Conclusions
Well folks..that conclude’s my small review on the FX-8150. The CPU is a mixed bag.AMD took a big chance with it and reinvented the wheel with the FX.In the end,it loses in some places,it wins in some places.It wins where it matters , real world performance and it competes nicely with its slated competitor 2500K. So as far as the real world performance goes..its a winner.
NOW , coming to AMD’s main winning formula value for money. Its not priced to topple I7 2600K @ $330;2600K still remains the king of the hill mainstream chip.The Fx-8150 priced at around $260 is an completely unlocked chip and looking at the performance numbers the FX is a clear winner against the I5 2500K priced at around $230.the $30 difference is well worth the money in my opinion.
From an overclockers point of view the CHIP is golden..clocks like a madman..goes places where no sandybridge can go in term of raw cpu power.
In my defense i quote a few CPU frequency submissions from HWBOT :
1) 2600K :
6044.28 MHz
CPU-Z Validator 3.1
2) 2500K :
6009.91 MHz
CPU-Z Validator 3.1
3) FX-8150 :
8585.05 MHz
CPU-Z Validator 3.1
Clocking this chip under air is also fun.much more exciting then Intel sandybridge but maybe that’s just me.
So in the END the FX-8150 gets an “approved” stamp from me and the OCF team.
-Regards ,
Sumon Pathak
well,i had a detailed discussion about why Bulldozer performance was low due to the thread schedulers incapability in Windows Seven and he agreed to explain all in one small article for the readers.
So guys,please read this excellent article by cilus aka Suryasis in ther link given below:
Originally Posted by CilusLet’s consider a Dual module based Bulldozer processor, say FX4100. We have two modules here: M1 and M2. M1 has two integer cores, say C1 and C2 and one Floating Point Core, say F1. Similarly consider M2 has two integer cores C3 and C4 and F2 as the Floating point unit.
In Windows 7 there is no existence of M1 and M2 and it sees four completely independent cores, C1, C2, C3 and C4. It is also not aware about the presence of only two floating point execution units instead of four.
