«CE»Fuyuri wrote:Yes, the Xbox one and the PS4 will be using an AMD processor, but you also have to consider the entire machine and OS is designed from the bottom up to be a gaming system.
I don't see how that at all changes real world benchmarks and what tech professionals say. Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3, both having newer engines, probably going to be used on the new consoles, have better benchmarks on the FX than the i5-3570k.
«CE»Fuyuri wrote:I'm not dodging it, but you are comparing 8 cores to 4. 8 very bottlenecked cores, at that. Per core performance in the lower end i5s is better than the high end AMD CPUs, go figure.
That last part is what I admitted to. I'm not going to deny what's obviously there, but multithreaded benchmarks always favor the FX-8350. It turns out those
extremely bottlenecked cores bring some significant power to a relatively cheap processor. Almost on par with an i7-2600k in fact, which is still significantly more expensive.
http://www.cpu-world.com/benchmarks/Int ... -4430.html
I just noticed that the FX-8350 still outperforms the i5-4670k in multithreading, and the i5 is $60 more expensive xD
Single core thread, which is the second time I've mentioned, is in favor of the i5s. I'm not denying that, nor have I ever done so. I'm only saying the FX has better mutlithreading performance which will show in the new gen of games.
«CE»Fuyuri wrote:Combined, the fx 8350 barely does better than the 4430, at a huge power draw.
20% isn't barely when both processors are the same price, and Haswell is only 5-15% better on average. The FX's TDP is only 125w, the i5-4430's is 84 (only 4 watts less than Ivy Bridge mind you). As I said, you would have to game (run the CPU under load) for a thousand hours a year for three years for the power draw to cost $30 more than what the i5 series would offer. I don't even game for one hour a day, and Spec is looking into light gaming.
If power consumption is truly an issue, then why the hell are you using dedicated graphics instead of the integrated one? I have an FX-8350 and HD 7870, and I'm told the FX is bad for the high TDP. The same people saying it's bad for the TDP are using SLI'd 680s. Ridiculous. Just a little.
«CE»Fuyuri wrote:PCs have a lot more going on than that, and a lot more variables.
The Xbox One is said to have something like three individual operating systems on an 8 core @1.6GHz CPU. I'm pretty sure the FX can handle just one and game.
