Will FX-8320 be a better deal than i5-3350p for future games?
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Hi guys,
I don't know if I'll be able to buy my desktop before April 2013 ( when Intel Haswell processors come ) but still I wanted to ask if FX-8320 was a better deal for future games since it has 8 cores and newer games might use more cores and it could help anything.
Both FX-8320 and i5-3350p are at the same prices but FX-8320 has less performance than i5-3350p at the moment.
What do you think guys?
I don't know if I'll be able to buy my desktop before April 2013 ( when Intel Haswell processors come ) but still I wanted to ask if FX-8320 was a better deal for future games since it has 8 cores and newer games might use more cores and it could help anything.
Both FX-8320 and i5-3350p are at the same prices but FX-8320 has less performance than i5-3350p at the moment.
What do you think guys?
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anderl12 said:
Hi guys,I don't know if I'll be able to buy my desktop before April 2013 ( when Intel Haswell processors come ) but still I wanted to ask if FX-8320 was a better deal for future games since it has 8 cores and newer games might use more cores and it could help anything.
Both FX-8320 and i5-3350p are at the same prices but FX-8320 has less performance than i5-3350p at the moment.
What do you think guys?
intel has less but better cores.
amd has more but crappy cores,
the fx 8320 cores are not true cores, only 4 modules.
gaming multithreaded is a long way away and the fx 8320 would be too underpowered to play them anyway.
- Nope, because it only has 4 FPUs.
- Each FPU that it does have is only about 70% as powerful as the FPU's in Ivy Bridge / Haswell / beyond.
By the time Haswell is completed I expect the Intel FPUs to be no less than twice as efficient per clock cycle than the AMD ones.
- Intel have 1 FPU per core
- AMD have 1 FPU per two cores (half as many Floating Point Units).
They like to document it as having two FPU's as the FPU can be split in half between the cores.
Block diagram says otherwise:
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- Each FPU that it does have is only about 70% as powerful as the FPU's in Ivy Bridge / Haswell / beyond.
By the time Haswell is completed I expect the Intel FPUs to be no less than twice as efficient per clock cycle than the AMD ones.
- Intel have 1 FPU per core
- AMD have 1 FPU per two cores (half as many Floating Point Units).
They like to document it as having two FPU's as the FPU can be split in half between the cores.
Block diagram says otherwise:
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