should I abandon the AMD ship? (Updated)

[Cheesesticksandbeer]

Just ran 3dmark...

Firestrike: 9377
Skydiver: 22150
Cloud Gate: 16602
Ice Storm: 118168

All stock, coming along. Need to OC my cpu and gpu.

Firestrike: 12282
Skydiver: 30953
Cloud Gate: 30176
Ice Storm: 174454

Wow, came in at 97% better than all results

 

[Ramses]

Tweaking stuff but just ran Heaven 4.0
Min: 8.6
Max: 166.4
Avg: 71.2
Score: 1793

Thats no overclock on cpu

Run Valley on the Extreme HD preset at 1080p
https://unigine.com/products/valley/

I think Valley and Haven are not especially CPU intensive on purpose.
I picked up like 8fps from the 8350 to 9590 and was surprised at that.

 

[Ramses]

Heaven 1080p extreme hd yada yada.
This is less a testament to the FX than it is to the ability of the benchmark to isolate GPU performance.

 

[Ramses]

You can see some gains for your new stuff in 3DM..

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4197274