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Updated Windows 7 AMD Bulldozer Patch Tested, Still Sucks

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Last updated on 2012-01-13 by Sam in News

So, in case you missed it, Microsoft recently released a new Windows 7 patch to improve AMD Bulldozer performance which AMD claims will give you a 0-2% performance boost. So, what’s it more like? 0% or 2%?

Well, according to TweakPC, it’s more like 0%. TweakPC, recently ran a suite of before and after benchmarks using the AMD FX-8150 and the results weren’t that impressive. Most benchmarks (Cinebench, AIDA64, etc.) yielded no performance gains while some (WinRAR, Resident Evil 5, etc.) yielded very minor performance gains.

That being said, it is still recommended that you apply these patches, but don’t go in expecting too much. While you’re downloading though, be sure to hit the jump and take a peek at the benchmarks below.

Source: TechPowerUp / TweakPC.de

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Wow, really? AMD this is the future of all AMD processors? It wouldn’t be that big of a deal to me but you have already ruined the FX name and reputation along with Athlon and your server cpus Opteron and lately I’ve been hearing you are using same architecture on the new Phenoms, Wow are trying to lose every customer and fanboy you have?Look and this is coming from a FANBOY since 2006 your company has been slowly dying because of your budget and alot of accepted it at first such as claiming 4000HTs on your quad cores and them only having 2000HTs and don’t give us that DDR crap on you HT/s alot of us old school PC builders know your older chips had 1000ht/s and they read 1000ht/s in CPUID and some of your single core Athlon 64 FX cpus had 2000HTs and they read 2000HTs in CPUID,so let me get this straight your AM3 CPUs have half the amount of HT/s per core and have half the amount of bits per core and now your new BD architecture really only has half the amount of cores it claims and instead of one single 32nm die having 4 cores you have 2 32nm dual core dies on one chip with them both added you are up to 64 nm that 19nm larger than your older single 45 nm die,where did you improve anything?Your processor benchmarks are worse your memory controller latency is worse and your cpus run even hotter than before so why continue with this chip? Here is a little advice get a top notch fire insurance plan and burn your factory to the ground and use the money and start new!!!!