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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
Abstract: During that period, new operating systems with improved thread schedulers will come along and there will be a chance to see how the next generation 'Piledriver' update of the Bulldozer fixes any initial issues. Bulldozer's architectural premise that ...
Based on the tests we've conducted, the only end-users who could benefit from the new AMD chip are PC professionals that deal with sophisticated audio and video encoding, rendering, virtualization, and/or heavy workstation/server loads which max out C...
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Published: 2011-10-19, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
Abstract: You probably know this by now, since it seems pretty much everyone has read our initial review of AMD's FX-8150 processors, but the "Bulldozer" architecture on which the FX chips are based is a "speed demon"—a CPU designed to run naturally at high clock f...
Abstract: AMD's Bulldozer processor architecture has been in the works for many years and has been delayed many times, causing all sorts of speculations. The "Zambezi" FX processor is one part of the Scorpius platform which combines the "world's first consumer...
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Published: 2011-10-14, Author: James , review by: futurelooks.com
I am honestly not sure what to make of the FX-8150. I did not really lose or gain any performance in games. While this is disheartening, such is not the case with Sandra 2011. In every benchmark I ran in Sandra, with the exception of the SHA-256 results,...
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 Single Threaded Apps Not On Par With Multithreaded, Gold, Discuss this review in our forums
It’s been a long wait for Bulldozer’s arrival, with the date being pushed back again and again. Naturally, that had me going in looking for the flaw that kept it from coming to market on any of the previous announced release dates. Was the architectur...
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Published: 2011-10-12, Author: Nick , review by: icrontic.com
Bulldozer is the culmination of five years of effort and considerable heartache for AMD. They had a solid lead on Intel with the Athlon 64, but steadily lost momentum to Intel’s aggressive Tick Tock strategy over the ensuing half decade. AMD seemed to...
In many cases, AMD's FX-8150 is able to close the gap between the Phenom II X6 and Intel's Core i5 2500K. Given the right workload, Bulldozer is actually able to hang with Intel's fastest Sandy Bridge parts. We finally have a high-end AMD CPU with power g...
Breaking down our benchmark results we find that the AMD FX-8150 offers huge performance improvements over the Phenom II range when testing with Excel 2010, while it matched the Core i5-2500K and Core i7 920 processors. Our custom WinRAR benchmark als...
Honestly, AMD's Bulldozer didn't turn out as impressive as it sounded. In many applications, it is barely better than the Phenom II X6 1100T, and in a few others it's actually worse. However, these applications either weren't highly multi-threaded, or ...
