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no, unless you dual graphics an amd APU with an r7 series gpu, but the performance boost is like 40%, not really worth it.

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no, intel CPUs are better for gaming

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In my first ever build PC, i thought this would increase performance. But now i've switched to an intel i7-4790k (from an fx 8320) and it works ALOT better.

 

Video rendering runs so much faster, multi tasking is a dream, and my favorite game Guild Wars 2 is running beautifully (On FX8320 i got 40-60 in open world, 20-30 in zergs. With the i7 4790k i get 60+ everywhere, even in zergs)

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AMD CPUs are actually better matched to Nvidia video cards. This is because AMD's CPUs are weaker than Intel's CPUs for gaming (lower core performance and higher cache latency) and Nvidia's GPU drivers use less CPU power, so it will perform better than a similarly specced AMD card with a slower CPU like an AMD FX, Athlon or an Intel Pentium.

 

Intel CPUs work excellent with either one and overall provide better performance than AMD CPUs in games. If you do a lot of video encoding and that sort of thing, then an AMD CPU is really good for the money. But no, there is no performance gain or shortcut to a performance boost by pairing an AMD CPU with an AMD GPU.

 

The best way to maximize your budget and get the most performance out of your system is to get an Intel CPU with an AMD GPU (since AMD's GPUs are priced better than Nvidia's). If you give us your budget and country we can put together a good part list.

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Depends on budget. If you use their apu and something like r7 250 it can be good config.

an r9 270x with a core i3 outperforms an a10+r7 250

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AMD CPUs are actually better matched to Nvidia video cards. This is because AMD's CPUs are weaker than Intel's CPUs for gaming (lower core performance and higher cache latency) and Nvidia's GPU drivers use less CPU power, so it will perform better than a similarly specced AMD card with a slower CPU like an AMD FX, Athlon or an Intel Pentium.

 

Intel CPUs work excellent with either one and overall provide better performance than AMD CPUs in games. If you do a lot of video encoding and that sort of thing, then an AMD CPU is really good for the money. But no, there is no performance gain or shortcut to a performance boost by pairing an AMD CPU with an AMD GPU.

 

The best way to maximize your budget and get the most performance out of your system is to get an Intel CPU with an AMD GPU (since AMD's GPUs are priced better than Nvidia's). If you give us your budget and country we can put together a good part list.

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In reality, when you switch from one driver/API implementation to another, you change some of the characteristics of the compute workload. Nvidia's driver/API implementation for DX11 is actually threaded better, and is, ironically, BETTER suited to piledriver CPU than AMD GPU's. By switching to nvidia, you've unknowingly given your CPU up to a 25% performance advantage (=FPS) in compute bound conditions.

In switching to the Nvidia driver/API stack, you would have effectively lifted that CPU bound hard performance cap up a bit higher. I expect you'd see BOTH better minimum FPS in compute intensive games and better visual quality with your new GPU. Whether or not the performance increase on the minimums is enough to keep you satisfied is another story. If you get sick of compute intensive games dropping below 40FPS then you're going to have to consider a switch to haswell.

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