Technical Details
- Overclocking capabilities - Unlocked for a big boost in performance and speed.
- "Bulldozer" architecture - Designed to increase core communication for unparalleled multitasking and pure core performance.
- AMD Turbo CORE Technology - A burst of speed for the task at hand. Delivers dynamic core performance boosts depending on users' workload at frequencies of up to 900MHz faster.
- AMD OverDrive software - Tuning controls to push performance to the limits and monitors system stability when overclocking
- 32nm die shrink - Stable and smooth performance with impressive energy efficiency
- Advanced Instruction Support - accelerates a new generation of applications:SSE3, SSE4.1/4.2, AVX, AES, XOP, FMA4
- Larger Caches - increase everyday performance with support up to 8MB L2 Cache and 8MB L3 Cache
Product Description
Experience responsive game play and mega-tasking performance with AMD FX Processors. Get AMD FX in your system.
Customer Reviews
By NT
I already reviewed the AMD FX 8120, so I will extend my thoughts from my other review.
Pros: AMD put a dump load of true Genuine Innovation within this brand new CPU design built from the ground up. I give AMD credit for taking a massive leap forward forcing themselves to innovate.
Personally Bulldozer is a marvel of success, but it's for the future because today's software won't fully utilize the new architecture unless developers start releasing patch fixes. That said, for what you are paying for it's a super deal and a half, and makes for a great gaming CPU along with heavy multi-tasking use.
Take my word for it, Bulldozer i.e.: AMD FX series is far from being a wash, it's innovation at it's best. Which is why I highly recommend them to everybody.....
Cons: Currently it outperforms the Phenom II is most benchmarks but not all of them. I don't blame AMD for all of this; I blame the software developers along with Windows 7. The OS is having a hard time trying to figure out what Bulldozer really is and is making a mess in how the CPU is actually suppose to work. Once Microsoft resolves this and releases an update you should theoretically see performance go through the roof.
That said, currently single threaded programs are not as fast with the AMD FX as they should, we are talking about a massive 8-core CPU designed for massive Multi-Tasking and such.
Other Thoughts: What NEXT?
With the fact that Piledriver (Bulldozer II / AMD FX2 within Q1 2012 based on Socket AM3+) is being released so soon I believe that AMD knew about Bulldozer's minor design issues (Branch Prediction, Pipeline Flushing, Cache Trashing, Decode unit not wide enough etc. which all need to be TWEAKED.) but instead counted on higher frequencies to make up until Piledriver (Bulldozer II - AMD FX2)should be released via Socket AM3+.
Anandtech's review also shows that cache latency is worse than Phenom II.
Both problems can be blamed on Global Foundry's poor 32nm process yields.
Cache latency can be increased and clock speeds lowered to get higher yields.
I think that AMD saw the problems that needed re-working but decided that clock speed would be enough to counter them for the time being but then a few months later they find that yields were too poor and had no choice but to launch as is.
UPDATE:
Most review sites recieved an ASUS Crosshair V Formula motherboards along with the AMD FX 8150 8-Core CPU. Most sites have gotten similar benchmark results. There may have been an issue with this particular ASUS motherboard. It is said that the advance bios was conflicting with the new Bulldozer CPU. Obviously if this is truly an issue, both Asus and AMD should have resolved this ASAP before AMD released this new CPU.
Below is a list of review sites which used either other motherboards to do the review and/or an ASUS board with a revised bios update. Check out the results, the AMD FX 8150 is either Equal or faster than the Intel Core i7 2600 CPU in several benchmarks including gaming.
That said, the AMD FX CPU's are imature, no problem, but with a little time and some work, they should grow into something very competative IMO.
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