Microsoft Windows 7 Bulldozer Performance Patch Test

Foreign players alexmaia_br and mikezachlowe2004 evaluated the performance of this patch as soon as Microsoft released the Windows 7 bulldozer performance patch today.

The evaluation uses the AMD bulldozer FX-8150, overclocked to 4.6GHz. Alexmaia_br uses Cinebench, "Batman: Arkham City", "Hero Sam 3", "Black Street Saints 3", "Battlefield 3", "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3".

They found that after patching, in the Cinebench, the 8-core bulldozer was identified as 4C/8T, before the patch was 8C/8T, that is, the patch was recognized by Cinebench as a 4-core processor, but the test score There was a slight increase from 7.52 to 7.57.

"Batman: Arkham City" test shows that the minimum number of frames to enhance the 3fps, the highest average number of frames and frames do not change, but many feel smooth.

"Saints Row 3" performance is relatively large, according to the screenshot alexmaia_br given show that Microsoft's Windows 7 patch to the same location bulldozers performance frames to enhance the rate of nearly 20%.

"Serious Sam 3" slightly improved performance there, the same place 8% performance increase. After Although

mikezachlowe2004 no comparison screenshots and test data are given, but he said, "Battlefield 3" frame change is very obvious, marked with Windows7 bulldozer performance patch, the number of frames have 15-20fps Upgrade, the original three-screen frame in the crossfire at 30-40fps, and now reach 50-60fps. He said that the performance change of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" is also very significant, and the number of frames is increased by 35-45fps. Mikezachlowe2004 said that before the patch, the bulldozer can only use 4 cores in Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Struggle 3. After patching, 8 cores can be fully utilized.