AMD vs Intel. I knew it was bad, but...........

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I came across this recent article.

Best CPU for the Money: AMD vs Intel Budget Shootout

All i can say is that i am shocked everytime I see how bad AMD has fallen behind.

Their 8 core Vichera FX-8320E which turbos all the way up to 4 ghz cannot compete with a modern 4ghz 4core intel cpu without hyperthreading!!!!!

Worse is this 4ghz turbo 8 core AMD chip cannot best even a modern 3.7ghz intel dual core chip, even while overclocked to 4.6ghz.

Its bad bad bad

here are some highlights,




Forget about even high resolution gaming, Vishera is just to weak even with 8 cores at 4ghz



Intel Dual core walking all over Vishera
And look at look at the power consumption for this lack in performance.


Whats worse is that its not just gaming, even task like encoding. encoding with 8 AMD cores





SAY WHAT!!!!!

This is terrible,

From the conclusion:

In the end, AMD's FX-8320E is an affordable quad-core processor that overclocks decently, but even if you pushed it to 5GHz it would struggle to match the slightly pricier Core i5-4430 and even the Core i3-4360 at times. Then after you take the power consumption figures into account, arguments for the FX-8320E begin to seem rather indefensible.

Free performance isn't exactly free if it comes at the expense of drawing more power and needing a more efficient cooler, so the humble Core i3-4360 makes more sense than the FX-8320E for budget users. There may be some great reasons to buy the FX-8320E, but we don't think it's the chip you want if you're after the best overall performance for the price.

Separately, we were surprised by how well the dual-core i3-4360 performed against the quad-core i5-4430. Although it runs 500-700MHz faster and has Hyper-Threading, we thought there would be a larger gap in our application tests as the i5-4430 actually has four cores. Given the price difference, we would also suggest the i3-4360 over the i5-4430.

Check it out,

any care to discuss

This really is shocking!!!!!