AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer finally tested

[BababooeyHTJ]

What a surprise...our results were 100% accurate (...again), the BIOS version was good, the silicone version was good, and the numbers that other got were exactly the same as anybody else.... Or, as Vr-Zone said...

That doesn't make your testing practices any less questionable. They just aren't very representative of real world performance.

It also looks like Hardware Canucks used a video card that is about as fast as the almost three year old GTX280 that they used in their sandy bridge review and a bunch of canned benchmarks in their Bulldozer review.

I do have to admit that the gaming performance being about on par with yorkfield is a bit of a surprise.

[rintamarotta]

i thought you said you had one when you posted that about beating the 2600K and 990x? were you just speaking from opinion?

I had BD Early ES but i anticipated bit more from later revisions.

[BHD]

LooL AMD Is Down




ONly INTEL

AMD BD FX = Intel Corei5 Not Corei7

[gallag]

I had BD Early ES but i anticipated bit more from later revisions.

I don't blieve you had anything, sorry.
So many people lied, so many people built the hype, so many told us to wait and that all will be well, where are these people today????????

[Monstru]

You're a legend to us Monstru, breaking rules

Please, somebody bookmark this thread, for the next time we publish a preview (probably AMD's next VGA generation )

[radier]

It is true that we have to wait for HD7000 series until Q1 2012?

[RPGWiZaRD]

Shame it turned out like this, BD was really important for AMD and I was looking forward to possibly update to such rig but with these numbers in my hand I'll have to rethink my plans.

[SKYMTL]

It also looks like Hardware Canucks used a video card that is about as fast as the almost three year old GTX280 that they used in their sandy bridge review and a bunch of canned benchmarks in their Bulldozer review.

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.

[El Mano]

So in the end BD has turned out to be a fiasco.
Very bad news for everybody

[nn_step]

So in the end BD has turned out to be a fiasco.
Very bad news for everybody

Not for everyone.

For example for several server workloads the performance has increased nicely [yay for them]

And we have all learned a few things about floating point demand in benchmarks.

Much more can be gleaned in the coming weeks as we examine further to see were the pain points were.

[Hornet331]

Yes, but powerconsumption is through the roof... Wonder if they really can go with that when perf/W is essential in server space... or they have unloaded all "bad" cores in the consumer market and the good (aka lower voltage binned) get in the server channle.

[El Mano]

Not for everyone.

For example for several server workloads the performance has increased nicely [yay for them]

And we have all learned a few things about floating point demand in benchmarks.

Much more can be gleaned in the coming weeks as we examine further to see were the pain points were.

And the extreme OC community seems to have a new toy to play with. Those LN results are impressive.
But it seems to be under performing for an enthusiast or gaming rig while too expensive for a low budget PC.

Piledriver under Windows 8 on the other hand looks really promising if the people at MS improve thread managing as they said they would.

[jimbo75]

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.

Why don't you do a review of say, the i7 920 vs the 940 BE in games now. Put that "future proofing" bull to the test? Oh, I do mean with todays fastest graphics cards at high resolution and maximum settings btw.

When those two cpu's were released the fastest card was what, the 280? So now there are cards out there more 2x-3x faster. By your logic there is no way that the 940 BE can compete with the 920 at max settings these days with such a faster card right? I mean, what's the difference between that back then and say, sli gtx 280's? You use that as an excuse to show garbage benchmarks that have no bearing on the reality. Low resolution benchmarks are a pure lie.

[nn_step]

Yes, but powerconsumption is through the roof... Wonder if they really can go with that when perf/W is essential in server space... or they have unloaded all "bad" cores in the consumer market and the good (aka lower voltage binned) get in the server channle.

Performance/ watt for those benchmarks is better than i7 [Not much but it is impressive considering]

And the extreme OC community seems to have a new toy to play with. Those LN results are impressive.
But it seems to be under performing for an enthusiast or gaming rig while too expensive for a low budget PC.

Piledriver under Windows 8 on the other hand looks really promising if the people at MS improve thread managing as they said they would.

The real question for them is what is the absolute upper limit on these things

[Kobaltrock]

Whelp, this is thing is possibly one of the worst releases this year. If current reviews are an indication.

At least we know why JF-AMD has been absent! LOL!

I am not sure he will ever show up with that nickname again, however, one reason he isn't 'here' is because of the quiet period most likely.

[highoctane]

quiet period most likely.

I think quiet period is the politically correct term to use where public discussion is concerned, internally there's probably a much more graphic term being thrown around.

[Drwho?]

Noticed that I am quiet too ;-)

I think everybody needs to cool down a little. JF-AMD is like me, passionate about what he does, if you don't believe into it, you can't put so much energy into making those Processors.
Green or Blue, we are all Geeks excited and just never forget, those Processors are the most complex machines build by human kind, at the smallest scale.

Not one man can claim to make any of this by himself, those are massive undertaking, the size of those transistors are mind blowing.

so, yes, there is competition, and yes, this architecture is not the happiest , but at least show some respect to the men who dedicated their life to build such complex machines.
It is ok to make a little fun of it, but please respect the men behind it, and get some perceptive, see how large is the achievement of putting something like Bulldozer together.

So, I am respectfully asking all of you to stay gentlemen ... No personal attack is ever acceptable.

Thanks all , stay on the high road!

Francois Piednoel

[god_43]

Noticed that I am quiet too ;-)

I think everybody needs to cool down a little. JF-AMD is like me, passionate about what he does, if you don't believe into it, you can't put so much energy into making those Processors.
Green or Blue, we are all Geeks excited and just never forget, those Processors are the most complex machines build by human kind, at the smallest scale.

Not one man can claim to make any of this by himself, those are massive undertaking, the size of those transistors are mind blowing.

so, yes, there is competition, and yes, this architecture is not the happiest , but at least show some respect to the men who dedicated their life to build such complex machines.
It is ok to make a little fun of it, but please respect the men behind it, and get some perceptive, see how large is the achievement of putting something like Bulldozer together.

So, I am respectfully asking all of you to stay gentlemen ... No personal attack is ever acceptable.

Thanks all , stay on the high road!

Francois Piednoel

....you have surprised me by your logic and grace.....well done/said!

[Hawkeye4077]

Yes, but powerconsumption is through the roof... Wonder if they really can go with that when perf/W is essential in server space... or they have unloaded all "bad" cores in the consumer market and the good (aka lower voltage binned) get in the server channle.

Quite possible. The Opteron 4284s that I am looking at are 8c @ 3ghz with 3.7ghz turbo that sit in the 75w space.

Course I wont be able to play with any of those until my deployment is over sometime next spring

Edit: Course Asus can't pull the L1N64-WS fiasco too...

[jimbo75]

Yeah no offence but you can tell more about a man by what they say about their opponents in defeat, not victory. If BD stomped all over SB, Drwho and a whole bunch of intel fanboys would never be seen on the forums again.

[G0ldBr1ck]

Noticed that I am quiet too ;-)

I think everybody needs to cool down a little. JF-AMD is like me, passionate about what he does, if you don't believe into it, you can't put so much energy into making those Processors.
Green or Blue, we are all Geeks excited and just never forget, those Processors are the most complex machines build by human kind, at the smallest scale.

Not one man can claim to make any of this by himself, those are massive undertaking, the size of those transistors are mind blowing.

so, yes, there is competition, and yes, this architecture is not the happiest , but at least show some respect to the men who dedicated their life to build such complex machines.
It is ok to make a little fun of it, but please respect the men behind it, and get some perceptive, see how large is the achievement of putting something like Bulldozer together.

So, I am respectfully asking all of you to stay gentlemen ... No personal attack is ever acceptable.

Thanks all , stay on the high road!

Francois Piednoel

Agreed. 2 billion transistors, thats just mind blowing thinking what it takes to design such a complex chip.

[Hornet331]

Right now noone is attacking him personaly or anyone at all, but people want a clarification why they got feed plain wrong information (aka lies). If your company would pulled a similar thing and you would have claimed variouse things that where plain wrong you would have to expect the same head wind as your counterpart.

[radaja]

Noticed that I am quiet too ;-)

I think everybody needs to cool down a little. JF-AMD is like me, passionate about what he does, if you don't believe into it, you can't put so much energy into making those Processors.
Green or Blue, we are all Geeks excited and just never forget, those Processors are the most complex machines build by human kind, at the smallest scale.

Not one man can claim to make any of this by himself, those are massive undertaking, the size of those transistors are mind blowing.

so, yes, there is competition, and yes, this architecture is not the happiest , but at least show some respect to the men who dedicated their life to build such complex machines.
It is ok to make a little fun of it, but please respect the men behind it, and get some perceptive, see how large is the achievement of putting something like Bulldozer together.

So, I am respectfully asking all of you to stay gentlemen ... No personal attack is ever acceptable.

Thanks all , stay on the high road!

Francois Piednoel

well said,i think many of us enthusiasts forget how mindbottling cpu arch is, because of our common use and handling of the cpu itself
it's like it loses its mystery and mistic to us it's just a thing we take out of a box and hold in our hand until we install it and bench/test/game with it.
we forget deep inside theres a whole full functioning microscopic world in there with billions and billions of things going on.

and kudos for you statement about JF-AMD,there absolutely no reason for anyone to personally attack him or anyone

[Clairvoyant129]

]It still has best multi-threaded performance[/B] but crappy at single-threaded performance.

Oh yeah, im bit too optimistic at times

Are you blind? Have you even looked at the benches? Even in heavily multi-threaded scenarios, it loses to a quad core 2600k. It won't even perform anywhere near hexa core Intel CPUs like the i7 970 or the upcoming SB-E Hexas.

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You're right about one thing, BD plain sucks in single threaded scenarios.

[Lokinhow]

how can 2 billions transistors be so SLOW?
sad, very sad day

I really hope that piledriver is not that bad...

Still don't understand why does movieman said that AMD have a winner. This is not a winner in any way you look at it

I'm sad.