I WISH... ;)
I go there on Biz now and then. It's a wonderful country, especially for car people.
15 percent? cīmon, in best case it is 10-15 in few optimized applications, x264, Winrar, Cinebench.
Let's not forget that this is a core revision not a node change or major architectural design change.
Intel got a whopping ~5% from both a node drop from 32nm to 22nm and a switch to trigate transistors when moving from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge, so AMD ain't doing too badly IMO if they gain ~10-15%, increase base clockspeeds and retain the same 125w TDP on the 8xxx series.
In addition if Vishera OCs like Zambezi then we're in for a good time. I'm not the least bit concerned about how much power Vishera draws, even when OC'ed. With a ~$200 price tag for the FX-8350 (in the U.S.), I expect a lot of people will be all over these chippies like white-on-rice.
Price tag is great, and THIS IS first real upgrade for Phenom II owners. First FX was not, 2nd generation is.
AMD FX-8350 "Vishera" Linux Benchmarks
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag..._vishera&num=1Quote:
For many of the Linux computational benchmarks carried out in this article, the AMD FX-8350 proved to be competitive with the Intel Core i7 3770K "Ivy Bridge" processor.
I guess for what it is and if price is good...not bad at least we're not going backwards like bulldozer was
the phoronix test really looks good... maybe i'll upgrade to win8 (with a start button tool tho), then only the software makers have to move :)
AMD's roadmap that has been out for some time shows ~15 gains with each iteration; Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator. I have no doubt that they will achieve this goal which represents a pretty healthy performance gain when it's ~15% over each prior iteration.
AMD is basically the choice for those who want the most bang-for-the-buck and/or do not want to support an unscrupulous company like Intel. Both are excellent reasons to buy AMD. Thankfully we have a choice and can vote with our wallet.
Thanks to Olikan from AT forum for the link. Yeah,it's kind of a review of 8350 :).
Odd selection of tests but Vishera does pretty good,even better when you consider it costs <200$. X264 encoding results are only lower than intel's most expensive 1K$ CPUs. In games it does well also. Power draw tests show(if done correctly) that 8350 draws similar power as FX8120 (both at stock) under full load, and considerably less in idle state. That's 20+W less than FX8150 in their chart.
edit: damn, Olivon beat me by 2 minutes :)
I am going to try and run Gentoo Linux with my FX 8350, since it will compile the entire OS with optimizations for Piledriver and every piece of software installed thats FOSS will be compiled with GCC PD optimizations. This is what PD looks like with a benchmark suite that isn't all ICC compiled crap (the *marks, Cinebench R11.5).
I do expect FX 8350 to do somewhat worse than this in Win7 benchmarks, no doubt. Does it not raise eye brows to you guys that FX 8350 demolishes 3770k at C-Ray yet loses at Cinebench? They're doing the same thing.
Yeah. That's power consumption @stock and a 5GHz screen with 1.45v applied on BIOS. Max boot was 5.2GHz during their test.
20watts less at stock looks good, maybe after OC its going to be on par with phenom II OC.
No big changes in perf in any tests tho, where it was good its slightly better, when it was bad its slightly less bad :-/.
Im really hoping it isnt such a power hog after OC, 5ghz stable with a reasonably high power consumption should be ok performance wise.
It still isnt all round better than ancient phenom II`s tho.Eh.
Any confirmation from AMD if AM3+ is going to get steamroller upgrade ?
Listed @ NewEgg $219.99... :D
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ssors-Desktops
Hopefully Micro-Center will have them tomorrow too!
according to this AMD slide the 8350 should be priced at $195.00
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2278251