ADM or Intel

[Uther39]

^ I did not know when did Skyrim received a patch but it's great to hear that. The review is not old. Piledriver was launched in october last year. I am refering to a review dated 24th January: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-core-i7-3770k-gaming-bottleneck,3407.html

As for the hierarchy, like I said all cpu's from the top three tiers cut it. and 8350 is same as a gen1 i7 so what? I see no point in comparing 100 fps with 75 or 93 or 157.
A 60Hz monitor will still cap it all at 60. And everyone's still going to see fluid motion.

Anyone imagining that 8350 can't push sli/cfx while 3770K can, must go through the metro bench in that review. at the highest settings 1080p, neither cpu's could deliver the 60 fps.

an 8350 is a great cpu as is a 3770K. Neither cpu will disappoint an avid gamer unless one spends half the time looking at what fraps is saying.

Know your game. Get the cheapest cpu that can play it at your choice of rez and min fps.

+1 all that.

 

[Rohan Rathi]

AMD is really behind Intel, it better pull out a rabbit with the steamroller chips.
Also, I'm shocked as the FX-8350 is at par with the i5 sandy bridge if not ivy bridge.
Windows 7 had a bit of a problem with FX 8350 as it doesn't actually utilise the cores in a proper manner. There's negatives all around for the FX series and if not any other, atleast the 8350 should be put up with the i5 Sandy Bridge!

 

[satyamdubey]

AMD will likely still be behind Intel Haswell with Steamy. They have branched out the decoder and have implemented changes such as dynamic L2 cache resizing and increasing integer and fpu unit sizes but impact of it all is yet to be determined.
Steamy will be a decent improvement over Vishera no doubt but by how much is still debatable and better not believe anything untill an engineering sample is tested.

My perspective on AMD has become more IGD oriented. Yes they have to pull out a rabbit but it is that "rabbit" which I am interested in and I feel that it will not be the immence IPC improvement that everyone desires and hopes for. That rabbit will be the IGD.

Intel is IPC and AMD is integrated graphics. Now we know that gpu is the most critical part in a gaming build. AMD with it's poor(relatively) IPC still drives high end cards to great frame rates though it is mostly behind Intel.

Combine that so-so IPC with their on-die gpu capabilities (ps4 specs!!) and I think most will agree that AMD will be very strongly placed in coming years in APU's. Single point solutions for gaming and let's not forget the dual graphics feature. Unified CPU-GPU package will be the norm and both Intel and AMD are converging on that. Discrete wont die, no way but it will probably favour AMD more.