AMD's upcoming Bulldozer FX-8120 Processor based on the Zambezi Architecture has been unveiled by a guy from Ukraine. The Chip wasdemonstratedon the ASUSM5A99X EVO AM3+ featuring the AMD 990FX Chipset and a few gaming and CPU intensive benchmarks were also ran to test the performance of the new bulldozer based CPU.
The test setup included the FX-8120 Processor which features 8 Cores and a stock frequency of 3.1Ghz which can Turbo upto 4Ghz, 8Mb L3 Cache and 125W TDP (Details here). Like the other 8 Core Processors, The FX-8120 also comes within the Tin Packaging as shown herealong with AMD's stock Aluminum Block cooler. Other gear includes:
ASUS M5A99X EVO AM3+ AMD 990XGlacialTech Igloo Alaska CoolerCorsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 KitHIS HD6790 ICEQ X GPU
The CPUacquiredwas the retail chip so the results would improve as shown in the previous benchmarks which includedEngineeringSamples and B1 Stepping chips. Following are the results from Various benchmarks:
(All Benchmarks were performed on Stock Frequency)
Cinebench R11.5 (Multithread): 4.89 PointsFritz Chess Benchmark: 9417 Kilonodes/sWPrime (32M): 12.542 secWPrime (1024M): 375.121 secSuperPI (1M): 25.836 secAID64: 10682 Read/ 9705 Write/ 9945 Copy/ 53.8ns
More Results here.