AMD Vishera FX-8350 Piledriver Benchmark (OBR)

[Jeff007245]

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.

http://wccftech.com/amd-vishera-fx8350-x86-piledriver-pitted-fx8150-cpu-benchmarks/

 

[Yuriman]

EDIT: Misinterpreted the data.

If we assume full turbo throughout the tests, it's not a bad improvement, but I'd much rather have had 15% more single-threaded performance and 4% multithreaded. Piledriver is really starting to perform like a true 8-core processor, so we can finally end the argument as to whether or not AMD's Bulldozer architecture really has 8 cores.

 

[laputan machine]

Will the turbo even work when you oc the cpu like they did here? I don't like them having a 8300 and just calling it a 8350 with oc'ing it. Performance should be similar but it's a bit disingenuous.

 

[radu_matei_2007]

anyways 3960x will smash it)

 

[inf64]

No doubt it will smash it. It better smash it since it's ~4x the price for CPU alone.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

No doubt it will smash it. It better smash it since it's ~4x the price for CPU alone.

Yup. Lol. Irrelevant comparison.

 

[Yuriman]

anyways 3960x will smash it)

I raise you to a 24-core Xeon rig. That would smash your 3960X.

 

[Smoblikat]

I raise you to a 24-core Xeon rig. That would smash your 3960X.

I further raise you to a 96 core opteron rig, that will eviscerate the Xeon.

 

[leper84]

Are these the same benches/ES from a couple weeks ago or is this new stuff?

 

[inf64]

It's the same stuff,reposted.

 

[Borealis7]

why are we still reading OBR??

 

[guskline]

AMD appears to have a tight rein on this release. No midnight meetings to set guiness records. I expect a modest but measurable improvement over Bulldozer.

 

[eternalone]

I expect no real difference in performance maybe even lower than bulldozer. Let see what happens.

 

[Smoblikat]

I expect no real difference in performance maybe even lower than bulldozer. Let see what happens.

This

 

[Soulkeeper]

no more blind faith.
It's up to AMD to earn our respect.

 

[CHADBOGA]

why are we still reading OBR??

Because he is a great man.

 

[piesquared]

no more blind faith.
It's up to AMD to earn our respect.

Hell they've earned my respect a long time ago.

Any company that can hang with another that's 10x the size and still compete, and win in many cases, is by far more impressive than the company with all those resources.

 

[beginner99]

Hell they've earned my respect a long time ago.

Any company that can hang with another that's 10x the size and still compete, and win in many cases, is by far more impressive than the company with all those resources.

Then you have obviously never worked in a big company. Or said otherwise the bigger the more is wasted on useless management stuff and internal "political" conflicts. And that's pretty much an exponential and not a linear increase.

On Topic:

Well if those numbers are true it's again rather sad but looks like BD had a flaw in multi-threading since those numbers have increased. Sadly what AMD needs is better single-threaded performance.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Hell they've earned my respect a long time ago.

Any company that can hang with another that's 10x the size and still compete, and win in many cases, is by far more impressive than the company with all those resources.

They earned my respect and then lost it.

 

[tulx]

Because he is a great man.

He might very well be, but his site is a pile of biased troll crap and, since this is a CPU forum and not a personality contest, he doesn't qualify - great as he may be.

 

[inf64]

He is a great troll maybe. Only similar personality can call OBR a "great man" .

 

[NTMBK]

Because he is a great man.

You forgot your <sarcarsm> tags.

 

[lifeblood]

Hell they've earned my respect a long time ago.

Any company that can hang with another that's 10x the size and still compete, and win in many cases, is by far more impressive than the company with all those resources.

They earned my respect but not my money. To earn my my money they have to sell a competitive CPU.

 

[Face2Face]

I want to see a Anand review. Then we will see if Intel gets my money this go round.

 

[Riek]

Then you have obviously never worked in a big company. Or said otherwise the bigger the more is wasted on useless management stuff and internal "political" conflicts. And that's pretty much an exponential and not a linear increase.

On Topic:

Well if those numbers are true it's again rather sad but looks like BD had a flaw in multi-threading since those numbers have increased. Sadly what AMD needs is better single-threaded performance.

Multithreaded is due to higher base clocks.

He is especially testing fp performance which we know didn't change alot and 5% is better than nothing.

superPi? cine 10 and 11.5. (basically the same thing) and CPUmark99.

Luckily in most of those applications single thread performance is of little importance as they scale pretty well with threads.

Piledriver architecture has the best increases in integer performance..
Do we expect miracles? ofcourse not... but we already knew what we could expect the moment Bulldozer left the building... and untill they can be competitive with the process... bulldozer will stay only competitive in very few areas.