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http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-bulldozer-review-amd-fx8150-tested/11
Summary of the review: Bulldozer is a FAILURE. Buy a Thuban now, or pray for Piledriver. Don't hold your breath.
I'd hardly call it a failure. It's an architecture still more suited for the server/scientific community, though hardly anyone who chooses it is going to come away disappointed. If you're using benchmarks to compare it to a Core i7 for your next purchase you're splitting hairs unless you're truely going to be doing all your work within Lightwave/Cinema 4D/some other professional app where the seconds/minutes will add up.
Bulldozer's got an interesting architecture and I'm anxious for Trinity to arrive as I think it'll appeal to myself more as it'll have plenty of computing power and what I'd expect to be an easily target-able GPU for acceleration purposes (Open-CL/other heterogeneous computing initiatives). Bulldozer's biggest problem is power consumption in my mind, and that'll improve over the life of it's process. That's a place every manufacturer is 1-2 years behind Intel unfortunately.
Well if AMD missed the mark, worse is Intel just truly sand-bagging it with Ivy Bridge. They basically impair or hobbled it this round to be able to later offer the same chips with a simple fix and a boost in clocks.
Sure AMD have not been able to provide any great punched, but they aren't putting the "fix in". Ivy Bridge is the "dud" after what Intel did to it a chip like the i5 3550 is nothing significantly better than the i5 2500K. Intel has constrained these first iteration waiting to see if Piledriver’s seriously improved. If they do Intel goes back to descent IHS paste, and a slight bump is clock all while looking like the made some significant upgrade to the silicon design. They got caught and they're hope nobody notices. Busted!
http://www.overclockers.com/ivy-bridge-temperatures
http://www.techpowerup.com/165882/TIM-is-Behind-Ivy-Bridge-Temperatures-After-All.html