Recently AMD unveiled its new line of AMD FX Processors which go by the name of Bulldozer. The chip is first of its kind made for desktop processor for consumer PCs with an eight core set-up. However, the early reviews for the new Bulldozer processors tell a different tale.
Reviews from web sites such as TechSpot confirm that the new chips don’t even match up to the performance given by an older Sandy Bridge-based chips from AMD’s main rival Intel.
In light of such comments,AMD has come ahead and notified everyone that these processors do give increased performance on Windows 8 in a new slide promoting the AMD FX processor.According to Xbitlabs , the slide shows that the chip, running on the developer’s preview version of Windows 8, shows better performance running games when compared to Windows 7. The slide shows a two percent increase in Windows 8 when playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a four percent increase while playing Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty Black Ops, and a significant 10 percent increase while playing Left 4 Dead 2.
Although,there’s no info on what kind of PC setup was used to run these gaming benchmarks. According to AMD, the performance boost while running games in Windows 8 is due to the OS’s new scheduler which handles processors with multiple cores more efficiently.
In the end, there are no PC games that can currently access the full eight processors that the new Bulldozer chips have. As of now, it seems that the new AMD FX chips are still not able to match up with Intel’s current line of processors.
