AMD FX8150 CPU Review

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Published: 12th October 2011 | Source: AMD | Price: £194.99 @ Aria | Author: Tom Logan

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The Stock results certainly don't blow us away. Although there is a lot of extra performance in the zLib testing, the CPU Queen and PhotoWorxx results, even when overclocked, only just edge a stock i5-2500K and are put in the shade by the overclocked 2500K. Not an auspicious start.

The Memory benchmarks are a clear improvement over it's predecessor the 1095T, but nowhere near as good as anything on a LGA1155. The write speeds in particular are poor at best.

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16-10-2011, 16:10:57

ruthless

Tom, can you make the first vid when you're back up and running the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7? I'm hearing some rumours there's a problem with the CHV, with some saying as much as a 30% hit in performance. Seems very unfortunate for AMD if this is true.

doubt it amd wouldnt have sent it out as the testing mobo... they are stupid but not that stupid

16-10-2011, 17:50:03

nothingspecial

doubt it amd wouldnt have sent it out as the testing mobo... they are stupid but not that stupid

More to do with the black/red colour scheme or an agreement between the two companies than anything else probably. Thread on Tom's Hardware about it, worth a read:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/315775-10-asus-crosshair-giving-biased-results-bulldozer

Edit: A frequent mention of an L1 Cache bug on there. Tells me there's definately problems with all the test kits in some shape or form.

17-10-2011, 02:10:40

Michael89

Amd Fail:(

17-10-2011, 06:38:46

Zeals

Tom, can you make the first vid when you're back up and running the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7? I'm hearing some rumours there's a problem with the CHV, with some saying as much as a 30% hit in performance. Seems very unfortunate for AMD if this is true.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/zardon/amd-fx-8150-black-edition-8-core-review-with-gigabyte-990fxa-ud7/

It certainly appears to have better performance running on the 990FXA-UD7, not sure about other boards though. If it is a motherboard issue, than the AMD marketing department just did an epic fail.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1285/pg16/amd-fx-8150-black-edition-8-core-processor-vs-core-i7-2600k-review-conclusion.html

Hardware Heaven using an ASRock 990FX-Extreme 4 also showed significantly better performance, keeping in mind these motherboards are also a fair bit cheaper than the ASUS CHV, there appears to be a serious BIOS issue,

17-10-2011, 07:44:58

dugdiamond

there are quite a few reviews about now... and after all has been said TTL was correct.

AMD's claims were highly exaggerated and over the hype over-anticpated

the top-of-the-current-range of BDs are only on par with a sb2500K.

intel's ivyBridge/2700K with SR-3 now seems to be the way forward for myself.

unlucky AMD, you have just lost another user.

BTW: i have also been given a quote for a dual-Opteron server... what a rip off - lol

EVGA SR-3 (when released) all the way FTW

17-10-2011, 12:07:13

SieJoe

Single threaded performance may be crap. But it does beat the 2500K and 2600K in some heavily threaded benches so you have to give it some praise. Just not alot

TBH I never thought it'd be close to the SBs but I would have thought it would be a big improvement over the 1100T. But amazingly its not.

17-10-2011, 12:14:33

Mark26

I think i'm going to chance my arm and pick up a gigabyte 990fx board and a 8150 cpu as even if it turns out to be crap, could just use it as a server as 8 cores would help there. I think with the reviews without the asus board showing completely different results than the ones like toms, for me at least I think its worth trying it. (Maybe its just wishful thinking on my part that amd can compete with intel for better choice). Would be cool if tom had another board and would show a review of the cpu on another motherboard that is not an asus one just to see.

17-10-2011, 16:39:50

ruthless

i wont be building for another 9 months and im deffo not touching a intel chip so will see what AMD do.... if anything

Just seen a couple of benchmarks where they are not using the crosshair v and the bulldozer cpu looks alot better

here : http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1285/pg11/amd-fx-8150-black-edition-8-core-processor-vs-core-i7-2600k-review-f1-2011.html

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/zardon/amd-fx-8150-black-edition-8-core-review-with-gigabyte-990fxa-ud7/7/

18-10-2011, 02:42:34

Ratchet219

Hey, Tom did you talk with AMD at all? Does AMD think it's supposed to be funny? Because it ain't!

21-10-2011, 14:38:37

GuyIncognito

Soooo glad I didn't bother waiting for this, and opted for the 2500k 3 months ago!

Same here. Got a 2600k several months ago.

AMD FX8150 CPU Review

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Published: 12th October 2011 | Source: AMD | Price: £194.99 @ Aria | Author: Tom Logan

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