The Bulldozer reviews for AMD’s new flagship CPU for desktops were underwhelming at best. Even with eight cores the chip struggled against the mere four cores of Intel’s bruteforce monsters. But what if the chips aren’t really tuned for desktop workloads? What if they’re better server chips? Anandtech asks just that question in their new review of the Bulldozer chip for servers and the results are surprising. It looks like AMD heavily tuned their chips for fully virtualized loads, a smart move considering just about every major company out there is swiftly moving everything to converged datacenters, consolidating down from dozens of sprawling DCs into a few cloud DCs. Check out the Bulldozer for servers full review here. Also check out this Info World article on the Bulldozer chip being designed for virt workloads.
Bulldozer Chip Reviews for Servers: Can AMD Step Up Its Game?
