i5 4690k vs amd fx 8350

[6londie]

Hey, as the title states, I am deciding between these two processors. I am wondering which one would have better performance in modded minecraft while hosting a minecraft server. And also maybe recording gameplay at the same time.

 

[Wisecracker]

The FX-8320E is $120, and should work fine.

 

[6londie]

I am leaning towards a Xeon e3 1230 v2 actually, I just saw a great deal on it

 

[Andrei_316]

I am leaning towards a Xeon e3 1230 v2 actually, I just saw a great deal on it

Better choice! The e3 Xeons are amazing at its price point

 

[omko1907]

i5 for sure... believe me its better like 10 times for gaming ........

 

[Undying89]

Sadly yes, i5 is alot better for a gamer.

 

[datRobot]

For games like CoD or Far Cry (Battlefield works better on AMD) i would go with I5 because of their high single-core performance and these are more GPU intensive games. But for a game like Minecraft, Skyrim, Civilization V, a CPU intensive game ( a game in which the major part of the performance comes for the CPU) AMD wins the battle and have almost supreme control because of their multi-core performance which is WAY better than Intel's. The 8350 will be a better choice in your case.

 

[VenBaja]

For games like CoD or Far Cry (Battlefield works better on AMD) i would go with I5 because of their high single-core performance and these are more GPU intensive games. But for a game like Minecraft, Skyrim, Civilization V, a CPU intensive game ( a game in which the major part of the performance comes for the CPU) AMD wins the battle and have almost supreme control because of their multi-core performance which is WAY better than Intel's. The 8350 will be a better choice in your case.

Come on man quit trolling. Seriously though, funny post.

 

[datRobot]

-_-

Minecraft IS the most CPU intensive game (and even more while modded). Since it can use multi-core, AMD WILL be better than INTEL but only in games like this.

 

[AMD_Liquidify]

AMD will actually be better since he is recording. Minecraft takes advantage of 2-4 of the cores while the recording software will take advantage of the others. AMD is better for livestreaming and such. I'd say go with the FX-8350. The xeons can barely be overclocked and will fall short if you are able to buy a good motherboard for the 8350 and overclock it to 4.5 ghz or higher. If your on a budget, I'd go with the 8350 and just overclock it.

 

[AMD_Liquidify]

-_-

Minecraft IS the most CPU intensive game (and even more while modded). Since it can use multi-core, AMD WILL be better than INTEL but only in games like this.

How is Minecraft the most CPU intensive? There games that use many more cores than Minecraft. The only reason AMD would be better is that he is recording.

 

[datRobot]

It is one of the most, have you ever tried extreme things on Minecraft like filling 5000 blocks with TNT and exploding it, it crashes on the VAST MAJORITY of builds.

 

[zeyuanfu]

For streaming, AMD would win here because of its number of cores (albeit weak ones). For recording, though, there won't be much of a difference between an i5 and an FX.
@datRobot Crysis 3 is actually probably the most CPU-heavy game out there. Heck, my 2007 Pentium laptop runned Minecraft with ~50 mods at around 40 FPS WHILE RECORDING. Too bad the crap Amazon power cord fried the screen...
For general knowledge, an FX-8350 is an overclocked 8320, and it's NOT worth the extra 30-40$. Get the 8320 and a NH-D14. For Xeons, starting with the E3-1230V3, they're quad-cores with Hyper-Threading.

 

[jaguarskx]

For games like CoD or Far Cry (Battlefield works better on AMD) i would go with I5 because of their high single-core performance and these are more GPU intensive games. But for a game like Minecraft, Skyrim, Civilization V, a CPU intensive game ( a game in which the major part of the performance comes for the CPU) AMD wins the battle and have almost supreme control because of their multi-core performance which is WAY better than Intel's. The 8350 will be a better choice in your case.

Unfortunately, it seems you do not know what you are talking about....

Intel dominates AMD in Skyrim. Below is are benchmarks for Skyrim when it was released back in 2011. Pile Driver is an improvement over Bulldozer, but not enough to close the 34% performance gap between the FX-8150 and the i5-2500k.

http://www.techspot.com/review/467-skyrim-performance/page7.html

Civilization 5 is an older game so the below benchmarks has the Phenom II and the 1st generation Core i5. The performance is pretty close. Since 2010 Intel has done a lot to improve IPC (instructions per cycle / clock) executions, more than AMD has been able to do, so with newer generation AMD and Intel CPUs the performance gap only increases.

http://www.techspot.com/review/320-civilization-v-performance/page12.html

The following is Far Cry 4 and it is a pretty CPU intensive game. Note that the Core i3-3220 provides the lowest performance of all the Intel CPUs. However, it provides better performance than any of the AMD CPUs.

http://www.techspot.com/review/917-far-cry-4-benchmarks/page5.html

Below are benchmarks for Dragon Age Inquisition. The AMD CPUs hold their own against Intel CPUs very well. There is not much of a performance gap. However, in the second benchmark the resolution has been reduced 1280x720 this causes the benchmarks to skyrocket and it basically means that Dragon Age Inquisition bottlenecked by the graphics card. Lowering the resolution removes the bottleneck to show the CPU performance difference.

http://www.techspot.com/review/921-dragon-age-inquisition-benchmarks/page6.html


Metro 2033 has been re-released as Metro Redux with better graphics. The graphics card used in the benchmark is the Radeon R9 290X. It is followed by the benchmarks for Metro 2033 from 2013 using the GTX Titan. The performance for the FX-8350 dropped from 66 FPS to 50 FPS or 16 FPS. The Core i5-3770k's performance dropped from 71 FPS to 58 FPS, or 13 FPS. In terms of performance % decrease, the FX-8350's FPS decreased by about 24% while the Core i5-3770k dropped by about 18%.

http://www.techspot.com/review/878-metro-redux-benchmarks/page4.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/670-metro-last-light-performance/page6.html


SimCity is a pretty CPU demanding game with a lot of things going on in the background. As can be seen in the benchmarks below a GTX Titan GPU is being used, yet none of the CPUs managed to get 50 FPS in that game. With the exception of the dual core i3-3220 and the 1st generation Core i7-920, the rest of the Intel CPUs performed better than AMD CPUs in this CPU intensive game.

http://www.techspot.com/review/648-simcity-performance/page4.html