Wednesday, January 11th 2012
Very quietly Microsoft has released two new patches available for the Bulldozer platform. According to the AMD blog these patches seem to offer little more then a 10% boost but the do improve over all performance. This is what Adam Kozak a product marketing manager at AMD had to say,

"Some of you may remember that AMD FX processors use a unique dual-core module architecture codenamed “Bulldozer”, which current versions of Windows® 7 were not specifically architected to utilize. In essence, for those with an AMD FX-8150 Processor, for example, Windows 7 sees the eight available cores and randomly assigns threads to them.

In initial testing of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system, we’ve seen performance improvements of up to 10% in some applications, when compared to Windows 7. This is because the system correctly recognizes the AMD FX processor architecture and cores. Thanks to close collaboration between Microsoft and AMD, Microsoft recently completed back-porting some of the Windows 8 scheduler code for AMD FX processors into a hotfix for Windows 7."
Here are the directions given by Adam Kozak,
So if you have an AMD FX processor, here’s what you can do to update your version of Windows 7:

1) Download the scheduler update (KB2645594) and install. This will tell the scheduler that your AMD FX processor contains dual-core modules (in fact this is similar to the SMT path that the other guys use). In essence, threads 1-4 now get assigned to their own module first.

2) Download the core parking scheduler update (KB2646060) and install. This will prevent Windows 7 shutting down unused cores prematurely when there are threads to be assigned (there’s a performance penalty parking and then un-parking a core).

The best possible cases for improvement are applications that use ½ cores in your AMD FX processor. In our testing using the AMD FX-8150 processor, we found the best improvement in wPrime, Left 4 Dead 2, and Lost Planet. Below you’ll find links to the patches:

Patch 1
Patch 2

Source: AMD Blog
posted by TheMailMan78 - 10:24 PM |  Related News

User comments
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by meirb111 (10:41 PM) - Reply
10% is not even close to be called good, its still a bad product
by TheLaughingMan (10:43 PM) - Reply
The FX-8150 is not a bad product. It is a new design and it has some quirks. Glad to see they are working to resolve these quirks. I hope these updates the task scheduler fixes the issue I have with Deus Ex.
by InnocentCriminal (10:46 PM) - Reply
So, does this pay dividends?
by Lionheart (10:47 PM) - Reply
Was wondering when this would come out, not like I need it but I bet whoever owns a derpdozer wants to test it out ^_^
by Disruptor4 (10:50 PM) - Reply
So who is willing to do an extensive test to see if or what kinda of improvements there are.
by techtard (10:53 PM) - Reply
Bring on the benches. As for this product being a failure, it isn't. For your everyday user, the new FX chips will get the job done. The only failure was fanboys pumping this chip up as the second coming of Athlon, the Intel slaying super processor. Didn't live up to the hype, but it's a decent chip with a full-featured modern platform. But, if you are a gamer and want the absolute best FPS, get an i5-2500k.
by AphexDreamer (10:58 PM) - Reply
I see no download in the provided links. I must be blind.
by TheLaughingMan (11:00 PM) - Reply
by: techtard
Bring on the benches. As for this product being a failure, it isn't. For your everyday user, the new FX chips will get the job done. The only failure was fanboys pumping this chip up as the second coming of Athlon, the Intel slaying super processor. Didn't live up to the hype, but it's a decent chip with a full-featured modern platform. But, if you are a gamer and want the absolute best FPS, get an i7-2600k.
Fixed
by OneCool (11:00 PM) - Reply
It all comes down to Intel having hyperthreading and AMD dont (because they cant patients,copyright blah blah).This CPU was to designed to fight that and its not fairing so well on its first go round.
by johnspack (11:02 PM) - Reply
I was amd only since my amd286-20 oced... so disappointed. No further comment.....
by D4S4 (11:02 PM) - Reply
omfg here we go again... :shadedshu
by suraswami (11:06 PM) - Reply
by: D4S4
omfg here we go again... :shadedshu
Thats an AMD curse, any thread you post that says somewhere the word 'AMD', intel sh*****s unload their p**p.
by AphexDreamer (11:07 PM) - Reply
LINK PLEASE! This news is to new for google. .
by 1Kurgan1 (11:07 PM) - Reply
by: D4S4
omfg here we go again... :shadedshu
Pretty sure the last time they released one, they retracted it and said they did so because it was a 2 part patch that they would be releasing at a later time. Yet it seems surprising to you that the 2 part patch is now here... mind boggling
by TRWOV (11:09 PM) - Reply
by TheMailMan78 (11:09 PM) - Reply
by: AphexDreamer
LINK PLEASE! This news is to new for google. .
Yup. Just like last time we are the first to break the story.
by D4S4 (11:15 PM) - Reply
by: 1Kurgan1
Pretty sure the last time they released one, they retracted it and said they did so because it was a 2 part patch that they would be releasing at a later time. Yet it seems surprising to you that the 2 part patch is now here... mind boggling
i'm just getting tired of all the BD bs threads, that's all. not that i'm saying the bulldozer or the patches are bullshit, what people write and how many pages the thread has is.
by micropage7 (11:17 PM) - Reply
thats kinda sad, thats why people say WINTEL = windows with intel windows should support both
by happita (11:32 PM) - Reply
by: techtard
Bring on the benches. As for this product being a failure, it isn't. For your everyday user, the new FX chips will get the job done. The only failure was fanboys pumping this chip up as the second coming of Athlon, the Intel slaying super processor. Didn't live up to the hype, but it's a decent chip with a full-featured modern platform. But, if you are a gamer and want the absolute best FPS, get an i7-2700k.
Fixed again.
by Regeneration (11:35 PM) - Reply
Got both updates mirrored here.
by Tweety (11:50 PM) - Reply
Windows CPU score went from 7.4 to 7.5... for free :)
by NielsCnossen (12:04 AM) - Reply
I got 7.6 with a Phenom II 1055T :)
by Tweety (12:11 AM) - Reply
7.5 now for an FX6100@4.25Ghz...
by Damn_Smooth (12:11 AM) - Reply
by: TheLaughingMan
[QUOTE=techtard;2513410]Bring on the benches. As for this product being a failure, it isn't. For your everyday user, the new FX chips will get the job done. The only failure was fanboys pumping this chip up as the second coming of Athlon, the Intel slaying super processor. Didn't live up to the hype, but it's a decent chip with a full-featured modern platform. But, if you are a gamer and want the absolute best FPS, wait for an i7-3770k.
Fixed[/quote]Really fixed.
by seronx (12:12 AM) - Reply
Guys this was a prerelease again you need to wait for the third patch which will increase performance by 400% in workloads that involve quantum unreality
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