Viability of FX 8350?

[Amman]

Will the FX 8350 be a viable processor 1 year from now?
What about 2 years from now?

I'm referring to viability for gaming and general use.

 

[Traciatim]

You'd probably be better off with an i5 like the 4670k or 4690k for a gaming oriented rig. The 8350 performs fine for it's price, but it's priced lower because it's performance and efficiency is lower.

 

[Drew010]

I believe that it will still be a viable CPU, with games being more multithreaded, the CPU should be better utilized for games.

 

[Eduello]

Should be viable (I'm counting on it myself), although nobody can predict the future with 100% accuracy.

 

[enemy1g]

Games still run on 4 or less cores. In 2 years, the 8350 will be 4 years old with nothing slated or even rumored to be a new enthusiast oriented CPU from AMD. Let me ask you a question, do you think the 8350 will run better that a current (2016) gen Intel with strong single cores over a 4 year old CPU with multiple weak cores?

 

[Eduello]

Games still run on 4 or less cores. In 2 years, the 8350 will be 4 years old with nothing slated or even rumored to be a new enthusiast oriented CPU from AMD. Let me ask you a question, do you think the 8350 will run better that a current (2016) gen Intel with strong single cores over a 4 year old CPU with multiple weak cores?

The point of this thread (as I understand it) is whether or not the CPU will be sufficient for future games and general use, not if it will beat future Intel CPUs in those tasks...

 

[Rationale]

The FX-8350 will still be viable in 2 years, yes. If you already have one, it'll hold up well enough.

However, if you don't already have one, don't get one. An i5 will last longer.

 

[Drew010]

Games still run on 4 or less cores. In 2 years, the 8350 will be 4 years old with nothing slated or even rumored to be a new enthusiast oriented CPU from AMD. Let me ask you a question, do you think the 8350 will run better that a current (2016) gen Intel with strong single cores over a 4 year old CPU with multiple weak cores?

The point of this thread (as I understand it) is whether or not the CPU will be sufficient for future games and general use, not if it will beat future Intel CPUs in those tasks...

That is correct, it will certainly be an older CPU, yes, but it will perform perfectly fine.

 

[meyermw55]

I owned an FX 8320 to save a couple of bucks bought a top notch board and just everyday performance was average at best. The performance for me was so bad just had to sell and buy an Intel and they were two different worlds. I built an Intel sandy bridge 2600 which is still viable today. I have to say you'll pay a little more for the Intel but it will in the long haul be better.

Hope this helps

Michael

Will the FX 8350 be a viable processor 1 year from now?
What about 2 years from now?

I'm referring to viability for gaming and general use.

 

[WhiteSnake91]

You'll be fine for this entire console generation since they're only using 1.6ghz 8 core AMD cpus with a 7790 level gpu in the Xbox One and 7850-7870 in the PS4. AMD isn't the best for cpu intensive stuff like MMO or RTS though, the vast majority of games will be fine, although like others said I'd go with an overclockable i5 setup over it, or even the Xeon 1230v3 with an h81 motherboard(h97 if you want broadwell, but it's truly not needed to upgrade)


The Xeon is an i7 without the integrated graphics

 

[jaguarskx]

Will the FX 8350 be a viable processor 1 year from now?
What about 2 years from now?

I'm referring to viability for gaming and general use.

Viability is a matter of perception and expectation.

In many ways I still consider my Q9450 CPU from 2008 to be viable enough even for current day applications and games.

What are your expectation? The higher your expectations the shorter amount to time any product will be viable. As of today, the FX-8350 is still a viable CPU, however, it's performance in games is generally only equal to the 1st generation of core i5/i7 CPUs. Each new Intel generation CPU increases the performance difference.

 

[Rationale]

Will the FX 8350 be a viable processor 1 year from now?
What about 2 years from now?

I'm referring to viability for gaming and general use.

Viability is a matter of perception and expectation.

In many ways I still consider my Q9450 CPU from 2008 to be viable enough even for current day applications and games.

What are your expectation? The higher your expectations the shorter amount to time any product will be viable. As of today, the FX-8350 is still a viable CPU, however, it's performance in games is generally only equal to the 1st generation of core i5/i7 CPUs. Each new Intel generation CPU increases the performance difference.

Until a few days ago, I was using a Phenom II 955 from 2009, and it was 'viable'. Ran normal applications and day to day tasks fine, and kept games above 30 fps generally on ultra. Of course, the performance improvement overall was dramatic switching to a new i3, and the FX-8350 is further behind Intel now than the Phenom IIs were back in 2009.

I wouldn't expect the FX-8350 to hold its age as well, relative to their respective release dates, as a Core 2 Quad or Phenom II, but the FX-8350 would be fine for another 2 years. It's just not at all worth buying an FX CPU now for new builds.

 

[WhiteSnake91]

You know, that's true. There's still plenty of people gaming perfectly fine on their old first gen i7s and i5s, can you really say the same for all the people being bottlenecked by their old Phenom II quad cores? It's become a cliche term, but I think Intel cpus are more futureproof due to the much better per core performance. All these years later, and the Piledriver at best matched a Phenom II, Bulldozer was actually worse than Phenom II.

And with needing a good motherboard and heatsink to heavily overclock an AMD often-times it's more expensive than just going with a modest, but still very powerful Intel combo like an i5 and h81 motherboard. I really don't think there's a need to upgrade to broadwell besides epeen, the Intel cpus are already so strong, it's kinda stagnated since Sandy Bridge.