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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LINK:
www.tweaktown.com/news/20887/amd_fx_8150_to_take_on_core_i7_980x_and_2600k_pushes_them_up_against_a_wall_and_mugs_them_of_their_price_performance_crown/result.html
Besides, it should be more important than whether to buy Dozer or wait for Piledriver: wait & buy rev. C0 FX-8150; unless PileDriver actually is rev. C0. If there is a slight chance there will be rev. C0 FX-8150 right or soon after rev. B2 - dream. :toast:
To link it to your line of thought, think about this: If Piledriver is going to be 10% faster than Bulldozer, which BD cpu are they talking about, the 8150 or 8170? Then link that to reports of the 8170 being either, 1) up to 10% faster than the 8150, or 2) simply 200Mhz faster than the 8150.
Either way, the purported Piledriver performance increase may be on top of the 8150-to-8170 purported performance increase.
Conjecture: FX-8150 + 200Mhz? + 10% performance = stock Piledriver?:cool:
[That would be ~16% stock performance increase over a stock FX-8150, if true.]
It includes the AMD FX 8150 with a Crosshair V Formula along with a nice 16GB of DDR3-1866 G-Skill RipJaw or what ever they call it:D
www.nordichardware.com/news/69-cpu-chipset/44315-microcenter-confirms-amd-bulldozer-fx-series-launch-date.html
www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/AMD-Bulldozer-FX-CPUs-dated-October-12th-Shhh
Sorry, had to. :p
6 more days! :rockout:
U had 2 have that one saved just waiting for someone to use that line
www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220590/AMD_s_first_eight_core_desktop_processors_detailed Oct 5 2011But...More wait?
Check the bottom of those slides. They say October 12th. Do you really think that AMD is going to commend on something that is under NDA? Reason demands a no answer.
Also note this image
Notice that the FX and i7 parts are switched from this slide
It appears as though someone took official slides and modified them so as to "look" official with the i7 being more on top.