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The editors liked
Incredible Multi Threaded Performance
Excellent Price/Performance Ratio
Smooth Working Turbo Core For Speed Boost
Dual Turbo Modes For Increased Boost In Lightly Threaded Apps
Maintains Excellent Temps At Stock Speeds
Black Edition With Unlocked Multiplier
Eight Physical Cores
Easily Achieves High Overclocks
Excellent OC Performance Scaling
Easily Tweaked With AOD For Maximum Performan
Performance in highly threaded programs
Overclocking
Good MT Performance
8-Cores
32nm Process
Fairly Overclockable
Affordably Priced
Excellent multithreaded performance
Attractive price
Unlocked multiplier for simplified overclocking
First consumer eightcore processor
Officially supports 4GHzplus turbo speeds and DDR31866 memory
An FX system has 42 PCIE lanes as opposed to the 24 lanes of a Sandy Bridge system
990FX chipset supports NVIDIA SLI. Finally
AMD finally has a 32nm processor with good overclocking
Modular and versatile architecture
Great performance in multithreaded applications
Great overclocking potential
Eight-core processing for under $250
Speedy for the price with multi-threaded software
Unlocked for overclocking
The editors didn't like
Performance In Single Threaded Apps Not On Par With Multithreaded
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Single core performance
Consumed More Power Than 45nm Phenom II
Intel Still Offers Better Overall Performance and Power
Questionable Single Thread Performance
Not always faster than competing Intel or AMD CPUs
Sluggish with multi-threaded workloads
High power usage under load
No integrated graphics
May require new motherboard
Windows 8 required for some features
Requires a new Socket AM3 motherboard
Single core performance has remained static
Full performance requires Windows 8 system and applications that use its new instructions
Overall similar performance to Core i5 2500K
But at a higher price
General performance below expectations
And rival products
High power consumption under load
Compared to Intel's chips
Not the best choice for hardcore gamers
Slower than cheaper chips in tests with single-threaded apps
New processor architectures don’t come round all that often and there was a great deal of excitement in anticipation of Bulldozer. Breaking with the traditional vision of cores, its CMT architecture was indeed promising on paper but its integration wit...
Performance in highly threaded programs, Overclocking
Single core performance
This is the first time we've had the chance to put the new architecture to test and unfortunately it turned out to be a bit of a let-down. In multi-threaded applications the performance is good, and the chip does overclock very nicely, but for average...
Abstract: While Turbo Core did not help the Unigine Tropics frame-rate, the CPU was left running much warmer. In addition, the overall system power consumption was up. In this brief look at Cool 'n' Quiet and Turbo Core 2.0 for AMD's latest-generation Bulldoze...
Abstract: GCC 4.6 and 4.7 had regressed with GraphicsMagick when setting the first-generation Bulldozer optimizations while the Open64 performance was not affected. However, when enabling the highest optimization level with bdver1, the regression was erased. ...
While we don't want to give the impression that the i7-3930K is a slow CPU for consumer applications and games, it isn't significantly faster than the Core i7-2600K. This is a problem for Intel, as the i7-3930K is almost exactly double the price; LGA20...
Published: 2011-11-07, Author: Carl , review by: HardCOREware.net
Due to issues with customs/logistics (no fault of AMD's), we're a bit late with our Bulldozer review. I suppose that is fitting in this case, but luckily, this gives us the chance to take a bit more time with the review, testing the Bulldozer CPU under it...
Abstract: We’ve been presenting a lot of new AMD products lately. APUs are slowly descending into the mainstream, and the very philosophy of using the PC has changed together with user needs. Making a brute-force CPU isn’t all that hard to do, but the balance of...
In every game we played so far between the AMD FX-8150 and Intel 2500K, not once did the AMD FX-8150 come out on top with a dual or triple-GPU configuration. Even when performance was "similar," the Intel CPU still held a certain percentage of performance...
Abstract: AMD's Open64 compiler had a setback in the Apache web-server performance compared to the rest. The MAFFT performance was not too interesting except for LLVM/Clang lagging behind the other compilers. AMD's Open64 compiler tends to noticeably increase ...
Abstract: New Benchmarks First up some newer benchmarks tested on the Asus Crosshair V (Bios 9911) for the AMD CPUs and for the 2600K on the ASUS P67 Dlx and finally the i7 990X on the Asus Rampage 3 Extreme. Common parts used where : Corsair Dominator PC12800C...
