AMD FX series bulldozer delayed till September for not being "competitive"

**Top-Tier-Tech** · June 02, 2011, 12:37 AM

Just a few days ago AMD denied the delay and a few weeks ago claimed their CPU's could outperform Sandy Bridge, now they confirm the delay based on their non-competitive performance. Fail ~~MAD~~ AMD.... fail

Early this week it turned out that AMD had advised its partners that its next-generation high-performance desktop chips would only be launched in September. Apparently, the currently available B0 and B1 stepping Zambezi/Bulldozer processors can function at around 2.50GHz/3.50GHz (nominal/turbo) clock-speeds and at such frequencies they cannot deliver performance AMD considers competitive, a person with knowledge of the situation said on Monday.

As a consequence, AMD needs to tune the design of the processor and create B2 stepping of the chip with better clock-speed potential amid similar thermal design power (TDP), which will take several months to complete.

I was waiting till' June to buy an AM3+ platform with SLI support for a PC but I guess I'll go with intel again in light of this.

**snuggans** · June 02, 2011, 12:56 AM

/hugs my sandy bridge i bought two months ago

**Devilmaypoop** · June 02, 2011, 01:41 AM

This is very similar to Phenom I situation with the immature 45nm process. Instead of releasing it horrible and slow, AMD is just gonna wait and release it non sucky.

If they released it now, it couldn't compete only because of the bad stepping that's causing it to use more power, thus making it run at slower speeds too. Probably at B2 stepping it's going to run at the rated 3.8ghz nominal.

**Darkpriest667** · June 02, 2011, 01:44 AM

Originally Posted by Devilmaypoop

This is very similar to Phenom I situation with the immature 45nm process. Instead of releasing it horrible and slow, AMD is just gonna wait and release it non sucky.

This shows me they arent intel or Creative Assembly or Sega.. they'd rather release it right than release it now. At least some companies still have pride in their workmanship.

**Top-Tier-Tech** · June 02, 2011, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by Darkpriest667

This shows me they arent intel or Creative Assembly or Sega.. they'd rather release it right than release it now. At least some companies still have pride in their workmanship.

It was nice of them to deny the delay then until yesterday

AM3+ mobo's are gonna be rolling out soon but not the CPU's...

**Freddie** · June 02, 2011, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by ChaobSiroc

It was nice of them to deny the delay then until yesterday

AM3+ mobo's are gonna be rolling out soon but not the CPU's...

That's sort of similar to how the British government rolls out it's projects. In 2020 the UK will get two new state of the art aircraft carriers but due to a lack of funds they won't have any aircraft to carry.

Although its frustrating to have to wait even longer for Bulldozer AMD is doing the right thing here because their only just recovering from the damaged caused to their reputation caused by the Phenom I fiasco and it's not worth risking another PR blunder with another product launch.

There is some good news I did read some other news sites that have quoting we end of July rather then September as a release date for the FX series.

**Crazyeyesreaper** · June 02, 2011, 04:25 PM

also who cares of AM3+ boards come out in june with no chips lol. theyll stick take AM3 chips so a mobo upgrade for an AM3 user would let him / her reuse everything and just wait for BD to arrive. offers a no fuss upgrade for anyone on AM3 as a simple board swap = eventual win.

but i am rather pissed BD was delayed as i was hoping it would cause competition and price drops so i could look at both for the best bang for buck situation