The Vishera Review: AMD FX-8350, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300 Tested
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 23, 2012 12:00 AM ESTGeneral Use Performance
We'll start out our tests with the 7-zip benchmark, a CPU bound multithreaded integer workload that looks at 7-zip compression/decompression algorithms where the IO subsystem is removed from the equation:
7-zip is almost the perfect scenario for AMD's Vishera: a heavily threaded integer benchmark. Here the FX-8350 is able to outperform the Core i7 3770K. In fact, all of the Vishera parts are able to outperform their price competitive Ivy Bridge alternatives. The old Core i7 920 does pretty well here thanks to its 8-thread architecture.
Next up is Mozilla's Kraken JavaScript benchmark. This test includes some forward looking js code designed to showcase performance of future rich web applications on today's software and hardware. We run the test under IE10:
If the 7-zip benchmark is the best case scenario for AMD, Mozilla's Kraken test is among the worst. Largely dominated by single threaded performance, the FX-8350 is significantly slower than a Core i3 3220. Only Intel's old Core i7 920 is slower here, and that's a chip that debuted in 2008.
Although not the best indication of overall system performance, the SYSMark 2012 suite does give us a good idea of lighter workloads than we're used to testing.
Overall performance according to SYSMark 2012 is within striking distance of Ivy Bridge, at least for the FX-8350. AMD seems to have equalled the performance of last year's 2500K, and is able to deliver almost 90% of the performance of the 3750K. It's not a win by any means, but AMD is inching closer.
Par2 File Recovery Performance
Par2 is an application used for reconstructing downloaded archives. It can generate parity data from a given archive and later use it to recover the archive
Chuchusoft took the source code of par2cmdline 0.4 and parallelized it using Intel’s Threading Building Blocks 2.1. The result is a version of par2cmdline that can spawn multiple threads to repair par2 archives. For this test we took a 708MB archive, corrupted nearly 60MB of it, and used the multithreaded par2cmdline to recover it. The scores reported are the repair and recover time in seconds.
Crank up the threads and once again you see Vishera do quite well. The FX-8350 outpaces the Core i5 3570, and the FX-4300 falls only slightly behind the Core i3 3220.
Excel Math Performance
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CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - link
You simpletons all have the same hate filled idiot theory - so let me ask you - since amd has competition, WHY DO THEY SUCK SO BADLY ?Somehow you idiots claim, that if amd wasn't around, intel would suck. "Amd has made intel great"
Well, wait a minute - Intel is around, it's great, AND AMD SUCKS.
Take a moment, look in the mirror, think about it.... then let me know how red you turned... if not at all, contraception from here on out is a must.
How are you people so stupid ? How is it possible ?
Ukdude21 - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - link
You the biggest idiot on this website. I have read many comments on this website but yours are the most idiotic intel fanboy stained comments ever.halbhh2 - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - link
If power use is important to you, you should know that different reviews give different results for the power use vs competing intel chips.A couple of sites even have equal or lower idle power draw for the 8350 vs i7 3770.
Trying to figure out why, one variable is the motherboard. Is the Crosshair V a power hog?
I also looked at yearly cost in electrical use for my own useage.
The only thing I do that pegs multiple cores at 100% is chess analysis. In Deep Fritz the 8350 is close in performance to the i7 3770.
I do chess analysis about 1-5 hours a week on average, perhaps 200 hours per year.
The math is very simple. Power costs 16 cents per kilowatt hour. Peak power useage would cost an extra $3/year roughly vs an intel rig for me. Since I'd use a more power efficient motherboard than the Asus Crosshair, idle power is reasonable. I standby a lot when not using also.
An 8350 would cost me in the range of $4-$8 more per year in power bills vs an i7 3770 (it's competitor for chess analysis).
CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - link
So go ahead and destroy the earth, see if any humans care.Ukdude21 - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - link
If you are the worried about the earth why don't you give your pc away. Least then we would not have to read your shit comments lol.taltamir - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - link
Starting the power cosumption graphs at 50 watt instead of 0 watt is GROSSLY MISLEADING! and very unfair to AMD.Lack of performance per watt comparison is unfair to Intel. Yea, AMD finally is able to, at stock, beat intel on some benchmarks... But they consume significantly more power to do so (intel could easily start selling higher clocked parts too)
pcfxer - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - link
If I ever build a new machine...it looks like I'll swing towards my first ever Intel box...hrmmm the anticipation may make me do it just for fun even though my Phenom II X555BE Unlocked and OC'd to 3.5GHz serves me just fine.OCedHrt - Friday, October 26, 2012 - link
it would be nice if they were normalized to idle power usage since we are comparing CPU power usage.halbhh2 - Friday, October 26, 2012 - link
I got curious about the idle power and visited 7 sites to look at reviews. No 2 sites had the same idle power difference between the 8350 vs the i7 3770. Values ranged from 9 watts AMD *lower* (lower! than intel) to 22 watts higher. The higher readings seemed to all be with the Asus Crosshair V, which logically must be a power hog.You should consider the idle power numbers *not* representative. Unreliable.
danrien - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link
Seems like its server opteron cousin would be kick-ass.