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
but they are pretty much the only review site beside johnny guru that did decent PSU review let alone OVERLOADING psu to see what there truly capable of
basically put
Hardware secrets is far more trust worthy then Toms Hardware lol put it that way. and everyone loves to quote Toms lolz
So, disable 1 core per module to create a quad-core which you can overclock higher. A quad core which would not have the scheduling problems.
That's interesting... but what you basically get is Phenom II 980 stock performance with more overclock ceiling, which is not bad, especially for gaming. And then you still have the other cores available to play around with configs, if you choose.
An interesting way to look at it, but not at initial release prices unless the idea takes hold of you as a 'must have'.
I hope anyway.
I really still want an official TPU review before I pass final judgement though.
Anyhow there's still some performance hope in Bulldozer afterall :D
But yeah, it makes for an interesting proposition, but only as an upgrade from an x4 Phenom, just as the fully enabled 4 'module' chip is only a decent buy as an upgrade from an x4 Phenom.
www.tweaktown.com/articles/4353/amd_fx_8150_vs_intel_i7_2600k_crossfirex_hd_6970_x3_head_to_head/index1.html