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We tested the Bulldozer: FX-8150 and three 990FX motherboards on the test bench

We tested the Bulldozer: FX-8150 and three 990FX motherboards on the test bench

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Cinebench R10 is an old engine, but it's still worth using because you can see how much the result achieved with one core matters when all cores and threads do the rendering. It's good to see the theory becoming practice in relation to Bulldozer, according to which "core-to-core" is somewhat weaker than the previous generation, not to mention the Sandy Bridge architecture. In the second measurement, the eight cores come to life, and things immediately paint a different picture, but 2500K can still only be approached. On the other hand, the tuning produced serious results, the 2500K and 2600K were also beaten, only the 980X could overtake them.

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Cinebench 11.5 is the latest version of the previous application, here you can only measure using all cores+threads, but this program is nowadays considered a serious value measure in relation to multi-threaded instruction processing. In the introduction to this program, AMD's "graphics joke" about the FX-8150 and 980X came up, but now we can see the harsh reality. It doesn't have much to do with the 980X, the 2500K is beaten by a small margin, but don't forget that the FX-8150 works with twice as many cores as the 2500K. Accordingly, the 2600K can no longer cope. You can also see that a possible new stepping, which could be sent into battle with a much higher clock signal, would help the situation of the Bulldozer a lot, because the patient accelerated a lot again as a result of the tuning.

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We rested the POV-Ray for a while, now re-elevated it back into the test apps for the sake of the Bulldozer. The latest version, 3.7 RC3, was used, and the time required for rendering and the score obtained were also recorded. It can be seen that the FX-8150 thanked for the confidence this time, stepping down the Phenom, beating the 2500K with confidence, and now it has managed to beat the 2600K, if only by a hair. The 980X failed to put on the glove, but that’s no big surprise.

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LuxMark is also the first software to measure rendering capabilities, even in GPU-accelerated mode. We now used only the processor power and recorded the scores we received. We expected a little more from the FX-8150, the four-core 2500K was almost mandatory to beat, but the 2600K and 980X were significantly behind.

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We close this section with Photoshop, in which we ran a script that draws a nice calendar on the screen by the end of the operation. The time required for execution was measured, so the smaller value is the better in the graph. So far, AMD hasn’t liked Photoshop, and it doesn’t seem to be going any further (the truth is, we’ve tried CS5 as well, but we’ve gotten even worse results). Intel CPUs compete one class up, and the Bulldozer is just dealing with Phenom.

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