AMD FX 8120 + Geforce GTX 680 Gaming Performance - Page 6

It depends on the game. I'm guessing you missed the thread of the guy with an FX-8120 (or 8150 can't remember) with dual 6990's running BF3 and showed screenshots of the gpu usage being in the 90% range

3way cfx with X79/Z68/990FX (Click to show)
We do know SLI generally requires a bit more CPU power than CFX does but still, even with CFX you can still see that BD isn't up there. The techpowerup 7970 scaling review has shown that you can also see differences between SB and BD with single GPU setups. To what extent depends on the game of course.

E: also, I'm not a mod in this section but guys please, keep the discussion civil.

I agree that a higher powered CPU will generally yield better results but that is far from a "failure" by bulldozer. Also I think it's interesting to note that the proper comparison would be a 2500K vs an 8150 and yet those results are vs a 2600K and higher. Still I fail to see how "AMD sucks" at gaming or multi-gpu setups as many have suggested or outright said.

Now all the bulldozer guys will say. "Well its over 60fps so who cares"

I think if the intel church could just get over their hardware insecurities, they'd see that the FX line is no where near as bad as people make it out to be. Too often you see the intel camp presenting weighted opinions and emotion as fact. I would suggest they try an FX for themselves, and then draw their conclusions as there far too many biased and unfair reviews out there.


Here.. THIS IS QUAD GPU'S FOLKS!

Edited by 2advanced - 6/10/12 at 2:54pm

And how does that in any way show how a 2500K is so much better at crossfire than an 8120 or 8150 as many have suggested?

Edit - this is how the typical "spIntel" conversation goes. Someone posts a thread about doing dual Crossfire/SLI on their FX-8120/50 build and literally within hours start getting numerous responses to the effect of "sell your MB and CPU and get a 2500K because it's useless to do Crossfire/SLI on a "faildozer" setup.". And then start posting a link to the same quad sli triple monitor review over and over or better yet like you just did a review pittting the 8150 vs 2600K/3960K clocked at higher speeds and cost significantly more.
Edited by Bubba Hotepp - 6/10/12 at 2:59pm

BF3 is cherry picked

And we provide reviews,and benches but then the amd guys say "omg its a conspiracy all review sites are lying"

Again...how does that show in any way that the 8120/50 is a failure compared to a 2500K. Don't tell someone they should buy one chip over another and then post results comparing it to a different CPU altogether. How about I start posting results of an 8120 vs an i3-2120 to show how "intel CPU's are inferior"?
Edited by Bubba Hotepp - 6/10/12 at 3:04pm

There are loads of reviews posted above me

But they are all wrong aswell right?

There's not a lot wrong with AMD and average frame rates, heck the difference between my 4.1Ghz Phenom 2 x6 and 5Ghz 2500k in Crysis running 5850 crossfire was only 5fps but the minimums showed an improvement of 10fps in favor of the 2500k.

Moving from the Phenom 2 I stopped being CPU limited in most of my games and started being GPU limited under the 2500k.

That's the point that most people don't seem to understand, minimum frame rates are by far the most important factor and Intel provides frame rates that are much higher and much more playable.

Granted there are games that can use 4+ threads ( BF3, Crysis 2... ) and in those games the frame rates are nigh on identical, problem being is that only a handful of games can use 4+ threads and all of the others are limited to 1-2 threads and that's why Intel chips are the only way to go when it comes to gaming.

Personally a high end GPU like the GTX670/680 & HD 7950/7950 will be wasted on Bulldozer and Phenom 2, multi-GPU gaming is simply a stupid thing to run on an AMD platform because they just simply don't have the IPC to drive multiple cards.

If games and drivers were all naturally multi-threaded then Bulldozer would a very good option but in reality we live in a world where true multi-threading support is only just really starting to take off.

Bulldozer should start performing a bit better when the next set of consoles release as you're pretty much guaranteed that all game engines will support 4+ threads.
Edited by Mr Frosty - 6/10/12 at 3:13pm