FX-6300 Vs FX-8320

[Samsamproducts]

Why are people reccomending that you get an fx-8320 over an fx 6300 for gaming? most games can hardly use 4 cores, much less 8. it just seems like money that would be better spent on a better GPU or an i5/i3. Am I missing something that makes the FX 83** this great CPU? or what?

 

[Danbuscus25]

well, its not only more cores, its a different architecture. and, technically, the 6300 is a 3-core chip and the 8320 a 4-core chip. this will help clarify exactly what the differences are. http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-FX-8320-vs-AMD-FX-6300

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Don't use CPU boss or GPU boss the sites are a poor reference.

Those sites are a joke ^

http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/301/AMD_FX-Series_FX-6300_vs_AMD_FX-Series_FX-8320.html
Compare ^

 

[i7Baby]

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-FX-8350-vs-AMD-FX-6300

It's not just gaming that the 8350 is better at.

You'll also find some newer games want more than a 6300 eg http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=4546&game=Watch%20Dogs. i7's have 4 cores plus 4 threads (logical cores)

 

[caqde]

Newer games are increasingly being developed on very well threaded game engines. And with the PS4/Xbox One being developed on 8core Jaguar chips we are more likely to see games that use more than 2-3 cores in games. This would lead to chips like the i7 series and 83xx series getting more FPS than lower core chips. Also remember that even if a game for instance only uses 6 cores the 83xx would still be faster because the remaining cores will help the OS do background work. (Small but sometimes noticeable differences).

Besides that the Vishera FX chips are designed in such a way that certain games that use a lot of FPU math (decimal math) may be happier with an 8 core chip than the 6 core. (Every two cores has 1 FPU). So even though the FX chip is 8 core it really is 8 Core INT, 4 core FPU. Again just depends on the games you play and software you use.

 

[Pondering]

I find that multicore has gotten better with windows 7 and windows 8. My Quadcore runs windows along with other applications more smoothly than my dualcore. It is not about using all the cores for the gaming. It is about assigning a core or a few cores to a specific task. I game with 20 browser tabs open >.<