AMD Bulldozer - Is it worth it? [I very much guess so..]

[[TC]»Elmo«]

My Phenom II X4 955 (3.2GHz) has no trouble with BF3 and Crysis. Bulldozer is certainly an improvement over the Phenom II, but I haven't properly compared the two. Specifically, the FX-8150 has roughly twice the performance of my 955.

The i5 wins for a lot of games, but it does very much depend on the game.
As rttn's link shows, the Bulldozer wins hands down for most of the multithreaded multimedia stuff and a few of the gaming type benchmarks.

Based on current UK prices and overall performance, the FX-8150 is roughly 25% better bang/buck over the i5-2500K and is a bit cheaper overall as well.

If you do a lot of the multimedia stuff, I would recommend the FX-8150 as it is generally better at it.