[SOLVED] What are the advantages of the i7 5960x over the FX 8350?

guymarshall · Jul 14, 2015

They both have 8 cores, the i7 has 4MB more cache, the FX runs at a higher clock speed. What are the advantages of each CPU?

whoratesit · Jul 14, 2015

Here are the key performance (and price!) differences.

UserBenchmark: Intel Core i7-5960X vs AMD FX-8350
Effective CPU Speed: 95.9% vs 63.9%
Intel Core i7-5960X - 1st / 838
AMD FX-8350 - 152nd / 838

GhislainG · Jul 14, 2015

i7 5960x - 8 cores, 16 threads
FX 8350 - 8 cores, 8 threads

High performance: i7 5960x
Lower cost: FX 8350

guymarshall · Jul 14, 2015

Is there any reason to use the i7 for gaming? Or is it specifically for extreme tasks that need a lot of computing power?

whoratesit · Jul 14, 2015

guymarshall :

No reason for gaming, an i5-4690K is enough. You need the 5960X for heavy workstation tasks e.g video / audio encoding and CAD packages.

guymarshall · Jul 14, 2015

whoratesit :

By encoding do you mean using handbrake? Or video rendering at the end of editing?

synphul · Jul 14, 2015

The 5960x is way overkill for gaming. Even the i7 4790k is somewhat overkill in a lot of cases and it's literally half the processor the 5960x is. In terms of cache, the fx 8350 has 8mb l3 cache and the 5960x has 20mb l3 cache. More than just 4mb more.

In a perfect heavily threaded scenario, assuming both cpu's can be used to their full extent - a 4 core i7 already beats the fx 8350. Imagine having 8 cores and the ability to run twice as many threads as the fx.

Looking at most tasks, typical usage, the 5960x doesn't get much of a chance to show its' true potential.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2014/08/29/intel-core-i7-5960x-review/1

It takes a lot of multi threading/multi tasking to make good use of it and for the majority of tasks, speed still gives more performance than core count. Provided speed is compared on similar platforms and families, like haswell to haswell. Not amd's cpu frequency to intel's since two totally different architectures are apples and oranges.

whoratesit · Jul 14, 2015

guymarshall :

Both of those tasks are able to utilize multiple cores effectively so will benefit from the 5960X 8 physical cores but remember these are highly specialized tasks and most computing only requires one core at a time.

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