8 Core steamroller vs i5-4670k

With all of the information that exists regarding Steamroller, one can speculate that an 8-core Steamroller CPU would definitely outperform an i5-4670K in terms of video editing. It has double the cores, with each core having IPC improvements of 20-30% from the previous version. Most video editing software utilizes multi-core, thus the Steamroller advantage there.

With regard to gaming, it would really depend on the game. If the game supports more than 4 cores, yes, the Steamroller chip would outperform the Intel, however, if the game is limited to just 4 cores, then the Intel chip would outperform the Steamroller.

Although Steamroller cores will have improved IPC over the previous generation (again, 20-30%), it will still be under Haswell IPC at the same clock, however, as we have seen with the FX9590, AMD is pushing clocks as high as they can, and with the higher clocks, the IPC is catching up to Intel. Even with the older Piledriver architecture behind the FX9590, it's single core IPC has risen with the higher clock rates and almost catches it up with Sandy Bridge performance and again, that is with their older architecture. Given up to 20-30% improvement with Steamroller, we can expect performance to surpass Sandy Bridge and possibly even Ivy Bridge, giving performance somewhere between Ivy and Haswell.

With the given numbers we have from existing parts, we can calculate a speculative outcome. For example, with the FX9590 scoring 1.34 in Cinebench 11.5 Single Thread we can add 20-30% performance to that which would give 1.61-1.74. This would theoretically put Steamroller anywhere from just under Ivy Bridge, to outperforming Haswell (stock clocks).

So, if and that's a big "if", AMD holds true to their 30% performance increase over Piledriver, then yes, Steamroller would be competitive with Intel even at a single core level and considering that video editing uses multi-cores and that the future of video games will be based around 8-core AMD parts, I would actually say that an 8-core steamroller would be the best choice.

Here is an article backing up the idea that AMD 8-core parts are better for futureproofing a PC over a 4 core Intel part.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-future-proofing-your-pc-for-next-gen

However, if AMD does not release news of an 8-core Steamroller CPU for the future, even I, myself, will be picking up a 4770K. It all depends on what AMD will be doing in the future and hopefully they reveal this information soon.

miscrow amd piledriver fx series are one of the worst cpus for gaming as games require good single thread performance to calculate things quickly.

Look here similar clock speed intel half the cores due to like 2.1x better ipc can be seen on superpi and on those benchmarks the i5 4670k beats the fx8320 or matches it with half the cores. So games won't magically become better. If steamroller improves 10-15% better ipc it will still be about 85-90% lower ipc to intel cpus.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/837?vs=698

The 4670k with half the cores beats an fx8320 at a lot of multithreaded tasks at similar clock speed. Reason is performance per core intel are just over 2x better. This shows up in super pi and translates in to what we see in the below link. Intels haswell cpus do just over 2x the workload of these piledriver cpus with half the cores at same clock speed hence why the below benchmarks show this on multithreaded 4 cores vs 8 the 4670k holds it own.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/837?vs=698

Perfomance per watt the i5 4670k is around 2.1x better and has its own igpu to. So the fx9590 what a 20% performance gain over an fx8350 with same technology is worth you guessed it 5x the price or 500% to emphasize it.

Imagine intel selling a haswell i7 4770k and putting the clock speed to turbo to 5ghz and base clock 4.7ghz and charging £600 lol. They used to do that with the p4 or HT dual core Pentium extreme editions but this amd is a new level of taking the mick. They are selling the same product for basically a rip off with memory card type packaging to add insult. Imagine if intel did this you will be trolling how greedy intel are and how unethical it is to do this. This is when you know amd are desperate and don't care about consumers. Some people will actually buy it seeing 5ghz but its slower then a stock i7 4770k.

I hope steamroller amd have a suprise in terms of actual cpu performance but amd have seemed to hit a wall last 4 years with little innovation and hsa is all they have to save them and apus and console market.

About that benchmark...

Read this.

Hafijur is a renowned troll. You need only look at his post history to realize that. Check out that 3930K VS 9350 thread for prime examples.

Hajifur, you've lost almost all credibility with your ridiculous posts. All you've managed to do is show the entire Tom's community that what you have to say is completely worthless. If your goal was to promote Intel, I can almost guarantee that you've managed to do just the opposite as now your words fall on purposely deaf ears. GRATS!!!

I'm still laughing on that "Revolutionary Power Consumption" :lol:

for Laptops its great. but for Desktops. NO! :lol:

Yeah he's a clown. Every time there is any kind of discussion about Intel vs AMD he jumps in out of nowhere and starts speaking nonsense about power consumption, Comparing 22nm with less cores to 32nm with more cores, obviously the smaller lithography less cores will win.