Donanimhaber FX8150 Video Review/Benchmarks!

[996GT2]

http://www.donanimhaber.com/islemci...ekirdekli-FX8150-islemcisi-video-inceleme.htm

It seems as though the poor performance in all of the leaked benches was not false after all...


Some screenshots from the video in case you don't want to go through the whole video:

Updated the title to include the site
-ViRGE

Alright guys, we're rolling this into the Official Review Thread. Please continue there.

 

[Genx87]

If this turns out to be true. It is truely baffling how they can go backwards in performance. Also explains why Dirk Meyer was forced out last year. They knew what was coming down the pipeline and it wasnt good.

 

[RussianSensation]

Phenom II X6 1090T for $160 is going to sell out. I am impressed that AMD has been able to improve performance with their brand new Phenom II architecture despite having 2 fewer cores, using 45nm technology and lower clock speeds than the now 5-year-old Bulldozer architecture. Phenom II X6 1090T is going to be unbeatable value for those who run multi-threaded apps - launch date Oct 12th!!

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At least FX8150 does better in more modern benches such as PCMark7 and 3DMark 11 vs. the 1100T.

But on a more serious note, WTH is AMD going to do when Haswell launches in 2013? I am hoping BD Next will have a huge 20-30% performance improvement.

 

[BlueBlazer]

In case of unable to view the video directly (which happened in my case), here are the direct download links >> amd_fx8150_ipad.mp4 and amd_fx8150.mp4.

There are other benchmarks like SuperPi, Cinebench R11.5, PCMark 7, Fritz Chess, 3dMark11, CPUMark 99 and AIDA64 (including FPU Julia), as well as game benchmarks too.

 

[996GT2]

In case of unable to view the video directly (which happened in my case), here is the direct download link >>> amd_fx8150.mp4.

There are other benchmarks like SuperPi, Cinebench, PC Mark, Fritz Chess, 3dMark11, CPUMark 99 and AIDA64 (including FPU Julia), as well as game benchmarks too.

I have updated the OP with screenshots from most of the benches.

 

[3DVagabond]

Phenom II X6 1090T for $160 is going to sell out. I am impressed that AMD has been able to improve performance with their brand new Phenom II architecture despite having 2 fewer cores, using 45nm technology and lower clock speeds than the now 5-year-old Bulldozer architecture. Phenom II X6 1090T is going to be unbeatable value for those who run multi-threaded apps - launch date Oct 12th!!

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On a more serious note, WTH is AMD going to do when Haswell launches in 2013? I am hoping BD Next will have a huge 20-30% performance improvement.

Well, it's over a year away. They are supposed to release new chips before then. We'll just have to wait and see if they do and what they perform like.

On the topic of this thread though, those charts are awful. I can't imagine why they would release something like this? How can their new design be slower than their 5yr old design. They can't even compete with themselves, never mind Intel.
Unless AMD has something up their sleeve the mountain of evidence is getting too deep to simply ignore. Donanimhaber is a pretty crappy source, but that doesn't mean that they never get it right.

 

[NostaSeronx]

Batman AA the distance from 199 FPS to 201 FPS IS HHUUUUUGGGGEEE

 

[996GT2]

Batman AA the distance from 199 FPS to 201 FPS IS HHUUUUUGGGGEEE

Nice try ignoring all of the other benchmarks.

 

[NostaSeronx]

Nice try ignoring all of the other benchmarks.

I saw all the benchmarks it was just that particular one 199 fps to 201 is huge

 

[996GT2]

I saw all the benchmarks it was just that particular one 199 fps to 201 is huge

At 1920x1080 those gaming benchmarks don't really show that much. It's mostly GPU-bound at those resolutions anyway.

 

[busydude]

Batman AA the distance from 199 FPS to 201 FPS IS HHUUUUUGGGGEEE

Hehe.. the results took terrible. But those graphs are equally terrible too.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Phenom II X6 1090T for $160 is going to sell out. I am impressed that AMD has been able to improve performance with their brand new Phenom II architecture despite having 2 fewer cores, using 45nm technology and lower clock speeds than the now 5-year-old Bulldozer architecture. Phenom II X6 1090T is going to be unbeatable value for those who run multi-threaded apps - launch date Oct 12th!!

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At least FX8150 does better in more modern benches such as PCMark7 and 3DMark 11 vs. the 1100T.

But on a more serious note, WTH is AMD going to do when Haswell launches in 2013? I am hoping BD Next will have a huge 20-30% performance improvement.

Yea, if my motherboard supports hex core (AM2+ I got my money out of this thing!) that might be the best route for an inexpensive upgrade. But, it's still $160 for two more cores that will hardly ever be used and the hope of a few hundred more MHz. Maybe I'll own my first Intel desktop processor since the 486 days. Decisions, decisions...

 

[smartpatrol]

There have been a few instances where a flawed designed was later redeemed:

Radeon HD2000 -> HD3000
Phenom -> Phenom II
GTX400 -> GTX500

Hopefully AMD manages to make something good out of this turkey at some point.

 

[NostaSeronx]

There have been a few instances where a flawed designed was later redeemed:

Radeon HD2000 -> HD3000
Phenom -> Phenom II
GTX400 -> GTX500

Hopefully AMD manages to make something good out of this turkey at some point.

Lets hope

FX -> FX Next

fixes this awful problem

 

[996GT2]

There have been a few instances where a flawed designed was later redeemed:

Radeon HD2000 -> HD3000
Phenom -> Phenom II
GTX400 -> GTX500

Hopefully AMD manages to make something good out of this turkey at some point.

Pentium 4 --> Conroe?











Kidding, I know that was a completely new microarch.

 

[sonoran]

Hehe.. the results took terrible. But those graphs are equally terrible too.

Yeah, some of the graphs make the difference look huge, when in fact it's quite small in several cases, because the graph doesn't start a zero.

 

[nonameo]

*sigh*

someone just buy AMD already. Market cap is less than 4B.

 

[StinkyPinky]

They may have even gone backwards

How is that possible??

 

[HNNstyle]

My next CPU will probably be an i7.

 

[BlueBlazer]

These benchmarks are supposed to be AVX and FMA4 aware.......

Core i7 2600K is 47.6% to 54.8% faster than FX-8150, somehow either AVX or FMA4 on Bulldozer is borked? :hmm:

From AIDA64 Extreme Edition - Benchmarks.......

FPU Julia Benchmark
This benchmark measures the single precision (also known as 32-bit) floating-point performance through the computation of several frames of the popular "Julia" fractal. The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly, and it is extremely optimized for every popular AMD, Intel and VIA processor core variants by utilizing the appropriate x87, 3DNow!, 3DNow!+, SSE, AVX or FMA4 instruction set extension. FPU Julia test is HyperThreading, multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core (CMP) aware.

FPU Mandel Benchmark
This benchmark measures the double precision (also known as 64-bit) floating-point performance through the computation of several frames of the popular "Mandelbrot" fractal. The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly, and it is extremely optimized for every popular AMD, Intel and VIA processor core variants by utilizing the appropriate x87, SSE2, AVX or FMA4 instruction set extension. FPU Mandel test is HyperThreading, multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core (CMP) aware.

 

[drizek]

They should just make an FX 1100T and get it over with.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Yeah, some of the graphs make the difference look huge, when in fact it's quite small in several cases, because the graph doesn't start a zero.

That still doesn't excuse the new flagship losing benchmarks to the "last-gen" 1100T. It should had been worst case as fast as 1100T, period.

 

[NostaSeronx]

These benchmarks are supposed to be AVX and FMA4 aware.......

Core i7 2600K is 47.6% to 54.8% faster than FX-8150, somehow either AVX or FMA4 on Bulldozer is borked? :hmm:

From AIDA64 Extreme Edition - Benchmarks.......

I'm shocked that it evens get near 1100T but passmark has shown this already(1100T is slightly better at it than FX)

 

[996GT2]

I'm shocked that it evens get near 1100T but passmark has shown this already(1100T is slightly better at it than FX)

Microcenter's pricing will be $279.99 @ launch for the FX-8150 according to someone on OCN who leaked the official MC pricing data.

If it performs worse than an 1100T, AMD is going to have to drop the price A LOT to be competitive...

 

[NostaSeronx]

Microcenter's pricing will be $279.99 @ launch for the FX-8150 according to someone on OCN who leaked the official MC pricing data.

If it performs worse than an 1100T, AMD is going to have to drop the price A LOT to be competitive...

Surprising 1090T and 1100T both launched at $289.99 and $299.99 respectively

but had $100 off sales on most of the websites