AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer CPU Review

Stefan Mileschin · 12th October 2011, 06:21

It has been a while since AMD has revamped their CPU lineup. New Graphics Cards are introduced on a regular basis, though mostly their silicon motherboard processor variants are not. Mostly a brand new breed of CPUs goes hand in hand with the launch of a new CPU socket. And if the end user is really unlucky the RAM and CPU cooler need a swap too. It has been over 18 months since AMD introduced their hexacore Thuban CPU. So it was about time to give an answer to Intels SandyBridge lineup. Or why not even aim for Intels high end socket 1366 Gulftown lineup. With every new CPU release, speculations rule the various forums. How the design is gonna be, performance expectations, die size, TDP,.. you name it and has been dealt with on the tech sites. On the 12th of October AMDs new born CPU core baptized Zambezi, for the desktop PCs and for the servers Interlagos and Valencia will see the daylight. Let's open the press kit.

http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/ar...zer-CPU-review

petervandamned · 12th October 2011, 07:31

Nice one

U did a great job bro !

Teemto · 12th October 2011, 16:21

Nice review. But still I feel FX is a dissapointment as I was hoping for it being at least on par with the 2600K.

Now the question arrizes:

What do I choose as next shrimp bench setup

:

1. Keep current Asus Z68 Gene-Z with
a) better 2600K (should ask for a Tones binning day

)
b) new 2700K (and hope for the best)

2. Wait for Sandy Bridge-E (most costly upgrade -> wife factor comes into play

)

3. Formula V + FX-8150 (hoping that with my new cascade I can manage a stable 5.5+GHz system). It'll look nice but will it be an improvement over my current 5.3 sandy bridge? I have my doubts...

leeghoofd · 12th October 2011, 18:45

I sold your CPU btw today... so something better is on the way if you are game...

For benching sorry but this CPU is only good at CPU-Z... it's a nice game platform or encoding machine as long as the apps support it. for benching plz look elsewhere...

14th October 2011, 16:11

Nice NB overclocking test but you should really have high speed memory in there to see a bigger difference. I'm pretty sure PC1280 is a bottleneck at that OC.

12th October 2011, 06:21	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,408	AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer CPU Review It has been a while since AMD has revamped their CPU lineup. New Graphics Cards are introduced on a regular basis, though mostly their silicon motherboard processor variants are not. Mostly a brand new breed of CPUs goes hand in hand with the launch of a new CPU socket. And if the end user is really unlucky the RAM and CPU cooler need a swap too. It has been over 18 months since AMD introduced their hexacore Thuban CPU. So it was about time to give an answer to Intels SandyBridge lineup. Or why not even aim for Intels high end socket 1366 Gulftown lineup. With every new CPU release, speculations rule the various forums. How the design is gonna be, performance expectations, die size, TDP,.. you name it and has been dealt with on the tech sites. On the 12th of October AMDs new born CPU core baptized Zambezi, for the desktop PCs and for the servers Interlagos and Valencia will see the daylight. Let's open the press kit. http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/ar...zer-CPU-review

12th October 2011, 07:31	#2
petervandamned [M] Reviewer Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 479	Nice one U did a great job bro ! __________________

12th October 2011, 16:21	#3
Teemto Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Duffel Posts: 542	Nice review. But still I feel FX is a dissapointment as I was hoping for it being at least on par with the 2600K. Now the question arrizes: What do I choose as next shrimp bench setup : 1. Keep current Asus Z68 Gene-Z with a) better 2600K (should ask for a Tones binning day ) b) new 2700K (and hope for the best) 2. Wait for Sandy Bridge-E (most costly upgrade -> wife factor comes into play ) 3. Formula V + FX-8150 (hoping that with my new cascade I can manage a stable 5.5+GHz system). It'll look nice but will it be an improvement over my current 5.3 sandy bridge? I have my doubts... __________________ 1999 First home made PC: Celeron 500 * Abit BE6 * Diamond Viper v770 32MB Quantum Fireball KA 18GB ATA-66 64MB SDRAM * Philips 107SX 17" * 50x CD-ROM * Win98

12th October 2011, 18:45	#4
leeghoofd [M] Reviewer Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 3,209	I sold your CPU btw today... so something better is on the way if you are game... For benching sorry but this CPU is only good at CPU-Z... it's a nice game platform or encoding machine as long as the apps support it. for benching plz look elsewhere... __________________

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14th October 2011, 16:11	#5
larkin Posts: n/a	Nice NB overclocking test but you should really have high speed memory in there to see a bigger difference. I'm pretty sure PC1280 is a bottleneck at that OC.