What I don't understand is why AMD didn't add PCIe 3.0 support to this one... It would have helped in benchmarks like Skyrim & WoW:MoP.
I'm glad to see a definite improvement over the BD line, but I think for the time being I'll stick with my FX-6100, it does everything I need it to and then some. It's no high-end gamer-super-enthusiast-wtfHAXXX rig, but it plays my games acceptably for the time being.
It will be interesting to see if time has an effect on these processors as it did in the article
Better With Time? The A8-3870 and the Pentium G630, One Year Later: Quo Vidas, Llano? A Look Back and Ahead (Which aactually inspired me to switch from the G630 to the A8-3870 for my kid's Christmas presents this year)
@ Chris Angelini - Don't suppose you'd be willing to retry a few (not necessarily all) benchmarks on Windows 8 when it drops would you? From what I've been reading, it's more lightweight and sees performance gains for both intel and AMD, but the latter's gains are supposed to be greater. I don't think by a long shot that it will somehow catapult AMD into the lead, but I'm curious as to how it would effect each score (or perhaps do a side by side)