AMD FX-Series FX-8150 - FD8150FRW8KGU / FD8150FRGUBOX / FD8150FRGUWOX
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AMD FX-8150 specifications
| General information | |
| Type | CPU / Microprocessor |
| Market segment | Desktop |
| Family | AMD FX-Series |
| Model number ? | FX-8150 |
| CPU part numbers | FD8150FRW8KGU is an OEM/tray microprocessor FD8150FRGUBOX is a boxed processor with air-cooled heatsink and fan FD8150FRGUWOX is a boxed processor with liquid cooling |
| Frequency ? | 3600 MHz |
| Turbo frequency | 3900 MHz (more than 4 cores) 4200 MHz (4 cores or less) |
| Bus speed ? | One 2600 MHz 16-bit HyperTransport link |
| Package | 938-pin micro-PGA package |
| Socket | Socket AM3+ |
| Weight | 1.4oz / 38.6g (CPU) 1lb 6.9oz / 647.8g (box) |
| Introduction date | October 12, 2011 |
| Price at introduction | $245 |
| Architecture / Microarchitecture | |
| Microarchitecture | Bulldozer |
| Platform | Scorpius |
| Processor core ? | Zambezi |
| Core stepping ? | B2 |
| CPUID | 600F12 |
| Manufacturing process | 0.032 micron |
| Data width | 64 bit |
| The number of cores | 8 |
| The number of threads | 8 |
| Floating Point Unit | Integrated |
| Level 1 cache size ? | 4 x 64 KB two-way associative shared instruction caches 8 x 16 KB 4-way associative data caches |
| Level 2 cache size ? | 4 x 2 MB 16-way associative shared exclusive caches |
| Level 3 cache size | 8 MB up to 64-way associative shared cache |
| Multiprocessing | Uniprocessor |
| Features |
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| Low power features |
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| Integrated peripherals / components | |
| Memory controller |
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| Other peripherals | HyperTransport 3.1 technology |
| Electrical / Thermal parameters | |
| Maximum operating temperature ? | 61°C |
| Thermal Design Power ? | 125 Watt |
| Notes on AMD FD8150FRW8KGU | |
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CPUs, related to AMD FX-8150
| Model | Cores / Threads |
Freq. | Turbo freq. |
L3 cache |
TDP | Features | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD FX-Series family, Socket AM3+ | |||||||
| FX-4170 | 4 / 4 | 4.2 GHz | 4.3 GHz | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $122 | |
| FX-4350 | 4 / 4 | 4.2 GHz | 4.3 GHz | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $122 | |
| FX-6100 | 6 / 6 | 3.3 GHz | 3.9 GHz | 8 MB | 95 Watt | $112 | |
| FX-6120 | 6 / 6 | 3.5 GHz | 4.1 GHz | 8 MB | 95 Watt | ||
| FX-6300 | 6 / 6 | 3.5 GHz | 4.1 GHz | 8 MB | 95 Watt | $112 | |
| FX-6200 | 6 / 6 | 3.8 GHz | 4.1 GHz | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $132 | |
| FX-6350 | 6 / 6 | 3.9 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $132 | |
| FX-8100 | 8 / 8 | 2.8 GHz | 3.7 GHz | 8 MB | 95 Watt | ||
| FX-8120 | 8 / 8 | 3.1 GHz | 4 GHz | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $153 | |
| FX-8120 (95W) | 8 / 8 | 3.1 GHz | 4 GHz | 8 MB | 95 Watt | ||
| FX-8140 | 8 / 8 | 3.2 GHz | 4.1 GHz | 8 MB | 95 Watt | ||
| FX-8300 | 8 / 8 | 3.3 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 8 MB | 95 Watt | ||
| FX-8320 | 8 / 8 | 3.5 GHz | 4 GHz | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $153 | |
| FX-8150 | 8 / 8 | 3.6 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $183 | |
| FX-8350 | 8 / 8 | 4 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $195 | |
• Within each category, the CPUs are sorted from slower (at the top) to faster (at the bottom)
• The 'Price' column shows official AMD prices as of Apr 29, 2013. Prices for obsolete and tray-only processors are not provided.
• List of related CPUs is not complete.
FAQ
Q: My processor is running 55C under load. Is this normal?
A: Safe CPU temperatures are 60 degrees Celsius and below. It may
still run fine with CPU temperatures, exceeding 60C threshold by a
few degrees. Running the FX-8150 close to 70 degrees and higher is not
recommended.
Q: I have an AMD FX-8150 CPU. Is it possible to upgrade it?
A: Probably yes. CPU compatibility is determined by your motherboard. Please check CPU-Upgrade.com website for CPU support list for your board.
AMD FX-8150 Overclocking
Sorry, overclocking information is not available at this time.
Pictures (5)
CPU-Z screenshot. The processor is identified by CPU-Z as FX-8130P, which is incorrect. Tested FX-8150 was a production part, but the CPU-Z states that it's an ES. |
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| AMD FX-8150 box pictures | |
Top of the line FX 8120 and 8150 processors were released in black-and-red cool looking metal tin boxes with rounded corners. The contents of the box is the same as for cartoon boxes: the CPU in a plastic container, installation instructions, and the fan/heatsink with copper base and heat pipes. |
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Side view. |
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Back view. |
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Front view. |
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News
AMD to drop prices, launch FX-4130 CPU on August 27
Aug 24, 2012: AMD today updated A-Series, FX-Series and Phenom II pricing pages,
lowering prices on full range of "Llano" APUs, and high performance
K10 and "Bulldozer" CPUs. The pages shows effective date August
27, which suggests that the price drops will happen next Monday.
Overall, the prices were cut by 1% - 23%.
AMD FX-4200 is available for pre-order
May 12, 2012: AMD FX-400 quad-core series currently includes two CPUs: FX-4100
and FX-4170. At least two other models from the same series, FX-4130 and
FX-4150, were discovered in leaked AMD roadmaps, although they are not
launched yet. It is possible that another quad-core FX processor may be
released before the 4130 and 4150. AMD FX-4200 was spotted in Gigabyte
and MSI CPU support lists in March and April, and recently appeared
in Bottom Line Telecommunications online store.
AMD cuts prices on A-Series APUs and FX CPUs
Apr 27, 2012: A few days after announcement of Intel's Ivy Bridge
micro-architecture, many news sites reported
that some
European
retailers slashed prices of FX-8150 processors by 15% - 20%, and
suggested that AMD may have dropped the prices of other processors as
well. Today AMD published new pricelist, confirming price drop for the
FX-8150 model. The company also cut prices of six- and quad-core
FX-Series chips, and for all microprocessors from A-Series.
AMD releases details of FX-8150 liquid cooler
Mar 26, 2012: Two AMD FX unlocked microprocessors with unusual "WOF" prefix are now
available for pre-order in US online stores. Boxed FX-8120 and FX-8150
SKUs with part numbers FD8120FRGUWOX and FD8150FRGUWOX have a unique
feature for production processors: they come with liquid cooling,
which allows CPUs to reach higher overclock frequencies and/or achieve
better system stability when overclocked. The liquid cooling is
not cheap though, and pre-order prices for two FX models are $100 -
$150 more expensive than air-cooled versions of the same chips. We
don't know release dates of WOF models, although there is one fact
that tells us that the release is not too far off. In the last two
days AMD published
AMD
Liquid Cooling document with details on liquid cooler
for FX-Series processors.
Pre-order prices for upcoming AMD FX CPUs
Feb 01, 2012: Last Sunday Intel listed three new Core i5 desktop microprocessors
in company's official pricelist. Another desktop Core i7 model will be
launched in two weeks. It seems that AMD also prepares to refresh
their FX line of desktop processors, targeted at computer enthusiasts.
We recently spotted available for pre-order unreleased FX-4170 and FX-6200 CPUs. Also, AMD is going to offer in US a variation of FX-8150
model with liquid cooling.
AMD introduces first "Bulldozer" FX processors
Oct 12, 2011: Today AMD launched Bulldozer micro-architecture, and first four FX
desktop microprocessors. Bulldozer microarchitecture takes radically
different approach than previous generation of K10 chips, and, instead
of separate cores, integrates from 2 to 4 modules. Each module
contains two CPU cores, that share some circuitry, such as instruction
level 1 cache, Floating-Point Unit and level 2 cache.
First AMD FX-8150 preview emerges on the net
Oct 11, 2011: Less than two days left before the official launch of AMD FX-Series
CPUs. While specifications and prices of new processors are well
known, the same cannot be said about its performance. The FX-Series is
based on Bulldozer micro-architecture, which packs from 2 to 4 modules
on a single die. Each module incorporates two cores, that share certain
resources, such as fetch and decode circuits, floating-point unit and
L2 cache. Resource sharing allows Bulldozer chips to lower power
consumption and reduce die size, but it also reduces core performance.
AMD FX processors to launch on October 12
Sep 22, 2011: This quarter AMD is going to launch server-class "Interlagos" and
consumer-class "Zambezi" processors, based on new Bulldozer
micro-architecture. In the past two weeks three "Zambezi" FX-Series
CPUs surfaced for pre-order at a few online US stores, suggesting
imminent release of these models. Yesterday Donanimhaber reported that
AMD FX-Series family will launch on October 12.
Bits and pieces: AMD FX-8150 at 8.43GHz, Core i7-2700K frequency confirmed
Sep 15, 2011: Earlier this week, in a press release, titled "AMD Showcases
World’s Fastest CPU", AMD announced
new overclocking world record. Not yet released FX-8150 processor
with 6 disabled cores was overclocked to staggering 8.429 GHz by a
team of overclocking specialists working together with AMD engineers.
It's definitely an impressive result, and a great marketing stunt.
Pre-order prices of AMD FX-Series CPUs
Sep 11, 2011: Earlier this week AMD announced shipping of server class
microprocessors, based on upcoming "Bulldozer" core. The
announcement indicated that the processors will be available next
quarter. The server chips were, apparently, delayed as they were
expected to launch a quarter earlier. According
to Xbit laboratories, high-performance FX-Series chips
for consumer market were also delayed, and they will be shipped
in the fourth quarter.
Gigabyte reveals AMD FX-Series specifications
Sep 02, 2011: As you may already know, later this quarter AMD is going to
launch Bulldozer micro-architecture, that at first will be
used in server Opteron 6200 CPUs, and desktop FX-Series
microprocessors. Specifications of desktop FX-Series were known for
more than a month, and they recently were confirmed by Gigabyte. As was
discovered by VR-Zone, the latest CPU support
list update for several Gigabyte socket AM3+ motherboards includes the
details on all AMD FX-Series SKUs.
Benchmarks
Benchmark tools
- For additional benchmarks, comparing multi-threaded performance of this microprocessor with other FX-Series CPUs and the fastest AMD and Intel x86 chips, please visit AMD FX-8150 benchmarks page.
AMD FX-8150 benchmarks
The graphs below show up to 10 processors with aproximately the same level of performance in different types of applications. All processors were tested at nominal frequency (not overclocked), with stock heatsink and default BIOS settings. To see how the FX-8150 compares to other CPUs please see benchmark tools section above.
Benchmarked processor
| CPU ID: | 600F12 |
| CPU vendor string: | AuthenticAMD |
| CPU name string: | AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor |
Integer performance
| Part number | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 112.3% | ||
| 110.8% | ||
| 107.8% | ||
| 107% | ||
| 104.4% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 98% | ||
| 94.8% | ||
| 94.3% | ||
| 93.5% | ||
| 93.4% |
Floating Point performance
| Part number | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 111% | ||
| 108.4% | ||
| 105.4% | ||
| 102.7% | ||
| 100.1% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.1% | ||
| 97% | ||
| 96.7% | ||
| 91.5% |
MMX / SSE / SSE2 performance
| Part number | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 109.8% | ||
| 108% | ||
| 105.8% | ||
| 103.8% | ||
| 100.5% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.9% | ||
| 97.5% | ||
| 97% | ||
| 95.4% | ||
| 92.4% |
Memory-intensive program performance
| Part number | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| 104.1% | ||
| 103.7% | ||
| 102.3% | ||
| 101.1% | ||
| 101% | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.9% | ||
| 97.7% | ||
| 97% | ||
| 96.6% | ||
| 95.2% |
CPU ID (5)
CPUID Tools
- Our CPUID database contains 5 records for this microprocessor. See all submitted records.
- Use our CPU identification tool to check features of your CPU.
CPUID features of AMD FX-8150
NOTE: The CPU ID information below was taken from one CPU and may include features that are not present in all different steppings of the AMD FX-Series FX-8150 CPU.
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| General information | |
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| Vendor: | AuthenticAMD |
| Processor name (BIOS): | AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor |
| Cores: | 8 |
| Compute units: | 4 |
| Logical processors: | 8 |
| Processor type: | Original OEM Processor |
| Core stepping: | OR-B2 |
| CPUID signature: | 600F12 |
| Family: | 21 (015h) |
| Model: | 1 (01h) |
| Stepping: | 2 (02h) |
| Socket: | AM3+ |
| Cache: | L1 data | L1 instruction | L2 | L3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size: | 8 x 16 KB | 4 x 64 KB | 4 x 2 MB | 8 MB |
| Associativity: | 4-way set associative |
2-way set associative |
16-way set associative |
64-way set associative |
| Line size: | 64 bytes | 64 bytes | 64 bytes | 64 bytes |
| Comments: | Direct-mapped | Direct-mapped 1 cache per 2 cores |
Non-inclusive Direct-mapped 1 cache per 2 cores |
Non-inclusive Direct-mapped Shared between all cores |
| Instruction set extensions | Additional instructions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| MMX | Advanced Bit manipulation | ||
| AMD extensions to MMX | CLFLUSH | ||
| SSE | CMOV | ||
| SSE2 | CMPXCHG16B | ||
| SSE3 | CMPXCHG8B | ||
| SSSE3 | FXSAVE/FXRSTORE | ||
| SSE4A | MONITOR/MWAIT | ||
| SSE4.1 | PCLMULDQ | ||
| SSE4.2 | POPCNT | ||
| AES | PREFETCH/PREFETCHW | ||
| AVX | RDTSCP | ||
| FMA4 | SKINIT / STGI support | ||
| XOP | SYSCALL/SYSRET | ||
| SYSENTER/SYSEXIT | |||
| XSAVE / XRESTORE states | |||
| XSETBV / XGETBV are enabled | |||
| Major features | Other features | ||
| On-chip Floating Point Unit | 1 GB large page support | ||
| 64-bit / Intel 64 | 100MHz multiplier control | ||
| NX bit/XD-bit | 128-bit SSE instructions | ||
| Secure Virtual Machine (Virtualization) | 36-bit page-size extensions | ||
| Turbo Core | Advanced programmable interrupt controller | ||
| PowerNow! / Cool'n'Quiet | Core multi-processing legacy mode | ||
| Debugging extensions | |||
| Extended APIC space | |||
| Hardware P-state control | |||
| Hardware thermal control | |||
| Instruction based sampling | |||
| LAHF / SAHF support in 64-bit mode | |||
| LBR virtualization | |||
| LOCK MOV CR0 means MOV CR8 | |||
| Lightweight profiling support | |||
| Machine check architecture | |||
| Machine check exception | |||
| Memory-type range registers | |||
| Misaligned SSE mode | |||
| Model-specific registers | |||
| Nested page tables | |||
| OS visible workaround | |||
| Page attribute table | |||
| Page global extension | |||
| Page-size extensions (4MB pages) | |||
| Physical address extensions | |||
| SVM lock | |||
| Support for NRIP save | |||
| THERMTRIP | |||
| TSC rate is ensured to be invariant across all states | |||
| Temperature sensor | |||
| Time stamp counter | |||
| Virtual 8086-mode enhancements | |||
| Watchdog timer support | |||
Comments (9)
You're welcome to post suggestions, corrections, your own personal AMD FX-8150 review, or your experience with the microprocessor. Please do not ask upgrade and troubleshooting questions, and do not start discussions.
2012-01-19 02:25:59
Posted by: Flint
Bus speed (MHz) 2200 MHz - this CPU-NB
HyperTransport 3.0 "16-bits in each direction, supporting up to 5200 MT/s (10.4 GB/s) in each direction in HyperTransport Generation 3.0 mode" - 2600MHz HT
support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/49686.pdf
a note to the world
2012-01-31 22:27:47
Posted by: Some Mad Kid
freakin' had a system-build delayed so long beause of the crappy release dates of these chips.. ffs now im stuck with an am3+ mobo... hurry up and give us the (just as crappy?) AMD FX8170 so I can close my computer case! Honestly, what junk, just release it now a steping issue will not solve its failzorness. On anouther thought, maybe I should just keep the 1100T because core-for-core its better... lol u noob cakes make me mad..
I cannot see myself buying anouther AMD anywhere in the foreseeable future, so back to over-priced Intel.. *SIGH...!*
Without AMD, Intel prices would be double.
2012-02-05 08:04:15
Posted by: notnonoob
Bdozer is on the right trck, they just need to tighten a few loose screws.
I HAVE THE FX-8150
2012-04-13 00:20:08
Posted by: CONAN OF ROTTINGHAM
I UPGRADED FROM A 960T Quad Core...I see the difference and love this CPU... Some say its only 4 core with Advanced Hyperthreading. Whatever it is I love it. Just think the price is high from what I paid. They should match the i5 2500K price... because that CPU beats it in most games and is cheaper. I still like AMD and they are where the FUTURE of CPU's are.
BUY THIS CPU... DON'T BUY INTEL... THEY ARE CHUMPS!
lol @ intel fan
2012-07-31 08:23:10
Posted by: Ben
I own both I5-3570k and the FX-8150. And seriously on practical I5 after 3 months of use gives me half the performance of a FX-8150 and cost so much more. As long people will buy Intell craps they will make cheap cpus with high peak to amaze the gallery. Still anyone that is stupid enough to buy that crap deserve to be stolen.
haters gonna hate
2012-09-28 04:22:47
Posted by: JuCeDogi
When I was researching CPU's for my rig I saw every possible Intel fan boy comment and well... simply no real thought put into those.
This CPU does everything perfectly. Never had any issues with AMD; seen Intel vs AMD real life running the same processes and AMD has always beaten the crap of Intel.
Real life processing tasks will always beat those benchmarks that are oriented to how Intel processors do their work.
As stated above... want to spend more cash, go Intel; want a rig that does what you want for a fair price? Go AMD PERIOD!
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