr123]

Any thoughts on the new AMD octo-core processor? Will it beat sandybridge in terms of performance in fsx? 8 cores, 8mb L3 cache 8mb L2 cache = fsx bliss?

[Guest JSkorna]

FS is mainly a single core program, so what would it do with the 7 extra cores?

[Glynn]

HelloWell it certainly uses both cores on my E8600@4ghz almost 100% usage on both coreswhile flying over GenX VFR scenery.Here is an interview with Phil taylor regarding multi core support in FSX.Bulldozer will be certainly interesting.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wKe3V1l6Dk&feature=player_embeddedSome more readinghttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/ptaylor/archive/2007/04/09/fsx-sp1-news-intel-quote.aspxhttp://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/microsoft-flight-simulator-x-soars-to-new-heights-with-multi-threading/

[dazz]

Bulldozer is not really an octo-core as we know it. It has 4 modules, each one with 2 Integer units and 1 floating point unit. It doesn't really matter too much, once you have 3 cores, FSX doesn't scale good at all with extra cores. IPC and overclockability is what I'm more interested in when it comes to FSX, and it's extremely unlikely that Bulldozer will even come close to Sandy Bridge there