[Techspot] FX power vs performance

[Spungo]

Indeed,and indeed there is no cheap APU that can play 4k, on the other side any haswell can play 4k smoothly, even the cheapest one the G1820
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon-5350-sempron-3850_8.html#sect0

Interesting. The A6-6400k is clearly the winner of the first 3 graphs. Then it comes to 4k resolution and all of the AMD chips fail the test.

 

[JumpingJack]

That graph shows an i3 4330 getting the same frame rate as an i7 5960x. I can either assume Intel's $100 2-core processor is the same speed as their $1000 8-core processor, or I can assume the test data is wrong.

If you look at the graph, they all rail at 60 FPS, they did not turn off Vsync or remove the cap from the .ini ... it was a worthless bench more or less other than concluding AMD's best could barely even push it to the 60 FPS cap.

 

[el etro]

Interesting. The A6-6400k is clearly the winner of the first 3 graphs. Then it comes to 4k resolution and all of the AMD chips fail the test.

Intel and Nvidia have better video decoders. Maybe AMD have reached competitors video performance with the new Tonga(GCN 1.2) video decoders.

 

[svenge]

Two pages and we have the typical AMD thread.


That's why i don't frequent the CPU forums here.

Then go back to AMDZone if you don't like it here...

 

[Ramses]

FX series gets way too much hate and there are hyped up cherry-picked benchmarks of G3258 and i3s in dual-threaded games that get plastered all over the forums to downplay FX's competitiveness in well-threaded modern benchmarks.

While at this time I would choose an i5/i7 for my overall system build, the FX9000 series is still a very decent CPU performance wise for multi-threaded apps that's brought down by its high power usage and outdated AM3+ features set. If AMD is able to release a next gen CPU with 20-30% faster IPC on 16-20nm node, it will make great strides in capitalizing on its multi-threaded performance.


Considering how old the Bulldozer architecture is vs. Haswell, how inferior the node is that AMD is using for its CPU fabrication, and how little R&D and engineering resources AMD has, what they've done even be in a discussion of multi-threaded performance is nothing short of remarkable. Hopefully AMD can adopt a more modern node with its next 2016 architecture so that we get much needed competition in the $200+ CPU space. AMD also desperately needs to update its I/O chipset features set to M.2 32Gb/sec and by 2016 I would hope PCIe 4.0.

Very well said.

I'm eagerly awaiting the day where I have a good reason to upgrade my 9590. Hasn't happened yet. It's a step closer after seeing how much faster even my SSD is in my i7 laptop compared to my desktop. Still not enough though. I suspect want of M.2/pci express will move me eventually, but lack of CPU isn't going to be the reason that I can tell.

 

[dontsh00tmesanta]

I don't get why people feel the need to bash fx owners. Y'all are like iPhone users. Just let it be