AMD FX-4100 vs. AMD FX-8150 vs. Fusion vs. SNB

AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core Bulldozer CPU benchmarking against the AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer for Phoronix.com. Thanks to AMD for sending out the FX-8150 Bulldozer kit. Comparison against AMD Llano Fusion A8-3850 and Intel Sandy Bridge processors for a future article.

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AMD FX-4100 vs. AMD FX-8150 vs. Fusion vs. SNB AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core Bulldozer CPU benchmarking against the AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer for Phoronix.com. Thanks to AMD for sending out the FX-8150 Bulldozer kit. Comparison against AMD Llano Fusion A8-3850 and Intel Sandy Bridge processors for a future article. ,,"AMD FX-4100","AMD A8-3850","Intel Core i3 2120","Intel Core i5 2400S","Intel Core i5 2500K","AMD FX-8150" Processor,,AMD FX-4100 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores),AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon HD @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,ASUS M5A97 EVO,,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASUS Crosshair V Formula Chipset,,ATI RD890 PCI to PCI bridge,AMD Device 1705,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family,ATI RD890 PCI to PCI bridge Memory,,16384MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB Disk,,60GB SSD G2 64 + 2000GB SAMSUNG HD204UI + 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2 Graphics,,NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz),NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz) Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889 Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS,,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.10 Kernel,,2.6.38-11-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64) Display Driver,,NVIDIA 1.0.0,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 285.05.09 Compiler,,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.6.1 File-System,,xfs,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Desktop,,,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 4.22.0 Display Server,,,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.4 OpenGL,,,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,4.2.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09 Screen Resolution,,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"AMD FX-4100","AMD A8-3850","Intel Core i3 2120","Intel Core i5 2400S","Intel Core i5 2500K","AMD FX-8150" "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,50.19,47.71,48.90,61.62,76.03,102.23 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,330.30,500.53,524.33,565.67,456.10 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,,166.93,184.56,185.12,187.39,174.74 "Lightsmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,371.43,520.57,536.77,546.15,500.83 "Unigine Sanctuary - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,76.64,76.84,76.68,76.78, "Unigine Tropics - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,64.31,64.20,64.11,64.17, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,123,115,126,131,159,165 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,87,71,82,76,94,99 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,44,44,43,39,50,68 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,92,98,103,101,125,133 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,44,47,43,37,47,65 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8877,9488,8008,10060,12670,17753 "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,293780,247942,471638,471073,528780,314874 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,3523667,2645333,4177000,4101333,4668667,3678333 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,14082,13466,12733,12697,14191,15490 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,866,852,797,794,890,1002 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,63.65,52.93,77.45,77.63,86.55,68.75 "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,2.31,2.97,3.24,2.76,3.19,2.44 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5982.31,7400.05,6470.07,9419.50,11798.80,11240.21 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1788.94,1455.24,1500.72,2333.07,2680.08,2803.63 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,78.97,84.21,102.14,104.23,136.32,164.60 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3785.19,4124.04,3605.97,4970.15,6199.94,6593.08 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,99.91,97.05,165.30,164.27,183.57,108.11 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6058.10,5899.28,5780.62,7825.54,9834.04,11693.80 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3645.03,3534.66,4489.63,6116.87,6517.09,4484.59 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3735.79,3553.27,3815.97,5362.26,6132.67,5495.79 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,21.48,20.94,23.68,31.31,37.28,38.70 "Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,3777,4100,3037,3050,2720, "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,106.75,103.60,110.69,70.11,53.39,51.06 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,211,216,213,187,144,103 "POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,913,1161,783,784,701,823 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,28.69,31.19,21.26,21.29,18.98,27.02 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,8.75,8.51,6.96,6.98,6.22,7.85 "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,16.50,29.04,14.21,17.28,16.43,10.10 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,28.86,33.16,22.18,22.00,19.66,26.65