AMD Vishera FX-8350 (x86 Piledriver) Gets Pitted Against FX-8150 in Various CPU Benchmarks

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Benchmark comparison of AMD’s upcoming FX-Vishera 8350 against the FX-Bulldozer 8150 have been posted over at OBR-Blog. The FX-Vishera processors are based on the x86 piledriver architecture which features improved clock frequencies for better performance and launches sometime around Q4 2012.

The FX-8350 features an Octacore design and comes clocked at 4.0GHz stock and 4.2GHz Turbo Core frequency. For comparison, the first generation FX-8150 is also an eight core processors clocked at 3.6GHz stock and 4.2GHz Turbo Core frequency. Both processors are built on a 32nm fabrication process with a rated TDP of 125W. Each CPU has 8MB of L3 Cache.

You can see a detailed comparison of Piledriver and Bulldozer die in the screenshot posted below:

The CPU is currently in OR-C0 revision which as indicated by OBR would make its way to the final retail offering. The test bed included the latest AM3+ motherboard from ASUS, the Crosshair V Formula-Z. Along with that were a high end Noctua heatsink for cooling, Kingston 2333MHz DDR3 memory and a GTX 660 Ti GPU, All running on an Antec PSU.

Below you can see results in various benchmarks:

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Finally we have a conclusion of the new FX-Vishera processors! The FX-8350 runs at higher clocks and improves multi-threaded performance upto 10% and single-threaded app performance around 4-5%. AMD’s second generation piledriver architecture does come with some improvements but they still lack against the offering from counterpart Intel.

Although this was an Engineering Sample which OBR tested but we still believe some kind of improvements would come with the final retail offering or this could be Bulldozer all over again. For benchmarks of FX-8300 processor, head over to the article here.

For a detailed preview of the FX-8350 CPU, Head over to OBR’s blog here.

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doctorpankake

It looks like what bulldozer was intended to be. A lot more competitive to SB, just a bit behind Ivy Bridge. When you consider the prices not being announced yet, these could be competitive if they are at $250 or so
http://www.facebook.com/FreshPrinceOfLC Tyler Roemhildt

This isn’t too far less than what I expected. Not bad, but it could have been better. According to AMD, this suffers from the same issue that Bulldozer did. They said something about Steamroller+ having the cores fed faster. I heard some rumors that the changes made to Steamroller were made by Jim Keller in his first week of being re-hired. If that’s true, I doubt AMD will have much of an issue getting Steamroller competitive again.
- Nickolas
  
  Differences with Steamroller is no more shared Decoder per 2-core module. Now AMD placed 2 x Decoders,one per core. Based on 28nm and completely modified. This should put AMD back on par with Intel when released in early to mid 2013. Expect 45% or more performance vs. Bulldozer clock 4 clock.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Parker/100001678620311 Michael Parker
  
  When they add the second decoder, will single threaded applications be faster, as each module can share all resources, so 2 decoders working with one core?
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http://profiles.google.com/toarmin Armin Barron

Wow, these new AMD cpus are so close to Intel when running Intel optimised synthetic benchmarks. This means they will perform much better in the real world!
l188696

Looks good, but it remains to be seen what the power usage will be like, if it’s anything like Bulldozer, well that would be a massive disappointment again – i.e. do Intel processors outperform AMD using less power?

Also, sadly these CPU’s don’t include a graphics core where majority of Ivy’s (and to a lesser degree Sandy’s) die space is used.
moohoo

Pretty much a low end ivy bridge CPU, but likely having more power consumption, while that may still look bad, that means they are now closer to 1 year behind intel, rather than 2. (Maybe 1.4?) And it’s about time, as AMD has had nothing on anything but the mid range i5′s on it’s top products(With the 2500K being roughly the same as a 8 Core AMD), it’s nice to see some i7′s starting to lose. What i am confused with now though, Is AMD still going to add all the improvements steamroller was meant to have + add the decode unit. Then we might see some Ivy bridges fall by the wayside
- Mike Kozdron
  
  may be a low end ivy bridge cpu but it will cost less i garrantee that much, and when you couple the fact that the motherboards for amd are also cheaper its a win win for people who dont need the top of the line fastest thing on the market. i may actually upgrade my phenom ii x1090t now.
illegaloperation

So in other words the AMD FX-8350 ES is about as fast as the Intel Core i7-2600K.
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http://twitter.com/GoArchie Putra Archibald

I really wish the Vishera 8350 will perform at least on par with SB 2700k, or just a bit over SB 2700k would be awesome, then that would be my choice on getting rid of this phenom II 965BE. But if not, I guess this is goodbye for AMD from me
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happy 8120 owner ;)

i heard they dumped this piledriver and started working on steamrollers? is this true? will they still release this processor or only steamrollers?
- http://wccftech.com/ Hassan Mujtaba
  
  AMD will release Piledriver in October and Kaveri APU with Steamroller cores in 2013
Jinxed

“AMD’s new 8-psuedo-core at 4GHz performs near Intel’s Quad core i7 @3.4Ghz”. Well it’s about time… But how hot does it get and what about price?
Guest

Define “Photoshop job”. I’d bet welling to bet ALL benchmark graphs are put together using one professional program for creating or editing photos or another. Why edit preexisting graphs when you can make your own when you have Photoshop on your side?
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http://www.facebook.com/KogaTheLoneWolf Reginald Williams

yes at about 50 dollar difference, prices are leaked
Sho Nuff

lol!!!!! Did you dumb-masses not see that in the cpuz codename box the processor is listed as a ZAMBEZI!!!!! This dumbass forger did not even have the sense to change the codename to VISHERA!!!!!!! Please do not pay this stupid site any attention. Please take this fake ass site down and stop trying to ruin AMD!
http://twitter.com/Zoneii Marlon

If this review is legit, and the FX8350 is a re-designed core from over the FX8150, then the benchmarks would suggest that the FX8350 is still only marginally faster than the 8150, but only because of the clock rate difference and not the re-designed core lol. You overclock the 8150 to 4GHZ, you’d probably get the same identical score.
canopus72

It is true that AMD have hired Jim Keller. Rumours are that Jim will be redesigning/improving the steamroller cpu. He is a hot shot cpu designer and he has about 15 months of R&D to pull out all the stops to make steamroller very respectable. For those not in the know please ignore the OBR website. This guy is a known detractor of AMD products. He is foul mouthed, abusive and a total liar. None of the respectable pc tech sites allow this jerk to post his foul mouthed diatribe. This author hassan mujtaba calls himself a pc expert yet he has been caught at least twice now using ‘benchmark data’ from unreliable and dishonest sources. Numpty. He has never even heard of spell check!. The FX8350 is designed to compete against the 2600K and in the overclocked state, to compete against the 2700K. It is not designed to compete against LGA 2011. I cant wait to get my FX8350.

I recently read a tech review, where the author said that AMD should have stayed with the tried and tested (and popular phenom series). He said that AMD could easily fit 10 or even 12 genuine Phenom processing cores on the same 32nm platform that BD utilizes. This got me thinking and I agree. AMD should have stayed with the Phenom series and released an 8 (or 10 core) Phenom III series in October 2011 (ie – when BD would have been released), it would have been far cheaper and easier for them to improve upon an already popular cpu (tiny Tom Logan loved the 1090T and 1100T as he said they traded blows with the 2500K). Imagine a genuine 8 or 10 cores AMD cpu on a 990FX platform. It would rival the 2600K and 2700K and it would persuade many intel fans to migrate to AMD. Come October 2012, AMD could then release a 10 or 12 core Phenom IV on a 990FX or 1090FX platform (P IV priced at about £220). I would love to have a 12 core cpu and it would blow all intels including IB out of the water. The Phenom III and IV would have higher frequency, loads of overclocking headroom, loads of L2 and L3 cache and improved architecture. Not only would it make intel shit in their pants but it would also give AMD and Jim Keller an extra 2 years to completely redesign, overhaul and streamline the bulldozer and make it the brute that it should have been.
canopus72

os2wiz. You are absolutely right.
canopus72

phaeslinear. OBR has absolutely no good intentions wrt AMD. That guy is satan.
Obama sucks

The real question is how far can it be overclocked and to what advantage. The turbo speeds are the same which makes me wonder about the stability of the processor beyond 4.2ghz on some motherboards. For example the top end biostar won’t oc the 8150 beyond 4.2 with stability and the msi is at 4.4 while the crosshair v and fatality are the only two boards we were able to get stable at 4.7 or better. In other words, if you can’t clock the 8350 beyond 5.0,ghz how much better will the 8350 perform when both the 8150 and 8350 are at 4.7? The 8150s major set back was single threaded performance when compared to even the i5. When the i7 and 8150 were overclocked to around 4.5ghz, the 8150 tied or beat it in several cases. The Tech Report did an article titled further overclocked which describes this. If you look at the pass mark benchmarks there is NO i5 that is faster than the 8150. I love my 8150, it can do far more at the same time than my i7-2600 can. I’m trying to determine if going to the 8350 will be worth it or not since AMD announced they will release another AM3+ compatible processor next year which will be after the 8350. Perhaps an 8550?
Gasq

Someone has to pioneer the use of more cores so the community could create a state whereby multi-threading is mandatory for many softwares.
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Readen

a lot of people dont take into account tha AMD has a way lower budget
than intel to build there CPU’s, and in a way AMD build better chips for
the money that they spend, i would like to see intel build a CPU on a level
that they do whit AMD’s budget. i tink not, in fact they would fail at building a chip on AMD’s level, whit AMD’s budget. they would fail miserably.

AMD Vishera FX-8350 (x86 Piledriver) Gets Pitted Against FX-8150 in Various CPU Benchmarks

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