AMD Vishera vs Intel Haswell

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What are the major differences between the AMD Vishera and Intel Haswell CPUs? Is it worth to buy the Vishera FX-8350 CPU over the Haswell i7-4770? Some people say that it was OK to buy a FX-8350 and some people say AMD CPUs are lack reliability and poor performance compared to Intel CPUs. Therefore, buy the Intel i7-4770K. As far as I know AMD Vishera CPUs don't have the Hyper Treading feature. How does it affect the overall performance? Similarly, can someone explain me what are the AMD APUs like A10-6800K. Are they better than the Vishera CPUs?

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AMD CPUs from the Vishera architecture have modules - and each module has two "cores". The cores inside a module are dedicated to integer calculations and share a floating point unit. This gives VIshera quite high integer performance overall, but a lot weaker floating point performance compared to Intel.

Haswell (or Intel in general) concentrate on less, but stronger, cores. Haswell also comes with lower power consumption and lower heat production. Also, Intel's platform has better architecture when comes to RAM performance compared to AMD (not noticeable in normal usage).

So, if you do some video rendering in Premier Pro for example - a 8350 falls close to 4770, but costs significantly less. For 3D, Compositing and CAD where...
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AMD tends to overheat a lot more than Intel. AMD has more cores and much suitable for multitasking.

An Intel CPU (mainly referring to i5 and i7) will generally have better frames than AMD. But don't forget it also depends on the GPU.

But if you are in a budget, the FX-8350 is a good choice. A bit more, is the i5-4690 or i5-4690K. If you can afford, the i7-4790 or i7-4790K.
 
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AMD CPUs from the Vishera architecture have modules - and each module has two "cores". The cores inside a module are dedicated to integer calculations and share a floating point unit. This gives VIshera quite high integer performance overall, but a lot weaker floating point performance compared to Intel.

Haswell (or Intel in general) concentrate on less, but stronger, cores. Haswell also comes with lower power consumption and lower heat production. Also, Intel's platform has better architecture when comes to RAM performance compared to AMD (not noticeable in normal usage).

So, if you do some video rendering in Premier Pro for example - a 8350 falls close to 4770, but costs significantly less. For 3D, Compositing and CAD where floating point in concerned - Intel has a strong lead.

In games - which currently do not use many threads - Intel wins due it its stronger cores, because games can not fully use all the resources of an 8350.

All in all - 8350 and its AM3+ platform is outdated. It gives relatively ok performance for cheap, which comes at the expense of power consumption and heat. A 8350 is 170 EUR here, while a 4790k is 330. In recent years, Intel has a significant lead over AMD even with the price considered.
 
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AMD chips get hotter, faster than Intel chips, and the socket they run on (AM3+) will probably die out sooner rather than later - LGA 2011/1150 however will be relevant for at least another 3 years.
Intel chips also have stronger cores, but AMD chips have more cores.
Generally, Intel chips perform better, run cooler and have larger future expansion, but this comes at a price. Intel chips are much more expensive than AMD, making AMD a good choice for budget systems (except the Pentium G3258).

Hope this helps :)
 
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Thanks. Do you know about AMD APUs and what is the floating point unit?
 
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So PS4 and Xbox One also have an AMD Jaguar APU. May be that's the reason why some games don't run at 1080p resolution on the PS4 and Xbox One. I think they should upgrade the Jaguar APU to Vishera CPU or 6800K.
 
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