AMD FX (Bulldozer) Processors Explained

Before we get the review out the way, which is also online as we speak, we wanted to show you how AMD are marketing this range of processors and what the FX branding is all about. In a nutshell, it seems that not much has changed in terms of FX as it still represents AMD’s higher-end market and identifies AMD’s flagship range of desktop processing products.

They were also keen to show the real-world benefits of the FX range, mainly with the FX-8150 and how it compares to the Intel Core i5 2500 and i7 2600k, but also how it differs in giving a slightly better bang for buck based off what is down on paper.

On paper, it all looks very promising, but some initial leaked benchmarks saw the FX8150 falling behind the i7 2600k dramatically in the majority of tests including gaming and 3DMark suites. With multhreaded enabled tests, it did show some promise but how true these are, you will have to look at our real, legitimate benchmarks.

A unique feature (or so we thought) was the inclusion of the AMD FX series all-in-one liquid cooler that we spoke about recently until Intel decided that they would be introducing the same with their Core i7 3000 series of CPU’s, code-named Sandy Bridge-E.

Other news that hit recently was that Intel plan to Bulldoze the Bulldozer launch by releasing the i7 2700k at the same time which will offer a cherry picked i7 processor that should see slightly better overclocks than the 2600k on air, up to 300MHz in fact.

It’s all these little things that make us wonder how AMD are going to survive in this market, but without the true facts and figures in front of you, a decision can’t be made fully. Being the launch day today however, we have catered for just that and invite you to check out the AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer review soon which will lay out all of the facts and benchmarks for you.