intel i3-3220 vs amd a10 5800K black edition

[priscoo]

Which one is better for gaming? my gpu is hd 5670 512mb gddr5, amd have better frequency and i can use crossfirex, but i3 3220 seems more powerful.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

The i3.

But get a Radeon 7770. You'll thank me.

 

[Blitzvogel]

How much do you want to spend? A cheap G-series Pentium and an HD7770 would be a pretty good combo assuming HT doesn't have any major benefit for anything you're doing.

 

[priscoo]

How much i3 is better than a10? i'm deciding between those 2 only.

 

[davidthemaster3]

see for yourself http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=677

I.d say the i3 is a bit better and it offers up a future upgrade path if needed.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

The i3 is fine until you need more than 2 cores. For example, BF3 single player is better with the i3, but BF3 multiplayer is better with the a10.

 

[Yuriman]

The i3 is fine until you need more than 2 cores. For example, BF3 single player is better with the i3, but BF3 multiplayer is better with the a10.

True but it's not quite so black and white as that. Under 4-thread workloads the i3 may get 15-30% more throughput via hyperthreading (on top of its already large IPC advantage), while the A10 may lose as much as 20% single-threaded performance on each core by fully loading all the modules.

I'd say the i3 is a better CPU 95% of the time before you overclock, but the ability to get another few hundred mhz out of the A10 makes it quite tempting.

@OP, you already have the HD5670? I seem to remember reading that asymmetric crossfire tends to have much worse microstuttering than normal crossfire does, which leads to the appearance of having a lower framerate than is actually being rendered. I haven't ever tried asymmetric crossfire personally but it's worth noting that it may not be nearly as much of an advantage for the A10 as it appears at first glance.

 

[Jimzz]

See if you can crossfire the 5670, that would give a better advantage to the AMD A10.

Also you can overclock the A10, not so with the intel.

So I would say the A10 once you take into account everything.

 

[AtenRa]

Which one is better for gaming? my gpu is hd 5670 512mb gddr5, amd have better frequency and i can use crossfirex, but i3 3220 seems more powerful.

Since you have the HD5670, i will suggest the FX6300. At the same price as the Core i3 3220 it is the better choice.

 

[SPBHM]

5670 cannot be used in "dual graphics", so there is 0 advantage from that...
it's actually a strange situation, the A10 IGP will be almost as fast as that card... but you can't use both together... so... it's a waste of money.

I recommend selling the 5670, and saving money as much as you can with a cheap MB/mem... and then to buy a new VGA (7770) and a cheaper CPU (those $70 Athlon X4 trinitys should be out soon? I've seen a store with "pre order")

 

[laputan machine]

What cpu do you have now and what games do you want to play?
If you're going to add a discrete card then trinity(a10) is somewhat of a waste. A 3220 will be more than enough powerful for the 5670. The performance in multiplayer bf3 is a bit moot with that card since it will be the bottleneck and not the cpu.

 

[priscoo]

CPU-intel pentium 2180 e2180, MB-p5gc-VM, GPU-hd5670 512mb GDDR5(shogun2 goes fine)
should i go with 3220 or buy some cheaper i5 like i5-3470 ?

 

[laputan machine]

an i5-3470 should last you quite a bit longer as it has 4 real cores vs 3220's 2 cores and 2 extra threads. You will likely want to upgrade your gpu sometime in the future regardless of whether you get the i3 or i5 though, so you may want to save the price difference for that.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

CPU-intel pentium 2180 e2180, MB-p5gc-VM, GPU-hd5670 512mb GDDR5(shogun2 goes fine)
should i go with 3220 or buy some cheaper i5 like i5-3470 ?

Given how Shogun2 can use all the CPU-horsepower it can get, I would definitely go with the i5-3470. Add a Z77 based mainboard and you can even overclock the i5 with up to 4 bins, which make it -slightly- faster then the 3570K (3.6GHz vs 3.4GHz) at stock...:thumbsup:

You might also want to add a HD7770 too...