AMD Bulldozer (Zambezi-FX) CPU Performance Exposed, Beats i7 2600K in CineBench Bench

[hsakarp_kahtap]

A recent post from a Chinese Blog site has exposed the performance of AMD's Upcoming Bulldozer Based Zambezi-FX Processors. Although the Blog has been deleted but Zol.com.cn which is another Chinese Forum managed to get the screenshots from the blog post.
The AMD Processors being used is hidden but its confirmed by users that it was a 6/8 Core Zambezi-FX Processor and the benchmarks used for testing included CineBench R11.5 (x64) and R17 (x64). Both benchmarks evaluate the CPU performance capabilities. The AMD CPU scored 7.37 in Multi-Core rendering (CineBench R11.5) against the Intel i7 2600K’s 6.23 and i7 990x's 8.42. A single digit score improvement in this benchmark means that Intel's top line Sandy bridge will finally get some tough competition from the Zambezi-FX CPU's.

CinBench R10 reports a score of 28,074 however no CPU comparisons was mentioned but i can tell you this much that my i7 920 score a max of 19,500 score on stock clocks, Considering this, The bulldozer CPU's hold quite some punch. We also reported some benchmarks of an Engineering Sample of AMD bulldozer CPU but the results were not as satisfying at these, You can check them out here.
A recent pricing chart which got leaked here also shows that Bulldozer's top of the line Zambezi-FX cost around 240-320$ for 6/8 Core models, The price ain't bad at all for the CPU's considering the performance increase they offer.

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[Bearcat]

Although I have had just one PC with an AMD CPU, I wouldn't have any problem with buying another one. Thanks for the info Prakash!

[A Guy]

The compitition is always good for us consumers, because next Intel will leapfrog AMD and on it goes

A Guy

[JayCub]

Thank you for the news Prakash as it's hot off of the press, there are many requests on forums for the AMD Bulldozer review, and as mentioned looks like a really good price, this is something i intend to have a look at and hope it breaks Intels price structure, it's hard to compare the chips side by side as it is not possible, but performance counts as well as price, as A Guy mentions let the competition begin.

[hsakarp_kahtap]

we have to wait for intel ivy bridge but i don't think these are helpful if you are going for a discreet GPU, as we know AMD add 6650/70 to bulldozer Zambezi-FX
CPU's but it will be a great choice for those who wants a low end gaming desktop without a discreet gpu upto 1600*1200 res.