Legit Processor Reviews

AMD FX-8150 Processor Review - Bulldozer Arrives

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: FD8150FRW8KGU
Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 - 11:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Total System Power Consumption

CPU Power Consumption

Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with identical power supplies, Solid-Sate Drives, Memory kits and motherboards from the same company. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, Prime95's in-place large FFT's were run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load for maximum power consumption and heat. Curious about other test scenarios, we decided to HAWX 2 the PC game for testing. We also tested a video transcode using HandBrake 0.95 to see how the power draw on that was.

ASUS F1A75-M Pro System Power Consumption

Benchmark Results: The AMD FX-8150 has really impressive idle test results as the processor consumes just 84 Watts at idle. When transcoding on all eight cores or playing a game the power numbers start to jump up though and the Intel Core i7-990X and the AMD FX-8150 processor were consuming roughly the same about of power in Prime 95 and HandBrake benchmarking. We had hopes that the 32nm process would help this 8-core processor cut down on load power use, but it uses more power than 45nm processors like the Phenom II X6 1100T.

Next Page - AMD FX-8150 CPU Temperature Testing


Review Index
Page 1 - AMD Brings Bulldozer To The Yard
Page 2 - AMD Bulldozer CPU Architecture
Page 3 - The AMD FX-8150 Press Kit & Water Cooler
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - AMD Turbo Core Details and Windows Index Score
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP5
Page 7 - x264 HD Encoding
Page 8 - CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5
Page 9 - Handbrake
Page 10 - POV-Ray 3.7 RC3
Page 11 - Cinebench R11.5
Page 12 - PCMark 7
Page 13 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 14 - Resident Evil 5
Page 15 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 16 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 17 - Total System Power Consumption
Page 18 - AMD FX-8150 CPU Temperature Testing
Page 19 - AMD FX-8150 CPU Overclocking
Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions