How is my system with older vid cards better than my new system?

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Dustin Jacocks

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So I just built a new system with an i5 4690k oced to 4.1ghz. sli gtx 470s stock clocks. 8gbs RAM. I have another system I built not to long ago with an AMD fx 6300 oced to 4.25ghz with an AMD r930 oced with 12gbs RAM. So I ran every game I have on each computer and my intel system smashes in some games but wins most the time. So why is this? the amd r9 380 4gb should wipe the 470's right? I know the intel is way better than the fx though.
 
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Just do it, pairing the r9 380 with a weaker processor doesn't make sense when you have a more powerful processor at hand. Bottlenecking your GPU is the same as throwing your money to the trash in this case. You are not using the card's full potential. You will definitely benefit from using the i5 in games such as World of Tanks. Happy gaming.
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And what are those games? The only weakness of FX CPU's is in single threaded performance because of its architectural design. In games that are well threaded the FX fare better and can trade blows with some high end Intel CPU's.

With that being said if those games you are playing are CPU bound and heavily single threaded, there is no way the FX-6300 can win. Not even OC can help.

Games such as World of Tanks tasks heavily the CPU, and it doesn't even matter what graphics card you got, the only way to increase FPS is to use a CPU with good single thread performance. Lights, Shadows, Explosions and Particle effects are all done by the CPU.

With a Bulldozer for instance the most demanding maps in World of Tanks can drop you down to 30 to 35 fps, while a Sandy Bridge Intel can stay at 45 to 50. Remove light and shadows and you see 20 more fps on the bulldozer.
 
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It depends on whether the game(s) are CPU or GPU intensive, how well they're optimized for SLI etc, but the R9 380 should outperfom dual 470s. How stable your OCs are will also play a part.

The additional 4GB RAM is worthless in most cases, few games will take advantage of more than 8GB.

I'm inclined to think you don't have the optimal drivers installed for the 380 if the games are GPU intensive and are being beaten out by dual 470s. If it's CPU intensive though, I'd totally expect the i5 to win out.

*EDIT* FXingSerious beat me to it.
 
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Dustin Jacocks

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Yeah one of the games I like to play to World of Tanks, Bf4, gta v, metro 2033, crysis ect. And I do have the latest drivers the the r9 380. I think I'm gonna see what thats like buddiedd up with the i5.
 
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Just do it, pairing the r9 380 with a weaker processor doesn't make sense when you have a more powerful processor at hand. Bottlenecking your GPU is the same as throwing your money to the trash in this case. You are not using the card's full potential. You will definitely benefit from using the i5 in games such as World of Tanks. Happy gaming.
 
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