AMD FX-8350 Piledriver Multi-Core Scaling AMD FX-8350 Vishera Piledriver benchmarking of the eight-core processor when testing with exposing 2, 4, 6, and 8 cores. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. 2 Cores: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 4 Cores: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 6 Cores: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 8 Cores: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.8.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 fx8150 8core: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.61GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX, Chipset: AMD nee ATI RD890, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-9YN1 + 60GB Corsair CSSD-F60, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (400/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ...... 52.91 |============== 4 Cores ...... 107.09 |============================ 6 Cores ...... 158.70 |========================================== 8 Cores ...... 211.05 |======================================================== fx8150 8core . 202.57 |====================================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ...... 1979.00 |==================================== 4 Cores ...... 2881.42 |==================================================== 6 Cores ...... 3042.23 |======================================================= 8 Cores ...... 2859.67 |==================================================== fx8150 8core . 2534.56 |============================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ...... 3217.42 |=================== 4 Cores ...... 5976.27 |==================================== 6 Cores ...... 7856.37 |=============================================== 8 Cores ...... 9210.72 |======================================================= fx8150 8core . 7337.15 |============================================ CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ...... 1.66 |================================ 4 Cores ...... 2.69 |=================================================== 6 Cores ...... 3.03 |========================================================== 8 Cores ...... 2.95 |======================================================== fx8150 8core . 2.23 |=========================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ...... 34.48 |========================================================= 4 Cores ...... 21.58 |==================================== 6 Cores ...... 13.68 |======================= 8 Cores ...... 11.63 |=================== fx8150 8core . 13.50 |====================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ...... 40.94 |=================== 4 Cores ...... 69.00 |================================= 6 Cores ...... 96.26 |============================================== 8 Cores ...... 117.67 |======================================================== fx8150 8core . 117.93 |======================================================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ...... 12.33 |============================== 4 Cores ...... 19.20 |============================================== 6 Cores ...... 22.57 |======================================================= 8 Cores ...... 23.60 |========================================================= fx8150 8core . 20.14 |================================================= x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ...... 43.98 |================ 4 Cores ...... 84.11 |============================== 6 Cores ...... 121.72 |============================================ 8 Cores ...... 156.02 |======================================================== fx8150 8core . 134.16 |================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 58 |===================================== 4 Cores . 81 |==================================================== 6 Cores . 93 |============================================================ 8 Cores . 100 |================================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 24 |======================= 4 Cores . 42 |========================================= 6 Cores . 55 |===================================================== 8 Cores . 67 |================================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 78 |====================================== 4 Cores . 108 |==================================================== 6 Cores . 123 |============================================================ 8 Cores . 132 |================================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 130 |==================================================== 4 Cores . 148 |=========================================================== 6 Cores . 157 |============================================================== 8 Cores . 161 |================================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better 2 Cores . 54 |================================= 4 Cores . 80 |================================================ 6 Cores . 96 |========================================================== 8 Cores . 106 |================================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ...... 571.34 |=================================================== 4 Cores ...... 590.75 |===================================================== 6 Cores ...... 627.59 |======================================================== 8 Cores ...... 628.96 |======================================================== fx8150 8core . 618.03 |======================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ...... 301.16 |======================================================== 4 Cores ...... 155.03 |============================= 6 Cores ...... 106.55 |==================== 8 Cores ...... 82.84 |=============== fx8150 8core . 91.61 |================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ...... 125.03 |======================================================== 4 Cores ...... 62.45 |============================ 6 Cores ...... 41.65 |=================== 8 Cores ...... 31.27 |============== fx8150 8core . 46.72 |===================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ...... 31.19 |========================================================= 4 Cores ...... 16.02 |============================= 6 Cores ...... 10.55 |=================== 8 Cores ...... 8.13 |=============== fx8150 8core . 8.73 |================ Primesieve 4.0 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ...... 665.46 |======================================================== 4 Cores ...... 333.28 |============================ 6 Cores ...... 222.42 |=================== 8 Cores ...... 166.85 |============== fx8150 8core . 187.00 |================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 Cores ...... 369 |=========================================================== 4 Cores ...... 184 |============================= 6 Cores ...... 123 |==================== 8 Cores ...... 92 |=============== fx8150 8core . 103 |================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better 2 Cores ...... 949.92 |============ 4 Cores ...... 1512.24 |=================== 6 Cores ...... 2457.71 |============================== 8 Cores ...... 2532.85 |=============================== fx8150 8core . 4495.61 |=======================================================