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Review: AMD FX-8150 at 4.7GHz. Does it stand tall?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 13 October 2011, 09:11

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Light-load tests

Nothing much to report here.

Cranking up the clocks has the effect of reducing latency a touch: memory is still run at 1,600MHz.

FX-8150's architecture really takes a hammering in tests involving older benchmarks that process single threads. Bumping up the speed to 4.7GHz isn't enough to trouble a stock-clocked Phenom II X6 1100T, let alone an Intel Core i5 2500K or Core i7 2600K.

The light-load test paints a more amenable picture, granted, but it remains in the Core i5/7 shadow. Know, too, that Intel's second-generation chips overclock pretty nicely.