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.
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Ah yes microstutter, just read about it in techreport recently
Originally, AMD was saying that BD chips would use HyperTransport 3.1 (6400MT/s).
According to the Tom's hardware link I gave in my last post, the models slated for first release are using HyperTransport 3.0 (5200MT/s). And current AM3+ boards only support up to HT 3.0. It can't be because the technology is not available for the boards.
So, maybe the BD cpus with HT 3.1 support are Q1 or Q2 2012 -- meaning the FX-8170, FX-4170, etc.
An improved IMC?
This puts into perspective the mysterious MSI comments communicated to springs113 about new boards coming in the new year.
And PCI-E 3.0?
Just speculation.
All I want is a competitive BD and my 7980 I'll be good for atleast 3 more years
All my amd's run cooler then the intel counterparts, you should try to run GIMPS on your so called 8 cores and then come back and tell me what the real performance of your so called cores is....... Indeed 4 times a joke.
In fact programs which search for the biggest primes and such (scientific work) benefit from and are in fact most of the time faster on amd machines.
Its HT not a core at all you just try to run another thread (program) on a fake cpu.
The way amd has made the module even though some parts are shared they look to me are real cores for programs, but untill i have one for testing here i can not say if its a good solution when it comes to the programs which i use.
Believe me they stress the real cpu cores at their max, like furmark does on your videocard.
As i do want them lazy cpu's to work :D
Ofcourse intels new toy is not bad, but intel does use tricks to improve performance often.
For instance when you watch bluray in full hd the intel solution skips frames to speed up the visual appearance while amd really does show all frames and not skip them, yes its hard to see cause most people will not see it only people like me see the flikkering as i see with tl lights.
Still its just cheating the big mass who do not notice it directly
obrovsky.blogspot.com/2011/09/amd-fx-vs-p-ii-x6-clock-clock.html
It's just silly, BD has higher IPC and higher clock which leads to higher performance.
So don't worry, it will be a nice upgrade.
As PII x6 should get a price cut after bulldozer is out
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