Our Benchmark Reults
Since the processor is a direct competitor (price wise) to a i5 2500k I will be comparing it with a Core i5 2500k.
Details of the test systems:
| CPU | FX-8150 | i5 2500k |
| Stock/Turbo(GHZ) | 3.6/4.2 | 3.3/3.7 |
| Motherboard | Asus Crosshair v Formula | Asus P8Z68 Deluxe |
| Ram | Gskill Ripjaws X | Gskill Ripjaws X |
| GPU | Radeon HD 6870[Stock freqeuncy] | Radeon HD 6870[Stock frequency] |
stock test were done three times and the average was taken into account;the overclocked test(if any) were run only once. Now lets continue to the benchmarks…shall we?? The graphs you see below are made relative to the FX-8150’s performance.
1) AIDA64 CPU SUITE , AIDA64 FPU SUITE (higher is better) :
These tests were run only at stock to give a comparison of how the chips perform under various testing conditions. Seems like AMD’s positioning of this chip against 2500K was right. Both the chips trade blows throughout the CPU tests. FPU tests Doesn’t look right..isn’t? well…although its pretty much keeping up with the competition..if there had been 8 separate FPU cores..it would have killed the 2500K. For whatever reasons.AMD decided to go all out with the CPU cores. NOT the FPU cores.
2) Super PI and Wprime (lower is better)
Not much to say here..AMD gave up on super pi long time ago.The bench uses X86 floating point instruction set(AMD’s Achilles’ heel).so its a given AMD will not be good for Super PI.
As fro Wprime since its a multi threaded benchmark , AMD should blow 2500K out of the water…right? WRONG! AMD would say this is an older benchmark. I would say otherwise. This processor is supposed to be the epitome of multi-core performance. While it still beats its stated competition (2500K remember), benchmarks indicates it lost ground Thuban.
3D benchmarks
Well…2D was a no go…so can Bulldozer pick some point or boints as they call in the bots in 3D benchmarks? the answer is…sadly…NO! The difference is somewhat small between the 2500k and FX-8150 in 3Dmark 11(where CPU plays a very small role) and it was somewhat big in 3DMark Vantage(where CPU plays a big role)..so if i were a 3D loving guy…getting a 2500K makes more sense.
Rendering, Video Conversion and Compression
AMD’s been putting too much hype in Real World performance;they say that’s where they will shine;well,they does.FX-8150 beats the 2500K at stock in cinebench..and when overclocked kicks the daylight out 2500K! So we got a clear winner there in rendering. Lets see what it does when we add some video encoding when rendering? we put the two contenders through X264 benchmark and POV ray benchmark.
FYI pass 1 is only scanning.no encoding so no chance of seeing the performance there but if there encoding involved then AMD happily kicks the 2500K around. So, in real world use BULLDOZER is not bad..its good even..it does what its supposed to do;beat the 2500K.That’s a good thing in my books.
