Monday, December 19th 2011
AMD FX 8150 with Microsoft KB2592546 Put Through 'Before and After' Patch Tests
To the surprise of many, last week, Microsoft rolled out a patch (KB2592546) for Windows that it claimed would improve performance of systems running AMD processors based on the "Bulldozer" architecture. The patch works by making the OS aware of the way Bulldozer cores are structured, so it could effectively make use of the parallelism at its disposal. Sadly, a couple of days later, it pulled that patch. Meanwhile, SweClockers got enough time to do a "before and after" performance test of the AMD FX-8150 processor, using this patch.
The results of SweClockers' tests are tabled below. "tidigare" is before, "nytt" is after, and "skillnad" is change. The reviewer put the chip through a wide range of tests, including synthetic CPU-intensive tests (both single and multi-threaded), and real-world gaming performance tests. The results are less than impressive. Perhaps, that's why the patch was redacted.
Source:
SweClockers
The results of SweClockers' tests are tabled below. "tidigare" is before, "nytt" is after, and "skillnad" is change. The reviewer put the chip through a wide range of tests, including synthetic CPU-intensive tests (both single and multi-threaded), and real-world gaming performance tests. The results are less than impressive. Perhaps, that's why the patch was redacted.
96 Comments on AMD FX 8150 with Microsoft KB2592546 Put Through 'Before and After' Patch Tests
But I guess you are right . I do think that AMD will get it all sorted out soon and every one with a BD will be happy . SOON ! Just have to wait till they get it together is all . Pulling a bad patch that lowered performance was a good thing IMHO .
it does seem to be the same people continuously on here, in every AMD thread ,essentially just repeatedly sayin "AMD's shit haha" , they should just copy and paste that then repost it as and when
and this is the only relevant comment
techreport.com/articles.x/21865/2
when you're running between 2 and 6 threads on an 8-module bulldozer CPU, it seems to be best to spread them out as much as you can (mask 55 in the graphs) as opposing to having 2 threads on 1 module and 1 module sitting idle.
Take it with a grain of salt though, they may be cherry-picked benchmarks
O well desktops have better graphics cards. :toast:
www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html
I don't expect actual proper improvements until piledriver.
I had a feeling that the first patch would get botched. Things of that nature always get pulled or have some sort of fault upon first release that requires patching.
I await patiently.
There is all so the point that VBS1 (even in it's heavily modified state) is one of the worsted games to do benchmarks with
They just had to tease us with an improper release. :banghead:
( decided to step down to 4.3ghz as it can be done on stock volts even with this rubbish bios I'm using)
If I had better cooling I could easily clock this chip to 5ghz and beyond so will be equivalent to a 4.5ghz 6 core phenom at most tasks :)
It's not bad when you bare in mind that it's supposed to have higher clocks.
Amd aint a baf co. bd aint...needs work . These public ...punking of amd aint helping though. Love the gpus but spirite was wrpng. Image do count for something. Even if bd is fixed tommorrow...the jokes will continue. Amd..so advanced that by the time u figure out how to use it properly....its,obsolete. Now microsoft inadvertly punks them.... Though year
Cept it over clocks 1ghz more ;)
It really isn't all that bad, it's £30 more for an fx8120 over a 1100t here.
It's definitely worth the £30 difference for me anyway, and that's before any patches.
I mean some programs do really suck on it, but in general it's pretty nice.
+ I like to run lots of programs at once because hitting the close button/cancel button is to much effort.
IMO, I can see this 2-part patch giving today’s Bulldozer a 10% on average performance boost.
Piledriver getting another 20% to 30% performance boost over Bulldozer.
Excavator getting another 10% to 15% performance boost over Piledriver.