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AMD FX-Series CPUs pack quite a punch?

by Navin Maini on 26 September 2011, 15:25

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Amidst launch date suggestions and pricing rumours, you may be wondering how AMD is expecting its FX-Series CPUs to square-off, against Intel's line-up.

 

 

The slide above, apparently taken from an AMD Press Pack, shows that the company's flagship 8-core FX-8150 CPU looks set to spar well with Intel's Core i7-980X, in gaming tests. Though we're not made aware of other system information, the FX-8150 seemingly keeps up with the Core i7-980X, and in some cases, does a little better.

 

 

The next slide demonstrates the performance benefits derived with multithreaded applications. AMD's examples show an FX-Series CPU, up against Intel's Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K.

 

 

Last, there's that price-to-performance argument. Here AMD throws some numbers around, and claims that an FX-8150 based system has a price advantage of up to $800 US Dollars, against the cost of a comparable Core i7-980X powered system.

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Posted by kalniel - Mon 26 Sep 2011 15:30
Because of course the i7-980X is the gamer chip of choice for performance/price.. Come on AMD, you can do better than that nVidia-esque spin.

PS, please mention your sources Hexus. This is a news item after all.
Posted by MSIC - Mon 26 Sep 2011 16:12
I agree that it's clearly spun to favour AMD, but then it is their marketing so they are entitled to.
Lets wait for the reviews to start coming in first.

I know a certain moose-themed individual who will soon have to change his phrase of “lets wait for Bulldozer to come out” :)

For me, i'm quite excited about all of this - i have a fond recollection of when AMD came out with 64 bit extensions, was kicking Intel's netburst architecture where it hurt, and it thoroughly benefited us all as consumers… seems like too long ago now :(
Posted by badass - Mon 26 Sep 2011 17:17
It seems they've taken the i7-980x - a chip that has monster performance once more than 4 threads are involved, but in single/dual ish threaded performance, substantially slower than the current Sandy bridge CPU's and compared their Chip to this in single/dual threaded performance.

They have then taken their chip with more cores and compared it to Sandy bridge in benchmarks that benefit from more cores.

Looks like bulldozer won't be taking any performance crowns from any high end intel chips or they would have chosen fair and representative tests.
Posted by Noxvayl - Mon 26 Sep 2011 17:59
AMD's last launch wasn't able to release results like these, skewed or not. At least, according to reports, we have something from AMD worth considering when purchasing a high end CPU.
Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH - Mon 26 Sep 2011 18:41
MSIC
I know a certain moose-themed individual who will soon have to change his phrase of “lets wait for Bulldozer to come out” :)

I am not sure what you are trying to insinuate???:confused:

Hexus has only showed part of the presentation. The CineBench results show it only a tiny bit ahead when compared to a Phenom II X6 1100T. Look at the CineBench slide for instance. It does not even have the CPU it claims to have and lists OS X as the OS used.

Here are all the slides:

http://www.donanimhaber.com/islemci/galerileri/AMD-Bulldozer-FX-resmi-test-sonuclari_1.htm

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