CPU to match a GTX 760 - AMD or Intel?

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Guys,
as a project I've been wanting to do for a while, I'm building a gaming PC. It's not going to be high end because of a budget issue, but it's meant to upgrade my current Lenovo G570 shitty laptop.
The thing is I bought a EVGA GeForce GTX760 4GB DDR5 GPU and I'm struggling whith the Cpu choosing. I had an "I5 4440 3.1Ghz Quadcore" or an "AMD FX 8320 3.2Ghz Octacore" in mind; the thing is, which one will run it better? Both would come along with a good supporting Motherboard, 16gb of Hyperx 1866mhz Ram and a 600w EVGA Bronze 80+ power supply.
Keep in mind the fact that I'm new to this and it´s all in the process, all I need is just some pro opinions.
Thanks a lot !!
 
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For gaming, the i5 is a no-brainer. The AMD CPU has twice as many cores, but each of those cores is significantly slower than a core on the i5. The FX has similar, and sometimes slightly better performance in heavily multithreaded and scientific computing, but draws more than twice as much power to do so. Games generally only heavily utilize 2-4 threads, so more than half of the FX CPU will remain unused when gaming, giving the i5 a huge performance advantage.

There are actually relatively few good reasons to buy a 4 year old FX CPU in 2016.

Why not go for a newer i5, such as the i5 6400 or 6500? The i5 4440 is 2 generations old already.
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juannfox

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Yea the benchmark favours Intel a Bit apparently. The Amd option isnt that far though and is much cheaper.
Thanks for the help buddy
 
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For gaming, the i5 is a no-brainer. The AMD CPU has twice as many cores, but each of those cores is significantly slower than a core on the i5. The FX has similar, and sometimes slightly better performance in heavily multithreaded and scientific computing, but draws more than twice as much power to do so. Games generally only heavily utilize 2-4 threads, so more than half of the FX CPU will remain unused when gaming, giving the i5 a huge performance advantage.

There are actually relatively few good reasons to buy a 4 year old FX CPU in 2016.

Why not go for a newer i5, such as the i5 6400 or 6500? The i5 4440 is 2 generations old already.
 
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