Why is the Intel i7 4770k better than AMD FX8350?

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MrAlaweey98

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I may sound like a noob asking this but why is the Intel i7 4770k better than AMD FX8350. If we compare the two AMD FX8350 has 4 more cores and runs at a higher clock speed. I want to know why people buy the i7 4770k when it has less performance.
 
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mouse24

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Core count isn't everything. The FX8350 uses sudo cores that simply aren't as fully fledged. The i7 has higher performance per core than the FX8350. Though in heavily multithreaded apps the FX8350 can get close to the i7.

Theres a reason its nearly a hundred dollars cheaper.
 
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It's the same type of scenario as the PlayStation 4 vs the PlayStation 3. Nobody questions that the PS4 is way more powerful than the PS3, yet its clock speed is about half that of the PS3. Obviously there is more at stake than Gigahertz. With the 4770k's hyperthreading, it's basically the same as having 8 cores, and it runs much more efficiently than the FX8350. The benchmarks don't lie.
 
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Somewhat true, but hyper threading is nowhere near the same thing as having 8 physical cores


 
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You mean "pseudo"? Or are we talking "sudo" as in Linux or Unix?
 
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It is a true eight core cpu measured by any technical standard. There are eight integer cores that share resources.
 
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In some compute workloads the 8350 will come out on top. Not any compute workloads the average home user will ever encounter but they do exist. In poorly threaded workloads or lightly threaded ones the i7 will beat the 8350 no question.
 
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I meant pseudo. But I would like to say that they are true cores but not in the sense of being completely separated from each other.
 
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Integer cores yes. Floating point Cores no.

Just to be comparative:

An AMD core has one integer unit (not sure what it's meant to be called) and shares a Floating point unit in a module.
An Intel core has one integer unit and one floating point unit.
 
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