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
FIGHT!:rockout:
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I trust the non-marketing results than the marketing results, anyway. There are many things that can influence results.
It funny how when Intel does this EVERYONE accepts it, but when AMD does it no one likes it, the Performance crown with be taken by AMD again, Intel fanboys are trying to mark this is not good, if friggin awesome AMD here i come again, you will see lots of people jump from intel to AMD on this mark my words!
Maybe the rest is correct, but that price I don't believe. I suspect $300 though time will tell, surely.
But anyway, I'll take a Phenom 9550 over a celeron or sempron all the way if I had the chance to.
The other day I updated a friends rig, he is broke so we spent the least amount of money EVER. I just did that, I dropped in a Phenom 9550 X4 (I particulary own the same model, but mine isn't for sale) and we even had the chance to sold the old sempron he had. A huge difference in performance, noticeable from the beginning to the end. mobo was AM2/AM2+ compatible, that helped.
The i5-2500k is just as good a value, the key difference is that it has been out for over 9 months now, and we're still not sure Bulldozer really is going to be out 2nd week of October. (10/12 or 10/15 are the 2 dates I heard). Once SB came out, nobody even gave the 9x0x CPU's a glance. The reason AMD compared the price, is because if they had done the i5-2500k the difference in price would have been -$25 - $25. Doesn't exactly seem impressive that their new product would only be on par in terms of cost and performance does it?Well when was the last time AMD had the performance crown? Pre-Core2 series which was about 5-6 years ago. Nobody denies that (here at least), so I'm not sure who you're talking about. I'm not a fanboy in the slightest, but it's not exactly inaccurate to say Phenom I was a bust and AMD hasn't offered a competative Enthusiast product for quite some time. The last real one I can remember was the Athlon 64 FX-series CPU's. Granted those were $1200 CPU's at the time, they were also Single-Cores that outperformed the first Dual-Cores.
As for the people jumping ship claim; People said the same thing about SB too, that it would be too expensive, it was only a slight upgrade, it wasn't going to be that good. The result? I recall Intel posting record profits off SB sales. No matter which company you favor, you cannot deny SB hit the sweet spot everyone wanted. It offered top-notch performance, and cost 1/3-1/2 what similar performing products cost. Everyone won with that.
And seriously, relax, these are just pieces or silicon.
But uhh, good job with the fanboy bit, you're good at it, maybe a bit too enthusiastic. :cool:
Honestly people, this is waayyy too much hate and love over this thing.
It's gratifying to see so much ethical outrage playing itself out, but really, what's the point?
You can't change it, all you can do is figuratively bang your head against the wall.
Corporations do what corporations do, which is anything that's either not outright illegal or will only result in a corporate wrist slap. It doesn't matter which perspective you look at it from, Intel or AMD, someone somewhere is fracking someone over, or causing some kind of outrage; just as in life in general.
The sad thing is this, this argument is playing itself out, in all the same ways on every damn tech site on the planet. A Win - Win proposition for both AMD and Intel. Marketing.
Epic fail.
bleh...
you need more cores AMD? to compete with 4core SB?
fix your architecture and FAST