AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer finally tested

[BababooeyHTJ]

So what? For CPU testing, canned benchmarks are a MUST in order to achieve accurate repeatability. If not, the results are all over the place. In GPU testing, walkthroughs can be done since the entire point is finding where the GPU bottleneck is.

If you can prove to me that another method is as accurate, I'm all ears.

I don't know my results were pretty repeatable by just walking around in a cpu limited game like Fallout New Vegas. For each test I just loaded up the same area three times, five if there were any inconsistencies. I just loaded up the area outside of Vault 3 and shot up some baddies. For GTA4 I just drove around for around the same amount of time for the same amount of time for each test. In Serious Sam HD I just loaded up the beginning of Oasis and killed a few baddies until I got to a certain point. In Crysis I just loaded up First light and played until I hit a loading point. All of the results were with in a few fps of each other and I saw some scaling. Sadly I did not save my fraps log.

Actually here is what I saw when I ran through Oasis with a stock i7 860 and a 6870

SSHD Oasis

2010-12-28 15:32:24 - SamHD
Frames: 14888 - Time: 214669ms - Avg: 69.353 - Min: 43 - Max: 116

2010-12-28 15:36:08 - SamHD
Frames: 14306 - Time: 204958ms - Avg: 69.800 - Min: 37 - Max: 118

2010-12-28 15:39:43 - SamHD
Frames: 14809 - Time: 212689ms - Avg: 69.627 - Min: 46 - Max: 122

Here is the same system but with the i7 860 set to just 3.6ghz.

2010-12-31 13:37:21 - SamHD Oasis
Frames: 21079 - Time: 210863ms - Avg: 99.965 - Min: 60 - Max: 158

Sadly these are the only runs that I saved from the fraps log. I can do a few stock vs overclocked benchmarks on my current cpu and post the fraps log. Generally when there are discrepancies like with the minimum frame rate they translate to the other tests as well so the difference between your best and worst runs for each cpu will be about the same. Obviously trying to do that in a game or area thats not cpu limited in anyway is just going to make it look like the results are all over the place.

Something like that would be nice to supplement the canned benchmarks. Plus actually using known cpu limited games would be nice. A high end video card would also be nice to see. I mean at least a GTX570.