The Fx Series the BEST bang for the $$$ in Gaming pcs

[IamTimTech]

I have posted in your other thread regarding your concerns.

 

[Rafael Luik]

LOL I love that the thread title is completely proven wrong in a few posts.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=36940392&postcount=22
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fjMmhpAxA
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1074
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i3-4340-4330-4130_5.html
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/901-4/performances-jeux-3d.html

The Haswell i3 is better than the whole FX series, it's more energy efficient and it's cheaper.

 

[nVidea]

But someone says DX12 is coming up that would utilize all 6 cores of FX6300

 

[DubbleClick]

That would reduce the api overhead, not more, not less. If the game isn't properly optimized, performance is still going to be bad. And you can already optimize fairly well with dx11, but what dev team does? Dx12 won't suddenly completely change developers minds.

 

[mlga91]

Well, DX11 was released around 2009, and a lot of 2013 tittles still used DX9, i really hope that devs adopt it faster than previous versions.

 

[DubbleClick]

I see chances being even smaller to that. Dx12 does not only enable you to do more efficient programming by managing memory, it actually forces you to, which will be a new thing for many devs. And if they don't spend time optimizing, there's even less reason to go from dx11 to dx12 than to go from dx9 to dx11.

Dx12 is definitely a great thing, but what will it do to titles like AC:U, which could run flawless on 10 year old hardware if the devs didn't do an absolutely awful job at coordinating things efficiently.

 

[Rafael Luik]

But someone says DX12 is coming up that would utilize all 6 cores of FX6300

Sarcasm?

I'll believe it when I see it.

You can see in gameGPU reviews that games like Alien Isolation, AC: Unity, Civilization V, Thief, Far Cry 4, they all already use 6 cores of the FX 6300 some even touch the 8 cores of FX 8xxx and 9xxx, the result is the same: the Haswell i3 gets more min and med FPS than the FX 8350 and 9590 in those games all the while costing less in a cheaper platform and using less than half of the energy.

 

[i7Baby]

CPU hierarchy - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

There are no amd CPUs in tier 1; only Intel

Gaming - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8426/the-intel-haswell-e-cpu-review-core-i7-5960x-i7-5930k-i7-5820k-tested/6 - amd just bottleneck high end graphics cards too much.

But FX are good low to mid tier CPUs. They are good bang for the buck there. But not for high end PCs.