Intel vs AMD "Best CPU for Gaming" benchmarks!

[tarotaroro]

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Plenty of charts. Has the Core i7 4960X and the FX-9590 for the high end and plenty of other price points in between. Tests include low resolutions and higher resolutions. Nvidia 780Ti was used for the testing to eliminate bottlenecks.

So what do you think of the author's work and results? Discuss!!

The author, DGLee, is banned from our forums for spamming our forums with his articles. So that is what we think of the author
-ViRGE

 

[sm625]

That little i3 is a beast. Especially at higher resolutions.

 

[BrightCandle]

Some of those results are brutal for AMDs CPUs, literally half the frame rate of the Intel chips. The average and cases where they are equal seem to be very much GPU limited cases, where its CPU limited there is a definition increase in the difference. Really interesting but not results that all that surprising based on other gaming reviews we have seen.

 

[TeknoBug]

I'm wary of unknown websites, especially when you have to "click to see more" on those benchmarks.

Anyways it's plain and simple: poorly optimized games will choke on AMD no matter what CPU, my binned down i5 3550 was kicking my FX 8320's butt in many games- for games the instruction per cycle speed (IPC) seems to be the most important factor which is where Intel does better but a couple years from now we'll probably start seeing games that spread across multiple cores.

 

[Erenhardt]

Some of those results are brutal for AMDs CPUs, literally half the frame rate of the Intel chips. The average and cases where they are equal seem to be very much GPU limited cases, where its CPU limited there is a definition increase in the difference. Really interesting but not results that all that surprising based on other gaming reviews we have seen.

I almost believed you, but then I bothered to look at the charts. I had the opposite impression looking at 1680x1050 graphs. Old fx6300 is mostly where the new i3's are. In well threaded games its almost at i5 level of performance.

 

[Phynaz]

New reg and first post is a link to another website, and he hasn't been back.

Rather suspicious don't you think?

 

[escrow4]

It isn't hard buying a CPU for gaming anymore. You want the newest architecture plus the best you can afford that isn't AMD. So either an i7 or i5 Haswell refresh currently. Done.

 

[inf64]

I agree with Erenhardt, FX63xx looks really good, especially from perf/$ POV. And it can only get better with newer games.
AMD should really consider to bring in the 3 module Carizzo next year.

 

[BrightCandle]

Its not all the results that bother me, its a few particular games. They tend to also be games we know are highly CPU limited. Dirt 3 for example is where the 8350 and 30%+ behind Intel CPUs, even when you consider the price competitor. Its only at 2560x1600 that this comes back to being GPU limited and hence doesn't show the difference anymore. Hitman Absolution is another game where AMD seems to be a good 20 fps behind. Just cause 2 shows a 30 fps disparity, lost planet 2 has the the CPU half the speed of the Intel CPUs, sleeping dogs has AMD CPUs around a third behind.

Of the 13 games shown the AMD processor is more than about 25% behind in 5 of them. The averaging out across all the results hides the fact that in CPU limited scenarios for games that have well known CPU limitations the AMD processors are a long way behind. Sure you can ge to the point where you are GPU limited (which will have to happen at a lower FPS on AMD because you don't have the option for the higher FPS). That is quite damningly bad and I stand by my original interpretation. Where he is trying to show the differences in CPU performance there are notable and sizeable differences.

 

[TeknoBug]

And don't forget many MMO games, MMO are typically heavily CPU bound and Planetside 2 isn't much of an exception- even when I push 2.0 renderquality I get CPU limitations in any sized fight (sure I get GPU limit in warpgate and out driving while taking in the scenery).

 

[ShintaiDK]

Its the same korean guy that kept posting his site in the VCG section.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Its the same korean guy that kept posting his site in the VCG section.

Yea, I've seen these benches before. Nice benches, but seems like another self-promotion poster.



Anyway, my seven year old will have an FX6300 in the upper 4GHz range soon, he should be able to play Minecraft just fine.

 

[Phynaz]

Its the same korean guy that kept posting his site in the VCG section.

You're right.

This is DGLee. RBM busted