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core i5 4460 or FX-8350 for GAMIMG ?

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June 13, 2014 3:51:13 AM

should i get an AMD FX-8350 or Core i5 -4460 ?
it will be just for gaming .

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June 13, 2014 6:57:13 AM

the fx 8350 no question
its cheaper, has a higher clock speed, note cores, unlocked( so you can over clock) and has more threads.
the i5 is good but its less powerful but has a built in gpu and %50 more i3 cache
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June 13, 2014 7:21:06 AM

AliRidha said:
the fx 8350 no question


It's not as simple as that, and gaming performance entirely depends on the game in question. For example, Battlefield 4 is optimised to use all eight cores of the FX-8350 so it will have an immediate advantage. Games that only utilise two or four cores will benefit more from the i5, due to its superior per-core performance.

You could argue that with the Xbox One and PS4 having eight core processors, PC games will become optimised to run on this amount of cores. This may be true, but the eight cores in an Xbox One are clocked at 1.7Ghz, which is very slow in the PC world. When console games are ported to PC, developers are able to utilise much faster clock speeds, meaning that the games don't require so many cores. There's an argument for and against.

OP, what games are you aiming to play and at what resolution/settings? How does the rest of your build stack up?
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June 13, 2014 8:19:42 AM

bicycle_repair_man said:
AliRidha said:
the fx 8350 no question


It's not as simple as that, and gaming performance entirely depends on the game in question. For example, Battlefield 4 is optimised to use all eight cores of the FX-8350 so it will have an immediate advantage. Games that only utilise two or four cores will benefit more from the i5, due to its superior per-core performance.

You could argue that with the Xbox One and PS4 having eight core processors, PC games will become optimised to run on this amount of cores. This may be true, but the eight cores in an Xbox One are clocked at 1.7Ghz, which is very slow in the PC world. When console games are ported to PC, developers are able to utilise much faster clock speeds, meaning that the games don't require so many cores. There's an argument for and against.

OP, what games are you aiming to play and at what resolution/settings? How does the rest of your build stack up?

i will play games like watch dogs , and the most important for me ( GTA V and Fifa 15 ) at 1920 x 1080 (i'd like to play them on high at least ) , i will get either radeon r9 270 x or 270 .
what do u think ?

June 13, 2014 8:32:19 AM

AliRidha said:
the fx 8350 no question
its cheaper, has a higher clock speed, note cores, unlocked( so you can over clock) and has more threads.
the i5 is good but its less powerful but has a built in gpu and %50 more i3 cache


I have no idea where you get your opinions. Higher clock speed and more cores don't make it the faster processor. A Haswell i5 doesn't even need to be overclocked to perform better in games; the FX-8350 needs to be overclocked just to close the gap most of the time. They only even perform on par with each other only in the most favorable circumstances, or when GPU-limited.

Yes, Battlefield 4 can theoretically give cores 5-8 something to do, but even my old Core i5-750 doesn't bottleneck performance sub-80 FPS or so. You will be GPU-bound in that game unless you're aiming for some insane framerate, and yes, that includes multiplayer.
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June 16, 2014 1:42:20 AM

Well, GTA V is obviously something of an unknown right now as Rockstar haven't released the system requirements. As I understand it, Watch Dogs doesn't offer much of an improvement between four and eight cores, although a patch may soon fix that. FIFA 15, as far as I know, will perform better on an i5 than an FX-8xxx processor, but again, as it's not yet released, it's impossible to be certain.

An R9 270X is a fine GPU and will do a good job at 1080p. It's very similar to the older HD 7870, so you may want to consider that instead and save a few pennies in the process. Watch Dogs may need to have some advanced features turned off, but this is more down to poor optimisation. Hopefully, future patches will fix this. Let's also hope that Rockstar do a better job of optimising GTA V than they did with GTA IV.
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a b 4 Gaming
June 16, 2014 3:58:39 AM

The i5-4460 will be faster in most games than the FX-8350.
a b À AMD
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June 16, 2014 3:59:42 AM

AliRidha said:
the fx 8350 no question
its cheaper, has a higher clock speed, note cores, unlocked( so you can over clock) and has more threads.
the i5 is good but its less powerful but has a built in gpu and %50 more i3 cache


No. The FX-8350 performs worse than the i5-4460 most of the time. You've just listed arbitrary stats that actually have very little bearing on how well a CPU performs in most applications.
June 16, 2014 5:49:35 AM

The i5 is hands down superior. /thread
August 19, 2014 5:48:25 AM

A AMD core performs about the same as an intel core when the clockspeed is 1,5 times higher. The clockspeed of the 4460 is 3.2 GHz, so if you want the 8350 to perform the same you would have to overclock it to 4.8 GHz. The amount of cores is comparable, because the 8350 only has 4 FPU's (1 per module of two cores) while the 4460 has one for every core, so also 4. Since games are mostly floating point calculations, this matters quite a bit.

That said when converting a movie or music the 8350 completely destroys the intel because those are integer operations. Also I like to tinker with and overclock my computer, so I bought a 8320, hyper 212 EVO and a gigabyte 970a-ud3p and overclocked to 4.4 Ghz and I could probably overclock it further if I got better ram. Nowadays I would recommand the 970 GAMING from MSI though over the gigabyte board, but it will be about the same performance. Most chips can be pushed further too because my chip is kinda a dud.
August 19, 2014 7:16:52 AM

Go with the i5.
August 19, 2014 3:22:51 PM

The i5 will perform better in games, because most games use only 2 cores, some others use 4, so, the 8350 has more cores, but the i5 has better cores. 8 cores are of no use in gaming if no game is going to use them.
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August 19, 2014 7:11:49 PM

mlga91 said:
The i5 will perform better in games, because most games use only 2 cores, some others use 4, so, the 8350 has more cores, but the i5 has better cores. 8 cores are of no use in gaming if no game is going to use them.


Even the few games that use several cores still put most of their load on 1 core, odd as that sounds.
August 22, 2014 8:47:40 AM

i5 4460 the true power from fx 8350 only come when you do multi core software like render or photoshop
a b 4 Gaming
August 23, 2014 1:20:59 AM

who said "fx 8350 no question" ....
really?

prove it




a b 4 Gaming
September 7, 2014 10:02:54 PM

i5 no doubt. check the hierachy of cpu. the i5 will smoke the fx 8350 faster
16 minutes ago

fx 8350 for video editing or high core games.

i5 4460 will be great for almost every games that use only 2 cores.

I will choose i5 4460 if you want to play games and you do not want OC.

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