piledriver pre-order pricing

[inf64]

Over at XS some real results from 8350 user(for a change). User has access to previous flagship FX8150 and 2600K as well. User is an architect that can make use of good rendering performance (as can be seen later on in real life 3dstudio max benchmarks he posts).
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Results summary:
C11.5(old engine) shows ~5% improvement vs Bulldozer version 1 (8150) at the same clock. But then user tested 3dstudio max Vray ( areal world benchmark):

But in realworld application , with the two famous 3D aplication + renderer : 3dsmax 2011 + Vray 1.5SP5 , the thing you already know seem to be stronger.

Rendering time (second): Lower is better:

• FX 8120@4.5ghz : ~ 679s
• I7 2600K@4.5ghz : ~ 621s
• The thing you already know :~ 580s

Images of all 3 benchmark runs are in one of the links above so no need to link them here again. Point is FX8350>2600K at the same clock in V-ray by 7%. At stock vs stock the difference would be higher (in favor of FX8350 of course).

Last link is X264 benchmark at 4.5Ghz (for FX8350). FX8150 was @ 5Ghz, 2600K was @ 4.9Ghz and 4.5Ghz, FX8120 @ 4.5Ghz and i7 hexa core was @ 3.57GHz.
FX8350 @ 4.5Ghz scores : the same as FX8150 @ 5Ghz (so ~10% better IPC in this case) , the same as 2600K @ 4.9Ghz, slightly better than i7 980x @ 3.57Ghz and 5% better than 2600K @ 4.5Ghz.

Edit: for the record (and to avoid 8C vs 4C posts by intel fans). FX8350 has 4 (four) dual threaded FP units,just like QC i7 do. So in all the FP/SEE intensive workloads it's actually 4 FP units (8 thread capable) Vs 4FP units (8thread capable). FX8350 has indeed 8 integer cores that share those 4 FP units, so in some pure integer workloads FX does really good with its 8 integer "cores".

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Over at XS some real results from 8350 user(for a change). User has access to previous flagship FX8150 and 2600K as well. User is an architect that can make use of good rendering performance (as can be seen later on in real life 3dstudio max benchmarks he posts).
link #1
link #2
link #3

Results summary:
C11.5(old engine) shows ~5% improvement vs Bulldozer version 1 (8150) at the same clock. But then user tested 3dstudio max Vray ( areal world benchmark):

Images of all 3 benchmark runs are in one of the links above so no need to link them here again. Point is FX8350>2600K at the same clock in V-ray by 7%. At stock vs stock the difference would be higher (in favor of FX8350 of course).

Last link is X264 benchmark at 4.5Ghz (for FX8350). FX8150 was @ 5Ghz, 2600K was @ 4.9Ghz and 4.5Ghz, FX8120 @ 4.5Ghz and i7 hexa core was @ 3.57GHz.
FX8350 @ 4.5Ghz scores : the same as FX8150 @ 5Ghz (so ~10% better IPC in this case) , the same as 2600K @ 4.9Ghz, slightly better than i7 980x @ 3.57Ghz and 5% better than 2600K @ 4.5Ghz.

Edit: for the record (and to avoid 8C vs 4C posts by intel fans). FX8350 has 4 (four) dual threaded FP units,just like QC i7 do. So in all the FP/SEE intensive workloads it's actually 4 FP units (8 thread capable) Vs 4FP units (8thread capable). FX8350 has indeed 8 integer cores that share those 4 FP units, so in some pure integer workloads FX does really good with its 8 integer "cores".

"Heavily multi-threaded software is but one part of the equation. In everything that doesn't use those "eight" cores it'll still be a dog like Bulldozer."

Oh, and it'll still likely consume a considerable amount more power than an i3, i5, or i7.

 

[Soulkeeper]

My concern is, even if piledriver is great, AM3+ will be retired without anymore upgrades.
FM1 was essentially dead on release, this kinda feels like that.

Does anyone know the AM4 release time frame ?

 

[guskline]

Is SteamRoller definitely NOT AM3+ compatible?

 

[ShintaiDK]

My concern is, even if piledriver is great, AM3+ will be retired without anymore upgrades.
FM1 was essentially dead on release, this kinda feels like that.

Does anyone know the AM4 release time frame ?

No AM4. You gonna look at FM2, FM3 etc.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Is SteamRoller definitely NOT AM3+ compatible?

There is no steamroller AM3+ CPU on AMDs roadmaps. Only for FM2.

 

[inf64]

I wonder if they ditch the AMx completely and put a next "FX" or whatever it's called on FM2 or its successor.

 

[lifeblood]

Is SteamRoller definitely NOT AM3+ compatible?

According to the roadmaps everything will be APUs except for servers. Servers will have a mix of CPUs and APUs.

It makes sense. The GPU portion is not only for graphics but heterogenous computing. In order to make that work they have to push it at all market segments.

 

[MLSCrow]

It makes sense. The GPU portion is not only for graphics but heterogenous computing. In order to make that work they have to push it at all market segments.

Agreed.