i5 4690K vs FX 8350?

[OscarTheTitan]

Hi everyone. I'm building a new PC in a few months and I'd like to see which CPU is better for gaming, multitasking, rendering etc.

When it comes to desktop performance I assume that the 8350 is better considering it's 8 cores but I hear that the 4690K has greater single core performance which is essential for gaming. Is this true or am I misinformed?

Is the 4690K worth the extra cash?

 

[rmark45matsu]

Multitasking, rendering, and for multi core gaming, the fx 8350. By multi-core gaming at least 5-8 cores. The 4960k will out perform any game that uses 1-4 cores. (That's the majority of games atm)

It can be worth it, if every single frame matters to you, depends on what you spend most of your time doing.

 

[DubbleClick]

Considering you're currently on an I5 3570k @ 4.4ghz, the fx would essentially be a downgrade, in everything but rendering.

And the upgrade to an I5 4690k is... simply not worth it.

However, if you want to build another pc - will you game on it or oc it? I5 4690k.
Will you ONLY render? 8350fx.

 

[OscarTheTitan]

Considering you're currently on an I5 3570k @ 4.4ghz, the fx would essentially be a downgrade, in everything but rendering.

And the upgrade to an I5 4690k is... simply not worth it.

However, if you want to build another pc - will you game on it or oc it? I5 4690k.
Will you ONLY render? 8350fx.

Whoops! I forgot to remove my old build. I haven't had that for a year (I had to sell it for financial reasons) And I will use this new build primarily for gaming. But render speeds are still important for me.

 

[DubbleClick]

For primary gaming, the I5 is very worth it.

For rendering, the 8350fx will slightly beat the I5. However, only if you don't oc the I5 and don't use programs that can make use of intel quick sync.

With quick sync enabled, rendeeing goes via iGPU of the I5. Hella fast, up to 7x less time consuming than pure cpu rendering on my I7 4790k.
(2 min 60 fps 1080p: 20s instead of 2:30 min)

Too bad a lot of programs do not completely support it (vegas only up to 21m bitrate, not really optimized).