AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer finally tested

[roki977]

640K ought to be enough for anybody
- Bill Gates

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- Ken Olsen

I can name at LEAST five current games that perform like junk unless a high speed 4 core (or preferably higher) processor is used:

- Shogun 2
- Dirt 3 / F1 2011 with more than 5 cars racing
- Battlefield 3
- Civilization V

There are plenty more out there and the trend for better AI processing is more cores + higher speed = better.

You are wrong about BF3.
i2100 is just enough and only few % difference against 2600k. BF3 uses HT very well on i3 and usage is round 70-80% per thread, 35 - 50% on 2600k. But in general you are right. There are few good games that need 4 cores or even 4 1156 cores at least to go like they suppose to. SB is superior gaming CPU and BD will have hard task in gaming against SBs for sure, even in high resolutions and aa and stuff.

Lab501 thank you for preview. I like it very much and choice of benchmarks is very good for my taste. Dont see much of overclocking haven in BD expect very high clock but i dont care because 4.5ghz 2600k is still faster in many things than 7ghz fx or 8 and 5.6ghz will probably destroy it everywhere..