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
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Maybe intel will take the world record from AMD, under LN2 or LHe.
Anyway it's been a long time since AMD had something good which is why we are all hoping for a nice Bulldozer success...
IMO BD is just being hyped to death. people will have such high expectations of the CPU then when it fails to live up to those expectations then people will start with the hating and trolling again. Its a vicious circle.
I will withhold my own judgement about BD until i see some solid reviews
We need to switch what we're reading.
But i agree untill we see 4 to 16 core video cards you probably still have more then enough with current X8-16 slots ( all fastests 2 core video cards do fine in a X8 slot ) in most cases the cpu are being held resposable for the bottleneck
I have no reason to believe that any change will happen anytime soon, tell me if you have proof other wise
This thread goes back and forth with false and asumed info, i still wait till i see the real deal and then decide which brand is going to deliver my new pc.
For me just a good performing / good priced system is what is my choice, and i like it to do well on scientific/heavy calculations ( a must for me personally)
And ofcourse i would like it not cost me a arm and leg.
I am sure Bulldozer will be quite competitive vs. Intel's CPU's. Isn't this what we want? To keep the competition and choice vibrant.
I think people forget the FACT Bulldozer is a dam complex design, one is hoping AMD can get this thing running the way it was meant to run like. If it does, AMD has a real winner, something that may once again release the ferocious beast within Intel and force them to further innovate.
No BulldoZr for U and me :p
S|A newsPersonally on this matter I would trust Charlie over Anandtech. Also Anandtech questioning BD is their opinion and not based on anything they proclaim to know or AMD statements.
This will ease the costs of the llano, without making much significant cost addition to the bulldozer.
You guys must also keep in mind that the Phenom II prices have really plummeted. This shows that after Bulldozer comes out, AMD knows, the existing phenoms wont stand a chance in the market. thats why i think AMD lowered prices and want to emty their stock as fast as they can.
I REALLY REALLY regret buying my Phenom II X4 945 last year at 180$ :(
if i waited i could have gotten a good x6 now :(
:nutkick: heheheh
That doesn't make any sense. The reason AMD had to lower the price on Phenom II's is to keep their Cost\Performance ratio on par for stuff like Sandy Bridge. It has nothing to do with Bulldozer really. AMD knows their best bet is to tackle the Best Value, so they lowered the price so the Cost\Performance was competitive. Nobody wants to pay the same price for an AMD CPU that performs 30% worse than an Intel CPU of the same price. Ergo, they lower the price so people still buy their CPU, and most likely buy a better GPU from them as well. Business 101. Phenom II's price dropping had NOTHING to do with Bulldozer being good.
AMD Cancels Next-Gen Komodo Processor, Corona Platform in Favour of New Chips.
AMD's Readies Vishera CPUs, Volan Platform as Next-Gen Desktop
So Socket AM3+ lives on in 2012 with nice super fast Piledriver 8 and 10 Core CPU's... Good move AMD IMO.
LINK:
www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20110906193303_AMD_Cancels_Next_Gen_Komodo_Processor_Corona_Platform_in_Favour_of_New_Chips.html
So Vishera is AM3+ PD and Komodo was FM2 PD then. I had those two mixed up.