Saturday, September 24th 2011
AMD FX 8150 Looks Core i7-980X and Core i7 2600K in the Eye: AMD Benchmarks
The bets are off, it looks like Intel is in for a price-performance shock with AMD's Bulldozer, after all. In the press deck of AMD FX Processor series leaked by DonanimHaber ahead of its launch, AMD claims huge performance leads over Intel. To sum it up, AMD claims that its AMD FX 8150 processor is looking Intel's Core i7-980X in the eye in game tests, even edging past it in some DirectX 11 titles.
It is performing on par with the Core i7-2600K in several popular CPU benchmarks such as WinRAR 4, X.264 pass 2, Handbrake, 7Zip, POV Ray 3.7, ABBYY OCR, wPrime 32M, and Bibble 5.0. AMD FX 8150 is claimed to be genuinely benefiting from the FMA4 instruction set that Sandy Bridge lacks, in the OCL Performance Mandelbrot test, the FX 8150 outperforms the i7-2600K by as much as 70%. Lastly, the pricing of the FX 8150 is confirmed to be around the $250 mark. Given this, and the fact that the Core i7-2600K is priced about $70 higher, Intel is in for a price-performance shock.
Source:
DonanimHaber
It is performing on par with the Core i7-2600K in several popular CPU benchmarks such as WinRAR 4, X.264 pass 2, Handbrake, 7Zip, POV Ray 3.7, ABBYY OCR, wPrime 32M, and Bibble 5.0. AMD FX 8150 is claimed to be genuinely benefiting from the FMA4 instruction set that Sandy Bridge lacks, in the OCL Performance Mandelbrot test, the FX 8150 outperforms the i7-2600K by as much as 70%. Lastly, the pricing of the FX 8150 is confirmed to be around the $250 mark. Given this, and the fact that the Core i7-2600K is priced about $70 higher, Intel is in for a price-performance shock.
854 Comments on AMD FX 8150 Looks Core i7-980X and Core i7 2600K in the Eye: AMD Benchmarks
Should you have waited or should you wait now? Yes.
Clear out old stock before pushing new stock. Business 101.
If they felt any need to release SB-E, they would have. We've been seeing board shots for months. The parts are available, they just have no reason to release them. Their only competition in the segment is themselves, and they can just wait to release to achieve both clearing out the old stock, and to sell a bunch of new stuff upon SB-E release. Best of both worlds.
The only reason they would have had to release SB-E already is if there was another competitor in that market. There isn't, therefore the need does not exist. They can sit on it as long as they want, and still pull in money on Gulftown sales, for which there is also no competitor. PII sells poorly because there ARE other competitors in it's market segment.
This is why I want AMD to compete up top. We would already have SB-E out to compare.
I have always respected you and your posts Wile E, but I really do think they would make more money by releasing it.
Look, they know more than both of us. If they felt that more money would come to them, they would have released it already.
You can sell your 1090 when BD is released and take a good chunk out of the CPU cost of Bulldozer if you want to though.
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You need t stop multi posting or a mod is going to get upset with you mart.
Go to bed and sleep your booze off ok :)