The CPU That Almost Killed AMD: Bulldozer FX-8150 Benchmarks in 2020

One of AMD's worst architectures was Bulldozer, which was not only behind in performance and efficiency, but also got the company to settle a class action over its advertising. Time to revisit.
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AMD's FX-8150 CPU was marketed as an 8-core CPU, following-up a completely different architecture from the Phenom II series from one year prior. The Phenom II 1090T and 1100T were woefully flanked by Nehalem and Sandy Bridge, and they were also followed-up with Bulldozer, which wasn't the one-two punch AMD needed. The company sort of collapsed on itself as it offered one refresh of Bulldozer after another for the next 3 years (!), before going silent leading into the Ryzen launch. If Ryzen didn't go over well, AMD was in serious financial trouble as it had a limited product portfolio and few industry-leading offerings in any one segment. Bulldozer set the undertone that would highlight AMD's comeback story later in the decade, and likewise set Intel up for years of largely uncontested dominance in the CPU market.

Watch our AMD Phenom II 1090T revisit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igjrJ7qH3_8
And our FX-8370 revisit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Gcg-tFfu0

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - AMD's Future Lawsuit: Bulldozer Recap
04:51 - FX-8150 Benchmarks in 2020 (GTA V)
06:02 - Three Kingdoms FX-8150 vs. Phenom 1090T, Ryzen, Intel
07:04 - F1 2019 CPU Benchmarks: FX-8150 vs. 10600K, 1700, 3600
08:41 - Tomb Raider CPU Benchmarks
09:54 - Division 2 CPU Benchmarks with Bulldozer
10:16 - Frametime Plot of 8150 vs. R3 1200
12:27 - Hitman 2 CPU Benchmarks
13:24 - Red Dead Redemption 2 CPU Benchmarks in 2020
14:41 - Blender Cycles CPU Rendering
16:02 - Adobe Premiere CPU Rendering Benchmark
17:11 - Chromium Code Compile CPU Benchmarks
17:43 - AMD FX-8150 Power Consumption
18:04 - Conclusion

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