"AMD vs. Intel" I've had enough of it...

Lumani · Jun 14, 2013

For about 5 months now, I've been reading about hardware daily. I'm going to be running into some money soon, and I wanted to use it to build a new computer. I have everything pretty well set in stone, except the CPU.

A good 3 of the last 5 months have been nothing but specs, benchmarks, forums, inconsistencies, and fan boys. I am horribly neutral in this on going "war", and I am simply looking for real-world facts about each CPU brand.

I'm looking for a CPU for about $350 USD at most, and I will be mostly doing 3D modeling (low to medium poly meshes), Photoshop, audio production, programming and some file compression. I hope to cut out any discussion on gaming, because the difference between the CPUs (from what I can tell anyway) is minimal most of time and I'm not one to nit-pick at small frame rates changes.

Audio production is my biggest concern, since I consistently see high-end gaming GPUs (which I plan on purchasing) out preforming CPUs in 3D/Multimedia work. However I do feel that investing in a sound card will have a similar result in out preforming the CPU; I can't remember reading any solid proof on that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were true.

Re-cap: ~$350 CPU for the work listed in the third paragraph, and please bring "real-world" proof with your suggestion on what I should look for.

Thanks for helping and checking out my first forum post EVER on any site EVER.
(I tend to lurk, not post xD)

THANKS!

DarkSable · Jun 14, 2013

For what you're doing, the 8350 is the best bet - the i7 would beat it, but not by enough to make the price difference insignificant.

In terms of the sound card, you're correct that you want one, but you can't use just any old sound card - you need a 'pro' sound card which has the processing power to do what you want.

L Helps · Jun 14, 2013

DarkSable :

+1

Lumani · Jun 14, 2013

DarkSable :

FX-8350 is what I was leaning towards, but it doesn't hurt to double check. xD

I'm excited to see what others have to say.

Someone Somewhere · Jun 14, 2013

I thought most sound cards can't return any data - it's just what you hear, it can't return the results of it's DSP.

Agree with the CPU part of DarkSable's post - go look at the 4770K launch coverage.

Pinhedd · Jun 14, 2013

Lumani :

There are tons of benchmarks showing how the latest Intel and AMD microprocessors stack up against eachother.

The simple reality is that Intel has a heavy lead in the following:

Single threaded performance

Power efficiency

Cache and memory architecture

They are on par in the following:

Highly multi-threaded performance

AMD has an advantage in the following:

Hashing

Integrated Graphics

While an AMD FX-8350 can trade blows with Intel's IvyBridge and Haswell processors in some applications, it draws half again as much power while doing so.

If you're willing to spend $350 on a CPU alone and aren't particularly trying to save money, a top end quad core Intel i7 processor is the way to go.

Lumani · Jun 14, 2013

Someone Somewhere :

I have, I wasn't really impressed with it when compared to the 3770K, but it made sense at the same time. I don't know why some people were expecting something ridiculous like a 100% performance increase from Ivy-Bridge.

Someone Somewhere · Jun 14, 2013

It's quite difficult to go through a GB a second of hashing though...

I'd probably go for the 8350, though it's a tough call. I'd like to throw money at AMD's CPU division, in the hope that they can actually make their new architectures competitive.

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