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

3D and games:

Finally, follow the two 3DMark and games! We were curious to see what forces the current king of Bulldozer architecture could mobilize in this area. Under Vantage, the situation is a bit controversial, as the FX-8150 lags behind Intel CPUs in terms of performance score and was only able to outperform the Phenom with the MSI GeFroce 560 Ti, while the CPU score shows that the FX represents more power at 2500K. The tuning threw in the result pretty nicely, the 2600K and 980X still couldn't be caught.

3DMark11 is already a much newer software, with DX11 support, and appears to be much more Bulldozer-friendly than its predecessor. During the Performance run, I managed to depress 2500K, only the 2600K was only a hair's breadth behind the FX, and with tuning it took the lead. The Xtreme score lay even better for AMD’s new miracle, which has put all its opponents behind it overall.

Let's see what Crysis 2 shows with the DX11 patch and the latest measurement software! Moving towards higher resolutions will be more and more limited, but to see the difference at the two lower resolutions, and clearly in favor of Intel processors, although the difference can only be called significant at 1024 × 768. Tuning did not matter much during the measurement.

During Battlefield 3, unfortunately, we were only able to install FRAPS measurements, also by doing the same route at the beginning of a given course, for approximately the same amount of time. Nevertheless, the measurement may not be 100% accurate, but perhaps the point is visible. At 1024 × 768, even the Core CPUs drive, but the FX-8150 isn’t far from them, and then switching to 1280 × 1024, the Bulldozer also hits the two Sandy Bridges. The two higher resolutions are moving dangerously towards the limit, but it looks good that the FX-8150 is not lagging behind the competition, in fact, it manages to catch up with the 2500K and 2600K and reach the 980X. Tuning had little effect on FPS values.

Unfortunately, F1 2011 already paints a much more negative image of the FX-8150 than the previous two titles. What you have seen does not need to be explained much, Intel CPUs in all resolutions are badly outperforming AMD units. Here, the tuning at least resulted in a few FPS, but this time only the Phenom II was suppressed, and not with much confidence either.

We arrived at our last graph with the results of an old acquaintance, Far Cry 2. FPS values ​​followed the same trend as we saw at F1 2011, meaning the numbers prove a total victory for Intel models, it would be better to forget the performance of the FX-8150, but let’s not forget that it’s a very old engine, thus, a maximum of one or two of the eight cores could be in use, and even Turbo Core could not help with this.