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Innovative architecture design
Very overclockable
Power efficient using Cool 'n' Quiet
Improved Turbo modes
Great overclocking
Serious multi-threading chops for less than £200
Eight cores and loads of clock speed at a reasonable price
Modern design
Elegant modular architecture
Attractive pricing
AM3socket is backwards compatible
Performance in applications makes effective use of multiple cores
Two Turbo modes
Architecture design
Multipliers are unlocked out of the box
Overclocks well
Good scaling
Faster than the Core i5 2500k
Performs exceptionally well with modern gaming engines
The editors didn't like
Weak single thread performance
Often outperformed by Phenom II
Only fast in ideal scenarios
Only slightly faster at stock than 1100T
Struggles against 2500K
And is pricier
Performance is unimpressive
And the power draw is too high.
Not as fast as Thuban (1100T) in lightload apps
Underload powerdraw not ideal
Arguably still behind Intel's SB as an allround chip
Power consumption
Performances should be higher compared with competitors' CPUs and AMD's older models
Expensive
Performance left us wanting more
UK pricing is high
Putting it head to head against Core i7 2600k
When Core i5 2500k is overclocked it is closely matched
Incredible Multi Threaded Performance, Excellent Price/Performance Ratio, Smooth Working Turbo Core For Speed Boost, Dual Turbo Modes For Increased Boost In Lightly Threaded Apps, Maintains Excellent Temps At Stock Speeds, Black Edition With Unlocked Multiplier, Eight Physical Cores, Easily Achieves High Overclocks, Excellent OC Performance Scaling, Easily Tweaked With AOD For Maximum Performan
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It’s been a long wait for Bulldozer’s arrival, with the date being pushed back again and again. Naturally, that had me going in looking for the flaw that kept it from coming to market on any of the previous announced release dates. Was the architectur...
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Published: 2011-10-12, Author: Nick , review by: icrontic.com
Bulldozer is the culmination of five years of effort and considerable heartache for AMD. They had a solid lead on Intel with the Athlon 64, but steadily lost momentum to Intel’s aggressive Tick Tock strategy over the ensuing half decade. AMD seemed to...
In many cases, AMD's FX-8150 is able to close the gap between the Phenom II X6 and Intel's Core i5 2500K. Given the right workload, Bulldozer is actually able to hang with Intel's fastest Sandy Bridge parts. We finally have a high-end AMD CPU with power g...
Breaking down our benchmark results we find that the AMD FX-8150 offers huge performance improvements over the Phenom II range when testing with Excel 2010, while it matched the Core i5-2500K and Core i7 920 processors. Our custom WinRAR benchmark als...
Honestly, AMD's Bulldozer didn't turn out as impressive as it sounded. In many applications, it is barely better than the Phenom II X6 1100T, and in a few others it's actually worse. However, these applications either weren't highly multi-threaded, or ...
time Alrighty, time to give a small overview of the previous pages : The AMD FX-8150 CPU out of the box, is not really what many might have expected. Why ? As it is hardly any better in older apps then the previous AMD Thuban lineup. I explicitly ment...
So, let’s say someone puts Core i5-2500K and FX-8150 in front of you. The Core i5 costs $220 bucks, and the FX runs $245. Which one do you buy? If it’s me, I’m going with the Core i5. I gave the -2500K a Tom’s Hardware Recommended Buy award back in Jan...
AMD has been buzzing along as of late with the release of Zacate and Llano. The new direction of the company has really been a breath of fresh air especially with the introduction of “Fusion” technology. The on-die GPU’s that support DX11 are simply gr...
It is nice and fast in your desktop environment with the many threads you can fire off at it, and if you love to compress, transcode or use your PC as a workstation, well it will offer heaps of performance and features for a fair price. The AMD FX 8150 ca...
Published: 2011-10-12, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
You've seen the performance results and probably have a sense of where things stand, but we can summarize them with more precision using one of our world-famous price-performance scatter plots. (We've omitted a few really expensive CPUs, because they ten...
