FX-8350 Benchmarks and review

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Texanman

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Let me explain my self first. I am a long time forum viewer and finally took the time to make an account. Last week here in Austin, AMD held a Fan day to promote the brand and others in the area. Everyone at the event received an A8-5600k and a motherboard thanks to gigabyte! Another prize they were handing out was the FX-8350 with water cooling kit. I happen to have one and plan on using it in my system.

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http://imgur.com/a/25iPL

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CPU-Z has not been updated to reflect the new Vishera code name

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I have applied the microsoft FX patch to my machine
computer specs:
2x 4gb Gskill ripjaw 1866
EVGA Nvidia 570 oc edition
Corsair 750 v2 psu
Noctura cpu cooler
Asrock 990fx Extreme4
180gb Corsair force 3 ssd - system + some games
60gb ocz vertex 3 ssd - rest of my games
1.5TB seagate green drive sata 3 - data storage


Temps-
Idle temps
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With a kill-a-watt my whole system is at 160w


Benchmarks-

I am currently doing benchmarks and will upload the results here as I just installed the cpu in my system about 30ish minutes ago. If there are any game benchmarks or other benchmarks please let me know and I can go ahead and perform them because I do not know all the benchmarks in the world :D Just make note that this is not a clean system so the benchmarks will be kinda close to real world

wprime @ 32million digits http://www.wprime.net/Scores/14960/View

Cinebench x64

Single thread
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Muti thread (8)
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Sort of unstable in its current state because I do not feel like playing around with it BUT this is overclocked to 4.5 and 4.6 tubro
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Winrar, superpi, geekbench benchmarks here
 
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I think you have the ms patch. Cinebench shows 4 cores 8 threads. If you werent patched it shows 8 cores 8 threads. It did on my system.
 
I, personally, am rather curious how the same benchmarks will do on Windows 8, with a scheduler that was intended to work that way. The Win7 patch has shown to really not do much unfortunately.
 
Are you taking requests for benchmarks? :)
If so can you do a photoshop test? Lightroom if you have it?
 
Formula.350 said:
I, personally, am rather curious how the same benchmarks will do on Windows 8, with a scheduler that was intended to work that way. The Win7 patch has shown to really not do much unfortunately.
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I highly doubt the Windows 8 scheduler will net much of an improvement either.

Anyways, looking at the results and comparing it to the [H] tests, it looks like the FX-8350 matches the 2600k at stock in multithreaded.
 
Nice, excited to see more benchmarks, as well as overclocking.

Are you useing the noctura cooler or the AMD Watercooler?
 
Darakian said:
Are you taking requests for benchmarks? :)
If so can you do a photoshop test? Lightroom if you have it?
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Unfortunately I don't have any modern Photoshop. I am still rocking cs3

leeleatherwood said:
Nice, excited to see more benchmarks, as well as overclocking.

Are you useing the noctura cooler or the AMD Watercooler?
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Using the noctura cooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608016) because I didn't feel like taking out the motherboard to put in a new bracket

Tsumi said:
Let's get some overclocked results :D
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I do plan eventually gimme a day to play some games with it :D
 
All of them if you can. As I recall it boots to a desktop and you click a big button that says something to the effect of "Run all". It should also generate a report at the end of it.
It's pretty straight forward
 
Darakian said:
All of them if you can. As I recall it boots to a desktop and you click a big button that says something to the effect of "Run all". It should also generate a report at the end of it.
It's pretty straight forward
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Yeah, it's a live CD. You either burn to a CD/DVD or use a USB memory stick and boot into it. Then, it should run the benchmarks after clicking something.

I haven't used it in a while. You could use Tuxboot or Unetbootin to make the bootable USB memory stick.
 
octoberasian said:
Yeah, it's a live CD. You either burn to a CD/DVD or use a USB memory stick and boot into it. Then, it should run the benchmarks after clicking something.

I haven't used it in a while. You could use Tuxboot or Unetbootin to make the bootable USB memory stick.
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Well yah of course you would use that.. I was talking more about the benchmarks in the suite...



Anyways I decided to overclock roughly to 4.5 and 4.6 turbo just to run cinebench benchmark.. After the 3rd run my computer locked up BUT it did get a nicer score. Uploaded it to the first post.
 
nice score on the free 8350.
if you're taking requests for benchmark suites, think you can run these? i understand you've run a couple already.

CINEBENCH 11.5 x64
http://www.maxon.net/products/cinebench/overview.html
- CPU (single core) points:
- CPU (MP Ratio) points:

Fritz Chess Bench 4.3 x32
http://www.jens-hartmann.at/Fritzmarks/
- relative speed:
- kilo nodes p/s:

Geekbench2.3.4 (32bit trial version)
http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/
- Total Geekbench points:
- Integer:
- Floating Point:
- Memory:
- Stream:

MaxxMEM v1.99 x32 (only able to find download link on ru forum site)
http://occlub.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=859
- Copy (Mbyte/sec):
- Read (Mbyte/sec):
- Write (Mbyte/sec):
- Latency (ns):

wPrime 2.09 x32
know you've already done this one, but score looks off. my 1100 @ stock scores better than the 9.2sec you got. for 1100 i got 9.034secs. check that the thread count = 8.
http://www.wprime.net/
- 32M (secs):
- 1024M (secs):

Super PI / mod 1.5 x32
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/366/
- 1M seconds:

WinRAR 4.2 x64
http://download.cnet.com/WinRAR-64-bit/3000-2250_4-10965579.html
- Bench - Resulting KB/s:

x264 HD Benchmark 5.0.1 (not sure if x64 tho it's a cmd exe if that matters)
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=520&pgno=0#download
to run the benchmark, AviSynth 2.5.8 needs to be installed.

Pass 1
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encoded 1442 frames:
encoded 1442 frames:
encoded 1442 frames:
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Pass 2
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encoded 1442 frames:
encoded 1442 frames:
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if you have the time and inclination, run the bench at a few different settings;
-stock
-stock tweaked (increase both the 'HT link' & 'NB/CPU Frequency' to 2400MHz or 2600MHz)
-overclocked (highest OC obtainable to run bench without crash, maybe disable 'turbo')

probably a lot to ask so no biggie if you can't be arsed. be nice to have a preview of this chip tho.
 
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Also, can you set it to 3.8Ghz (constant), to compare against some clock for clock numbers I have?

Fritz chess,
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AIDA64,
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Nuclearus,
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All those numbers are bios defaults, 3.8 clock for clock with same mem speed, and top overall stable OC with top stable memory, all using the same HDD, OS, etc... Some results may be missing if I didnt have time to finish with that CPU.
 
Cecil said:
Download the new CPU-Z, 1.61.5 is out.
http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/1.61-setup-en.exe
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Yes but still the wrong codename



aphasia said:
nice score on the free 8350.
if you're taking requests for benchmark suites, think you can run these? i understand you've run a couple already.

CINEBENCH 11.5 x64
http://www.maxon.net/products/cinebench/overview.html
- CPU (single core) points:
- CPU (MP Ratio) points:

Fritz Chess Bench 4.3 x32
http://www.jens-hartmann.at/Fritzmarks/
- relative speed:
- kilo nodes p/s:

Geekbench2.3.4 (32bit trial version)
http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/
- Total Geekbench points:
- Integer:
- Floating Point:
- Memory:
- Stream:

MaxxMEM v1.99 x32 (only able to find download link on ru forum site)
http://occlub.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=859
- Copy (Mbyte/sec):
- Read (Mbyte/sec):
- Write (Mbyte/sec):
- Latency (ns):

wPrime 2.09 x32
know you've already done this one, but score looks off. my 1100 @ stock scores better than the 9.2sec you got. for 1100 i got 9.034secs. check that the thread count = 8.
http://www.wprime.net/
- 32M (secs):
- 1024M (secs):

Super PI / mod 1.5 x32
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/366/
- 1M seconds:

WinRAR 4.2 x64
http://download.cnet.com/WinRAR-64-bit/3000-2250_4-10965579.html
- Bench - Resulting KB/s:

x264 HD Benchmark 5.0.1 (not sure if x64 tho it's a cmd exe if that matters)
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=520&pgno=0#download
to run the benchmark, AviSynth 2.5.8 needs to be installed.

Pass 1
------
encoded 1442 frames:
encoded 1442 frames:
encoded 1442 frames:
encoded 1442 frames:

Pass 2
------
encoded 1442 frames:
encoded 1442 frames:
encoded 1442 frames:
encoded 1442 frames:



if you have the time and inclination, run the bench at a few different settings;
-stock
-stock tweaked (increase both the 'HT link' & 'NB/CPU Frequency' to 2400MHz or 2600MHz)
-overclocked (highest OC obtainable to run bench without crash, maybe disable 'turbo')

probably a lot to ask so no biggie if you can't be arsed. be nice to have a preview of this chip tho.
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Fritz chess @ stock- Speed = 27.13, Kilo nodes = 13020
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Running x264 benchmark now... The x64 version refuses to run so I am using the x32 bit version till i figure out why
Will add others as I do them
 
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Grats! Have two builds pending this CPU and wanted to give you props for sharing all this data. Haven't even read the benches yet; about to right now! Now let's see what's good in here:)
 
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Results for x264.exe r2200
x264 Benchmark: 32-bit
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Pass 1
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encoded 5906 frames, 47.22 fps, 7779.53 kb/s
encoded 5906 frames, 47.78 fps, 7779.53 kb/s
encoded 5906 frames, 47.15 fps, 7779.53 kb/s
encoded 5906 frames, 47.91 fps, 7779.53 kb/s

Pass 2
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encoded 5906 frames, 15.36 fps, 8002.11 kb/s
encoded 5906 frames, 15.38 fps, 8002.11 kb/s
encoded 5906 frames, 15.37 fps, 8002.11 kb/s
encoded 5906 frames, 15.34 fps, 8002.11 kb/s


Is there a way to change the frames? I just ran it and hoped for the best. I also got the x64 version working and will try that next
 
Also like to say thanks for throwing this together. Here is one AMD fanboy with fingers and toes crossed that this thing performs well. Please please please please please.....

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HvyMtl said:
Nice that you are doing this. It is appreciated!
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Just love the way AMD cpus work. I upgraded my 955 to this fx-8350, and in turn I will upgrade my server downstairs from its semptron to the 955. Cant do that this easily on intel :D
 
Personally I do not like 3dmark as a benchmark do to the time it takes to install the program and due to its past biases to companies in the past. However I do plan on overlocking more once the product hits the general market due to the fact that I do not want to damage my part and not be able to replace it :p

Will update the x264 scores once I get home. I ran them before I left
 
How high can you overclock at stock voltages (include LLC settings used please, and disable turbo) and maintain full stability? That should give us an idea of how high it can overclock.
 
If you want a real-world CPU-bottlenecked game bench, the Dolphin Wind Waker benchmark is a simple pre-compiled & configured build of Dolphin made just for CPU benchmarking. The only thing you really need to know (other than clicking "open" and selecting your game ISO) is Enter = Start, X = confirm selection, and arrow keys = move selection.
http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/showthread.php?tid=25339

Even better if you posted your screenshots in the Dolphin thread. If not then I can post them for you. :)
 
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Nintendo Maniac 64 said:
If you want a real-world CPU-bottlenecked game bench, the Dolphin Wind Waker benchmark is a simple pre-compiled & configured build of Dolphin made just for CPU benchmarking. The only thing you really need to know (other than clicking "open" and selecting your game ISO) is Enter = Start, X = confirm selection, and arrow keys = move selection.
http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/showthread.php?tid=25339

Even better if you posted your screenshots in the Dolphin thread. If not then I can post them for you. :)
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Definitely gaming emulators. Regardless whether or not you are against it, emulators especially ones for the PS2 and Wii are very CPU-bound. It's a great way to see how well your processor can emulate a console.
 
Texanman said:
Just love the way AMD cpus work. I upgraded my 955 to this fx-8350, and in turn I will upgrade my server downstairs from its semptron to the 955. Cant do that this easily on intel :D
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So would you say it would be worth upgrading for the price? I have a 955 as well, main use would be gaming (BF3 multi ;D).
 
LAiN_OfTheWired said:
Just for reference/comparison, ran wPrime on my 2600K (stock 3.4GhZ) and got 6.903 seconds.

http://www.wprime.net/Scores/14976/View

Let the "you're a troll/fanboy" BS begin :D (not my intention, but its bound to happen)
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nothing wrong with posting that, was hoping some one would just to give an idea because i'm lazy and didn't want to search for the numbers myself, lol.
 
remoteman213 said:
So would you say it would be worth upgrading for the price? I have a 955 as well, main use would be gaming (BF3 multi ;D).
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Depends on the price. Overall its a major upgrade for me from my 955. Videos are taking much less time to encode now :)




Here are a few more benchmarks another user wanted

Winrar stock
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Winrar @ 4.5ghz
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Superpi stock
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Superpi @ 4.5ghz
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Chess @ 4.5ghz
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Geekbench stock
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1156553

Geekbench @ 4.5ghz
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1156506

edit: started adding watermarks because some other sites are using my images
 
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