Havok1978, on 20 August 2013 - 05:56 AM, said:
Aff, the CE3 engine is multi-threaded so an AMD will perform better in those aspects which makes me wonder why its not in MWO, unless theres something else going on, this is why I was going to run the benchmarks on my FX-6300 in the first place before all this debacle broke out.
modern gaming will move more into multi-threading from this point forward I believe but will AMD hold the top spot in multi-threaded apps over intel? who knows to be honest, Kavari core sets hold alot of promise for AMD.
in the early 2000-05 era it was the GHZ race, now its the core race... who will come out on top here? who knows... but as far as most gamers are concerned there is a window of performance a CPU holds and the GPU makes up the rest. how "well" a game runs still depends on matched components and how well the system is tuned overall... benchmarks are like statistics afterall, they will support whatever claim is made depending on how they are skewed.
take for example my intial claim that my rig butchered an i7 gaming rig, this is in fact true.. but as I also pointed out to the crazy extremist on here, I was stacking a heavily OC'ed AMD chip against an intel stock clocked... I didnt pick my opponent though, I just ran the bench and thats what it showed me. both rigs are set-up to game, both game equally well, so at this point it comes down to the investment cost, the i7 rig was priced at 2700$ whereas mine was 750$
if the performance is slightly better then why not go with the cheaper rig? you would have to be insane not to.
so then it could be said, well if you OC'ed the intel... and sure then it becomes a bit different, but in that same aspect you could still upgrade to a higher performing AMD chip and still only bump the cost of my rig by 100$, then OC that chip and be ahead of the intel rig again, cept this time head and shoulders above it... still saving yourself 1900$ in the process...
though id wager it would prolly be closer to 1850$ due to needing to upgrade the water cooling cuz mine is close to its capacity for cooling a 5Ghz chip.
building an overclocked rig like mine is something that takes preplanning, or it just wont work out the way mine did..
I preplanned this build at every turn to combat heat and noise. so to get this type of performance from an AMD you need to put alot of for thought into it which some ppl just cant do or cant be bothered to do... buying the most expensive mobo wont do this for you, or the most expensive vidcard either etc... it really takes looking at your compnents and figureing out what you intend to do..
I was planning on getting an AMD A-10 laptop for on the go gaming until Catamount and I discussed it and he pointed out the power consumption, which I have to consider, I mean what good is it to have a laptop for portability if the battery is dead in 2 hours? so I'll prolly go intel on the laptop I buy, but i dunno... the lower price of the AMD is still tempting =)
AMD and intel will always battle each other, they are just doing it in different markets these days, intel cant compete with AMD in price range and for gaming its really a toss up and ultimately you can only clock an AMD up to fight an intel chip so high then you end up with a pool of slag.. the tech savvy consumer will play those margins regaurdless of branding unless they have stock in the company or wish they did... so price point really is what it comes down to.
sorry if i didnt follow much this post but AMD always comes out top in term of price vs performance IMO
yes it cannot beat Intel if both are on the same clock speeds but who care about that when AMD are much cheaper than Intel by few hundred bucks if you are comparing the best AMD and best Intel
yes AMD CPU are hot but the few hundred you saved could be use to invest on a good cooler and still game at decent frame rates.
Really hate those pure Intel {Noble MechWarrior} booing AMD {Noble MechWarriors}
Edited by Dragoon20005, 20 August 2013 - 11:32 PM.
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