AMD Vishera FX8350 Piledriver Review

[Damien c]

Logan did a bunch of gaming benchmarks between the new AMD FX 8350 and the Intel i5 3570k, i7 3770k, and socket 2011 i7 3820. To much surprise the FX 8350 in gaming and in game streaming beat out all of the Intel cpu's with the exception of Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3 otherwise Intel got smoked. Now before it is said no I am not a fanboy of either Intel or AMD I just want the best product for my money and with much criticism by many review sites it would sound as though AMD fell short once again BUT...... Uhh Hmm...*******!!!! Checkout the reviews from the consumers that have purchased it they seem really happy and giving out 5 count them ***** Stars so whats with these reviews of it being pure garbage?

The overall score of a cpu is based on many factors and not just gaming performance.

Where AMD falls short is raw processing power to the point where iirc this cpu in some cases is out performed by a low end Intel Dual Core cpu.

AMD whilst being amazing in the past, have fallen quite far really hard and fast simply because Intel came out with something that AMD cannot compete with.

Sure Intel cost's more but for overall performance you are getting more from Intel than you do from AMD.

The only time at the moment I would buy a AMD based system is for a media pc and small lan pc combined, in a M-ATX case because for everything else I will use my Intel based pc because it's faster at video editing etc and also there is no issue with having, to update the bios on the motherboard just to be able to play a game.

 

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Amd really needs to get their collective heads our of their asses!

 

[TAWN]

Logan did a bunch of gaming benchmarks between the new AMD FX 8350 and the Intel i5 3570k, i7 3770k, and socket 2011 i7 3820. To much surprise the FX 8350 in gaming and in game streaming beat out all of the Intel cpu's with the exception of Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3 otherwise Intel got smoked. Now before it is said no I am not a fanboy of either Intel or AMD I just want the best product for my money and with much criticism by many review sites it would sound as though AMD fell short once again BUT...... Uhh Hmm...********!!!! Checkout the reviews from the consumers that have purchased it they seem really happy and giving out 5 count them ***** Stars so whats with these reviews of it being pure garbage?

Saw the reviews today myself. I must agree, end of the day it is personal choice. But as budget vs performance goes..... AMD wins!

 

[dugdiamond]

h34r: watching thread

 

[grassman]

The overall score of a cpu is based on many factors and not just gaming performance.

Where AMD falls short is raw processing power to the point where iirc this cpu in some cases is out performed by a low end Intel Dual Core cpu.

AMD whilst being amazing in the past, have fallen quite far really hard and fast simply because Intel came out with something that AMD cannot compete with.

Sure Intel cost's more but for overall performance you are getting more from Intel than you do from AMD.

The only time at the moment I would buy a AMD based system is for a media pc and small lan pc combined, in a M-ATX case because for everything else I will use my Intel based pc because it's faster at video editing etc and also there is no issue with having, to update the bios on the motherboard just to be able to play a game.

If logan is right then I don't see how its anything below a silver considering most people are just PC gamers this should be the gaming CPU to get and considering the multithreading is good as well then it should be a no brainier.. Why on earth do we still need single threaded applications everything is going multi.

 

[Damien c]

If logan is right then I don't see how its anything below a silver considering most people are just PC gamers this should be the gaming CPU to get and considering the multithreading is good as well then it should be a no brainier.. Why on earth do we still need single threaded applications everything is going multi.

I agree we need more multi thread app's but at the moment the only testing that can be done is using allot of single threaded app's, and that is where the AMD cpu's fall short compared to Intel.

It is all down to personal choice as to which you buy, but if you want overall gaming performance only then yes the AMD would be better aslong as you play the games where it out performs Intel, and also stream the gameplay that was mentioned but if you only play the likes of the Crysis games and Battlefield games and don't, do streaming then you are better with a Intel CPU.

If you want something that is nearly as good for gaming and do allot of video editing, and use allot of single threaded apps then you are better off with the Intel cpu.

Most pc users who build there own computer, do research before buying a cpu and will go for the cpu that offers the best performance for what they want to do, aslong as it's in the budget.

For me the best cpu I could afford at the time of building my pc was a 2700K, but if I could then I would have built a 3930K based system because that is better for my needs, if the AMD chip's at that time were better for my needs then I would have built using that, but they were not better than the Intel.

The end result is simple a score is given to a cpu based, on what it performs like in the applications that the reviewer uses or has access to, and whilst it may just be performance that allot of people look at there are other factors to the score, such as temperatures, noise levels and power usuage compared to other cpu's and currently AMD is not as good as Intel.

People can say all they want about Price Vs Performance but at the end of the day, people will buy what is best for them and if they don't make a informed decision then that is, there fault for not doing enough research before making a purchase.

 

[grassman]

This is the CPU for for gaming though and the majority are doing just that gaming. Therefore these OTT reviews have completely destroyed AMD to the point of bankruptsy wth is really going on here?

 

[Princeatom]

Not so much of an improvement in my opinion.

 

[tinytomlogan]

I do find it funny the amount of fiction in this thread.

The AMD CPU's are bad, too much power not enough poke. You really are better off buying Intel.

Even AMD know it ffs, they are just humouring the fanboys now. Pretty much all their R&D money goes into APU's. The sooner people realise this the sooner they might actually wake up.

Shock tactic have to be given so they take us seriously and do something about the rubbish they are trying to sell us at the minute.

The only way you would buy an inferior CPU that uses MORE power would be if you cant afford to upgrade away from AMD already (kit you already have) or you are a blind fanboy. Lets face it there is a lot of them here.

As for aggressive members swearing, we do not take that lightly here. Debates are fine, keyboard warriors are not required.

 

[Princeatom]

I hope AMD wakes up and remember that their name means Advanced Micro Devices.