AMD Bulldozer Energy Efficiency Compared

AMD BulldozerTomsHardware compared the new AMD FX 8-core processors with the codename Bulldozer against eight other CPU including AMD Phenom II and i5-2500K. AMD claims that by developing the FX-8150 8-core processor they made important improvements to power consumption. The energy efficiency basically means what their hardware can do per watt of power consumption. Low energy consumption on its own doesn't directly translate to high efficiency. Especially in today's world of single- and multi-threaded applications, it's important to take different workloads into account.

The comparison was made running different single- and multi-threaded applications (Office tools, Audio\Video encoding, Photoshop, 3DsMax and more) to test the efficiency in both states. About the benchmark results and conclusions please visit the link at the bottom of this article.

„There are very few arguments in favor of the FX CPU right now. Performance improvements above and beyond the Phenom II X6 are limited to heavily-threaded applications. In case of modern applications that don't utilize multiple threads, this Bulldozer digs its own grave. The only way to properly utilize the FX processor is to run applications able to tax its eight integer cores.“TomsHardware

Source and full article: TomsHardware

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