AMD's FX-8150 After Two Windows 7 Hotfixes And UEFI Updates

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Introducing a new processor architecture takes a colossal effort. AMD's modular Bulldozer design ran into its share of resistance at launch. Can a handful of software updates turn the company's flagship FX-8150 into the powerhouse AMD promised?

Benchmark Results: Audio And Video Encoding

Between the operating system patches to address lightly-threaded applications and the HPC firmware switch to benefit performance in more thoroughly-threaded workloads, we expected to see at least small improvements in our audio encoding suite. Unfortunately, we didn’t.

At a minimum, we expected MainConcept to benefit from HPC mode. But again, we see no discernable performance improvements indicating the effectiveness of AMD’s updates.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.