14 DAY TRIAL // With October 23, the time of arrival for AMD's Vishera CPUs, even closer, there has been no shortage of leaks and reports about the Piledriver-based FX processors.
As such, we had some good news to share. Sadly, OBR-Hardware says that, according to extensive benchmark tests, the AMD FX-8350 flagship is only 9% faster (on average) than the FX-8150.
For those who want more specifics, single-threaded prowess was 4.2% better, while multi-threaded performance was 11.2% higher, not much different from previous tests.
The silver lining in all this is that Vishera uses 15% less energy than its predecessor.
Needless to say, Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs easily won the day, and it looks like previous-generation Sandy Bridge did better too, overall.
Granted, AMD never said the Bulldozer was supposed to outperform the high-end Core-Series chips, but it is still odd to see 8-core units being trounced by quad-core ones.
Fortunately, AMD still has an edge in pricing, though we've encountered complaints about those being too high as well, albeit only compared to AMD's other chips.