Bulldozer tested

[Arclight]

And it falls a bit short.

Under heavily threaded workloads it can generally measure up to the top Intel chips, but under a lightly threaded load it falls short of even AMD's own previous architecture.

Personally I pretty much only care about gaming performance; that's the heaviest load I throw at this thing, so that's where I'm looking for the highest performance. And in that scenario it's really a bust at this point in time.

Shame.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/t...-fx8150-tested

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So what do you do if you're buying today? If you have an existing high-end Phenom II system, particularly an X4 970 or above or an X6 of any sort, I honestly don't see much of a reason to upgrade. You're likely better off waiting for the next (and final) iteration of the AM3+ lineup if you want to stick with your current platform. If you're considering buying new, I feel like the 2500K is a better overall part. You get more predictable performance across the board regardless of application type or workload mix, and you do get features like Quick Sync. In many ways, where Bulldozer is a clear win is where AMD has always done well: heavily threaded applications. If you're predominantly running well threaded workloads, Bulldozer will typically give you performance somewhere around or above Intel's 2500K.

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