AMD FX-8150: Bulldozer on the bench table

In this article we'll show you a detailed analysis of the performance of the AMD FX-8150, top of the range of proposals based on the new Bulldozer architecture. The tests provide a full suite of tests in which the CPU will be compared to other proposals of the market, either by default or at different frequencies. We will also consider the impact of memory on performance, and the consumption as a function of voltage.

X264 Benchmark HD 3.0

Software to measure CPU performance using x264 video encoding.

In this benchmark, we can see a really good score on 2nd Run, it is in fact higher than the Intel i7-2600K, but the difference in 1st Run rather reverses and does mark a step backward. We can however say that the overall performance is very similar, making an average, to the Intel reference.

At a frequency of 4 GHz, one can observe that while in the 2nd Pass maintains a degree of advantage with the 1100T and loses a little something towards 2600K, in the 1st pass once again we see how the CPU with Thuban architecture is forward, albeit little.