AMD FX-8150 vs. Intel On Linux

AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core Bulldozer CPU benchmarking against the AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer eight-core for Phoronix.com. Thanks to AMD for sending out the FX-8150 Bulldozer kit to Michael Larabel. Comparison against AMD Llano Fusion A8-3850, AMD Opteron (Shanghai), Intel Bloomfield, Intel Gulftown, and Intel Sandy Bridge processors for a future article on Phoronix by MichaelLarabel.com.

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2 x AMD Opteron 2384
October 22 2011
 
AMD A8-3850
October 17 2011
 
AMD FX-4100
October 15 2011
 
AMD FX-8150
October 19 2011
 
Intel Core i5 2400S
October 17 2011
 
Intel Core i5 2500K
October 17 2011
 
Intel Core i7 920
October 23 2011
 
Intel Core i7 970
October 23 2011
 
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October 23 2011
 
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October 26 2011
 
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AMD FX-8150 vs. Intel On Linux AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core Bulldozer CPU benchmarking against the AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer eight-core for Phoronix.com. Thanks to AMD for sending out the FX-8150 Bulldozer kit to Michael Larabel. Comparison against AMD Llano Fusion A8-3850, AMD Opteron (Shanghai), Intel Bloomfield, Intel Gulftown, and Intel Sandy Bridge processors for a future article on Phoronix by MichaelLarabel.com. ,,"2 x AMD Opteron 2384","AMD A8-3850","AMD FX-4100","AMD FX-8150","Intel Core i5 2400S","Intel Core i5 2500K","Intel Core i7 920","Intel Core i7 970","Intel Core i7 990X","Intel Core i3 2100" Processor,,2 x AMD Opteron 2384 @ 2.70GHz (8 Cores),AMD A8-3850 APU with Radeon HD @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX-4100 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores),AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores),Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i3-2310M @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,TYAN S2932/S2932-E,,ASUS M5A97 EVO,ASUS Crosshair V Formula,ASRock Z68 Pro3,ASRock Z68 Pro3,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,MSI X58M (MS-7593) v1.0,LENOVO 4290W1A Chipset,,NVIDIA MCP55,AMD Device 1705,ATI RD890 PCI to PCI bridge,ATI RD890 PCI to PCI bridge,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family Memory,,4096MB,8192MB,16384MB,8192MB,8192MB,8192MB,3072MB,3072MB,3072MB,8192MB Disk,,165GB Western Digital WD1600YS-01S + 128GB ity,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB SSD G2 64 + 2000GB SAMSUNG HD204UI + 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,60GB OCZ VERTEX2,160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M,160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M,160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M,320GB HITACHI HTS54323 + 80GB INTEL SSDMAEMC08 Graphics,,ATI Device 9456,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1800MHz),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),AMD Radeon HD 4870,AMD Radeon HD 4870,AMD Radeon HD 4870,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP Audio,,ATI R6xx HDMI,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Realtek ALC889,Conexant CX20590 Monitor,,DELL S2409W,,,,,,VA2431,VA2431,VA2431,SyncMaster Network,,,Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Realtek RTL8111/8168B,Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS,,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.10,n/a n/a Kernel,,3.1.0-rc10-ic-aliasing-patch+ (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-11-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.0-ARCH (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 4.22.0,Unity 3.8.10,,Unity 4.22.0,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 3.8.10,Unity 4.22.0,Unity 4.22.0,Unity 4.22.0,GNOME Shell 3.2.1 Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.1,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.11.1.901 (1.11.2 RC 1) Display Driver,,radeon 6.14.99,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 1.0.0,NVIDIA 285.05.09,NVIDIA 270.41.06,NVIDIA 270.41.06,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.99,radeon 6.14.99,intel 2.16.0 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,,4.2.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.06,2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-983fa4a) Compiler,,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.6.1 + llvm 2.9 File-System,,ext4,ext4,xfs,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,2048x1152 ,,"2 x AMD Opteron 2384","AMD A8-3850","AMD FX-4100","AMD FX-8150","Intel Core i5 2400S","Intel Core i5 2500K","Intel Core i7 920","Intel Core i7 970","Intel Core i7 990X","Intel Core i3 2100" "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,63.13,103.60,106.75,51.06,70.11,53.39,67.31,38.66,35.81,174.78 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,112,216,211,103,187,144,149,82,76,343 "POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,1291,1161,913,823,784,701,931,788,730,1241 "TSCP - AI Chess Performance (Nodes/s)",HIB,227914,247942,293780,314874,471073,528780,287522,340322,366208,300446 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,111,115,123,165,131,159,127,158,171,87 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,72,71,87,99,76,94,91,114,124,58 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,56,44,44,68,39,50,60,86,92,29 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,100,98,92,133,101,125,110,142,153,71 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,63,47,44,65,37,47,59,88,94,29 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,1987000,2645333,3523667,3678333,4101333,4668667,3100667,3653667,3928333,2551667 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,12249,13466,14082,15490,12697,14191,13074,15575,16773,8067 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,806,852,866,1002,794,890,819,972,1044,518 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,50.75,52.93,63.65,68.75,77.63,86.55,45.40,53.65,57.95,49.40 "Gcrypt Library - CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher (us)",LIB,,4100,3777,,3050,2720,,,,3683 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,16106,9488,8877,17753,10060,12670,13246,21959,22936,5782 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,36.27,31.19,28.69,27.02,21.29,18.98,28.87,24.43,22.62,34.21 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,10.07,8.51,8.75,7.85,6.98,6.22,9.83,8.28,7.69,10.81 "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,30.17,29.04,16.50,10.10,17.28,16.43,20.36,23.45,23.16,22.62 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,81.62,47.71,50.19,102.23,61.62,76.03,74.13,119.59,128.91,32.14 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,35.89,33.16,28.86,26.65,22.00,19.66,28.32,23.99,22.26,34.81 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,10040.55,7400.05,5982.31,11240.21,9419.50,11798.80,9056.99,12595.47,13393.49,4405.44 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2225.57,1455.24,1788.94,2803.63,2333.07,2680.08,1630.43,1608.52,1839.55,1083.00 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,154.23,84.21,78.97,164.60,104.23,136.32,159.88,275.39,298.24,63.43 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,6143.56,4124.04,3785.19,6593.08,4970.15,6199.94,3282.77,3251.19,3948.48,2282.65 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,71.25,97.05,99.91,108.11,164.27,183.57,115.93,132.74,146.95,80.46 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,8546.31,5899.28,6058.10,11693.80,7825.54,9834.04,8493.23,10213.83,11661.48,4150.84 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,4368.13,3534.66,3645.03,4484.59,6116.87,6517.09,4050.51,4350.65,4518.03,2697.41 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3563.44,3553.27,3735.79,5495.79,5362.26,6132.67,3984.14,4304.01,4793.19,2772.76 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,38.22,20.94,21.48,38.70,31.31,37.28,32.20,49.86,53.29,16.45 "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,3.39,2.97,2.31,2.44,2.76,3.19,5.27,5.28,5.52,3.25 "OpenArena - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,330.30,,456.10,524.33,565.67,,,,65.27 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: No - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,,166.93,,174.74,185.12,187.39,,,,12.11 "Lightsmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,371.43,,500.83,536.77,546.15,,,, "Unigine Sanctuary - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,76.64,,,76.68,76.78,,,, "Unigine Tropics - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FPS)",HIB,,64.31,,,64.11,64.17,,,,