Microsoft patches Bulldozer’s performance — we investigate

Courtesy Extremetech  Thu, 01/12/2012 - 15:29

When AMD launched Bulldozer back in October, the company claimed that problems with Windows 7 thread scheduler prevented the CPU from delivering peak performance .

According to AMD, Windows 7 didn’t accurately understand how best to schedule threads to take advantage of the company’s shared architecture, and as a result “there are possibilities where opportunities for resource sharing or activate [sic] higher Turbo Core frequencies are missed.”

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