Tuesday 1 May 2012

Overclocked AMD FX 8150 Review : Part I, Enter Gigabyte





PART I of V : Return of AMD FX, Enter Gigabyte





My System:

AMD FX 8150 @ 4.90 Ghz
Promilatech Genesis Cooler - 3 x 135mm Scythe Kama Flex 100CFM fans
Maingear T1000 TIM
8 Gb DDR3 Team Xtreem 2400 cl9 @  @ 1987 Mhz / CL9
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7
XFX HD 6990 + Accelero Twin Turbo Cooler @ 990/1500 Mhz
RevoDrive 3 x2 - 240 Gb 






Comparison Systems : 


AMD FX 8150 @ 4.81 Ghz
Promilatech Genesis Cooler - 3 x 135mm Scythe Kama Flex 100CFM fans
Indigo Xtreme TIM
G. Skill 2200 cl7 @ x 2190 Mhz / CL10
ASUS Crosshair V
XFX HD 6990 + Accelero Twin Turbo Cooler @ 990/1500 Mhz


Intel i7 3770k @ 4.7-4.9Ghz
Various 4-16 Gb DDR3
Various Z77 Motherboards
Various GPUs


Results:






Sources:


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Discussion:



We see that for the benchmarks used in Part I of my review, FX only falls signficantly behind when only a single thread is used. When only one core is being used we see a 25-40% benefit per Ghz for the 3770k over the FX 8150.

When all threads can be used, Bulldozer does a good job of making up for the lost single threaded performance. Scaling for FX outshines the i7 3770k by a significant margin.  Most notably with techarp's x264 HD, where my FX 8150 @ 4.9 Ghz beats a 5.0 Ghz 2600k, and narrowly loses to a 4.9 Ghz 3770k. (Check source 19)

In TrueCrypt 7.1a we see a 4.9 Ghz FX 8150 performing slightly better than its 22nm 3770k intel counterpart at 4.7 Ghz.

In 7-Zip we see the FX 8150 jumping 2.7 % percent ahead of its 3770k counterpart at the same 4.9 Ghz clock for Compression, but falling behind 2.7% with decompression.

The temperature of a 3770k is also seen to sky-rocket up to 78C during a SuperPi 32m test, while my FX 8150 doest hit above 59C.

Next week well see how my GPU  handles graphically intensive workloads on my new Gigabyte board.


Stay Tuned!

5 comments:

  1. I appreciate everything you are doing in the name of fair comparisons and benchmarks! Keep up the good work.

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  2. Thanks for the feedback!

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  3. Can't wait for Piledriver! If only the FX-8150 could offer the same performance at a reasonable power consumption ...

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  4. With 15-25% higher IPC, vishera will close the gap with the consumer i7 3770k especially given its lower power and higher clocks.

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  5. How's your LLC setting on your UD7?
    My UD3 has some killer vboost with LLC on Extreme (according to Hardware monitor, from 1,45v to 1,58v)

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