AMD FX 8150 Black Edition 8-Core Review (with Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7)

Cinebench R11.5 is the newest revision of the popular benchmark from Maxon. The test scenario uses all of your system’s processing power to render a photorealistic 3D scene (from the viral “No Keyframes” animation by AixSponza). This scene makes use of various different algorithms to stress all available processor cores.

In fact, CINEBENCH can measure systems with up to 64 processor threads. The test scene contains approximately 2,000 objects containing more than 300,000 total polygons and uses sharp and blurred reflections, area lights and shadows, procedural shaders, antialiasing, and much more. The result is given in points (pts). The higher the number, the faster your processor.

We have to admit to feeling slightly disappointed with Cinebench R11.5 performance, especially as the new FX 8150 has two extra cores and is clocked 300mhz higher than the last generation Phenom II X6 1100T processor. The performance variable is minimal.

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