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Benchmark Results: F1 2011

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I’ve highlighted FX-8150’s performance because the delta between lowest and highest is much greater.

Intel’s Sandy Bridge-based chips take the top two spots at all three resolutions—and not by a small margin. Bloomfield scores third place up and down the spectrum. Meanwhile, FX-8150 takes second-to-last in the three resolutions.

Now, we had some serious issues with AMD processors in F1 2010. Those performance limitations seem to carry over here, too. In essence, we’re seeing them run into CPU-bound ceiling at 1680x1050 and, even at 2560x1600, the graphics load isn’t great enough to shift the bottleneck.

The two Sandy Bridge-based chips show us why: easily achieving greater than 80 frames per second at 1680x1050 and 1920x1080, it takes 2560x1600 with 8xAA and Ultra quality settings to knock performance down to the 60ish FPS mark. That’s still higher than what Zambezi manages, though, causing the AMD processor to hold up the show.

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btto 10/12/2011 4:13 AM
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ghnader hsmithot 10/12/2011 4:13 AM
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jdwii 10/12/2011 4:14 AM
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Been so long and i'm kinda sad.

compton 10/12/2011 4:16 AM
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Not many surprises but I've been waiting for a long, long time for this. I hope this is just the first step to a more competitive AMD.

ghnader hsmithot 10/12/2011 4:16 AM
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At least its almost as good as Nehalem.

gamerk316 10/12/2011 4:17 AM
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Dissapointing. Predicted it ages ago though. PII X6 is a better value.

anonymous 10/12/2011 4:18 AM
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As I expected - failure.

AbdullahG 10/12/2011 4:18 AM
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I see the guys from the BD Rumors are here. As many others are, I'm disappointed.

iam2thecrowe 10/12/2011 4:20 AM
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for the gaming community this is a FLOP.

phump 10/12/2011 4:22 AM
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FX-4100 looks like a good alternative to the 955BE. Same price, higher clock, and lower power profile.

phatbuddha79 10/12/2011 4:25 AM
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Why bring back the FX brand for something like this?

gmcizzle 10/12/2011 4:25 AM
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What I learned: the 2.5 year old i7-920 is still a beast.

jdwii 10/12/2011 4:28 AM
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ern88 10/12/2011 4:28 AM
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killerclick 10/12/2011 4:31 AM
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Ragnar-Kon 10/12/2011 4:36 AM
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Looks like solid chips, but I'll admit that the price point isn't low enough to compete in the gaming world with Intel.

I am rather curious how the FX-4100 will stack up against the current Phenom II X4 chips.

And even though the FX is a slight disappointment, I am rather impressed by the Windows 8 benchmarks. Having said that, by the time Windows 8 is ready for release I'm sure Intel will have an even better solution.

Tamz_msc 10/12/2011 4:37 AM
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So Bulldozer is AMD's version of NetBurst?

Homeboy2 10/12/2011 4:38 AM
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killerclick :
As I said before, it won't come close to beating Intel in performance or price. Now let's hear the fanboys whine.



Everyone should cry, even the Intel fanboys, this is bad news for everyone, now Intel has absolutely no incentive to lower prices or accelerate Ivy Bridge.

killerclick 10/12/2011 4:40 AM
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