AMD or intel for future games?

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happynarwhalls

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Im deciding on a intel or amd build, right now I have a amd but intel is stronger cores but 4 and amd has weak 8 cores. I don't know which I should get?? is amd good for multi threads and Intel for single thread games? (no intel or amd fanboys please. I just want facts)
 
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Benchmarks for various tasks will vary. Intel soundly beats AMD on performance/watt. Both AMD and Intel have similar performance/dollar. I can't predict the future, but I can say that in the recent past, AMD has been losing a lot of money and cutting back, while Intel has been making a lot of money.

Anandtech has a great tool for comparing benchmarks of most common cpus so you can see exactly how they stack up against eachother.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/39

If you are only interested in gaming, then the GPU is usually much more significant provided you have a mid-high range cpu.
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Benchmarks for various tasks will vary. Intel soundly beats AMD on performance/watt. Both AMD and Intel have similar performance/dollar. I can't predict the future, but I can say that in the recent past, AMD has been losing a lot of money and cutting back, while Intel has been making a lot of money.

Anandtech has a great tool for comparing benchmarks of most common cpus so you can see exactly how they stack up against eachother.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/39

If you are only interested in gaming, then the GPU is usually much more significant provided you have a mid-high range cpu.
 
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neither are future proof and very soon every ones cpu and gpu will be out dated due to die shrinks.

if your playing modern games not worried about maxing every thing out then a 8350 and a 280x will be just fine for some years.. at least until some new game consoles are released.
 
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------------Stock rant on 8 core FUD--------------

I have heard some say that 8 cores will be required for future games.
I think that is FUD perpetuated by AMD.
Game developers want the largest possible market for their games.
No game developer will willingly undertake the extra cost to make their game multi core enabled and also require many cores to run.
They would not sell many games.
Most games today only use one or two cores.
There are a few exceptions, FSX is one.
It is more important that the cores be fast.
AMD hates that because their cores are much less efficient than intel's. Perhaps 30% slower per clock.
That is also a motivation for mantle, a technology that improves the efficiency of graphics drivers.
Mantle is most important for slow chips, but is irrelevant for $200 class intel cpu's.
Just because you see activity on windows task manager across all cores, do not assume your job is using all those threads.
What you are seeing is windows spreading the activity across all available threads.
Then there is "Amdahl's law" which limits how many threads can be useful, depending on the speed of the main thread.
Today, a I5-4690K is as good as it gets for gaming.
I see many reviews from pleased users switching from a FX-8350 to a i5-4690K.
I see none who are pleased switching from a i5-4690K to a FX-8350.
The only reason for a i7 4790K compared to a i5-4690K is if the $100 difference is not important to you.
For your $100, you will get a better binned chip and some extra L3 cache.
The extra hyperthreads will not be very useful to the gamer.
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multi-core settings are nothing new.. dx11 and source engines have had the ability for ages now the problem was just that game developers where still messing around with dx9 and older source engines without taking advantage of the latest and greatest.

How many i7's have Intel sold since Watchdogs? more then they dreamed of.

 
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It generally depends on the game. CPU intensive games tends to run better on Intel CPUs. However, the less dependent the game is on the CPU more similar the performance will be since they are relying on the GPU.

Here's Dragon Age: Inquisition. As can be seen below when the graphics are maxed out the performance is nearly identical. However, when you drop down the graphic settings so that the game is not so graphically intensive, there is a significant difference in the benchmark results. But I am pretty sure no one is going to complain about the FX-8350's lower FPS.

http://www.techspot.com/review/921-dragon-age-inquisition-benchmarks/page6.html


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Far Cry 4's performance is dependent on the CPU as can be seen in the benchmarks below. A 4th gen Core i5 CPU is not in the benchmarks, but it should perform just as well as a 3rd gen Core i5 CPU.

http://www.techspot.com/review/917-far-cry-4-benchmarks/page5.html


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Alien Isolation is another example of a game that is not very CPU dependent so performance results between AMD CPUs and Intel CPUs are pretty close.

http://www.techspot.com/review/903-alien-isolation-benchmarks/page5.html

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