The Vishera Review: AMD FX-8350, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300 Tested
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 23, 2012 12:00 AM ESTVideo Transcoding Performance
x264 HD 5.0.1 Benchmark
We migrated to the latest verison of the x264 HD benchmark which features a much newer version of x264 and a much heavier workload. The focus here is on quality rather than speed, thus the benchmark uses a 2-pass encode and reports the average frame rate in each pass.
The latest version of the x264 HD test does extremely well on Vishera. With the exception of the FX-6300, AMD is able to come away with a win at all of its price points. The FX-8350 even outperforms the Core i7 3770K.
Visual Studio 2012 - Multithreaded Compile Performance
Our compile test is back and better than ever. With a much larger and faster SSD (Samsung SSD 830, 512GB), we're able to get more consistent compile times between runs. We're now using Visual Studio 2012 to compile Mozilla's Firefox project. The compile is multithreaded however there are periods of serial operation where performance is bound by the speed of a single core. The end result is a benchmark that stresses both single and multithreaded performance. Compile times are reported in minutes elapsed.
It's all or nothing with Vishera. Mixed workloads that stress both single and multithreaded performance don't turn out as well on AMD's platform. With the FX-8350 AMD is able to sneak up on Sandy Bridge, but the competitive Ivy Bridge parts simply pull ahead. If there ever was a reason to fix AMD's single threaded performance, you're looking at it.
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MySchizoBuddy - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
correct for your workload AMD is a better choice in speed and costBlibbax - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
Read the techreport review. Intel still comes out on top.CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - link
Don't worry AMD is going to SteamRoll Intel soon !CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - link
NO, amd never does better. It does worse, often by a lot, and sad little cheapo SB's spank it sorry a lot of the time.Mugur - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
I'm trying to find a good scenario for those desktop cpus... Cheap 8 core virtualization hosts? Video encoding? Other than that, in this "mobile" world when every desktop PC looks out of time, I don't know what you can do with them. They are obviously not good for light loads or gaming...lmcd - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
The architecture makes more sense when less modules are used, i.e. the APU series. Look at how Trinity destroyed Llano, both desktop and mobile. And note that an A10+6670 is a perfect midrange gaming value.CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - link
fanboy much ? Now we have again the amd perfection. LOLSB smacks it down, as does nVidia. Sorry fanboy, amd has nothing that is a perfect value, especially in gaming.
RussianSensation - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - link
What are you blabbing about? You should be banned from this forum.While Intel's CPUs are clearly in a class of their own for high-end CPU gaming rigs, AMD's GPUs are doing very well this generation, having captured single-GPU performance crown, performance/$ and overclocking performance. The minute you said NV smacks AMD's GPU around, you lost ALL credibility.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12...
You may want to take a look at 90% of all the games that came out in 2012 - GTX680 loses to 7970 GE (or 680 OC vs. 7970 OC). Facts must not sit well with AMD haters.
mayankleoboy1 - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
Nice performance predictions for Haswell and Steamroller.But IMHO, 15% increase for Haswell is too high and 15% for Steamroller is low.
IMHO, more realistic expectations would be :
Haswell 10%. probably more like 8%.
Steamroller 20%
dishayu - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
Steamroller 15% is straight from the horse's (AMD's) mouth and 15% for Haswell is well within reason because it's a "tock" (new architecture). So, i think 15% for both works out fine for making speculative statements at this moment.