AMD FX 8*** vs Zen

[Guest]

Basically what the title says. What do you suggest. I was originally going with the 5820k, but HardwareCanucks took me out of that to get the FX 8370. What do people think?

[Godlygamer23]

To me, there's a disconnect between your thread title and thread body. In one respect, the title talks about the eight core FX CPUs and Zen. On the other hand, the thread body talks about the 5820K and the 8370 only.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

To me, there's a disconnect between your thread title and thread body. In one respect, the title talks about the eight core FX CPUs and Zen. On the other hand, the thread body talks about the 5820K and the 8370 only.

Basically I was saying:

 

Should I go with the FX 8*** or zen

[tp95112]

Before we answer your 8000 series vs Zen why did Hardwarecunucks for suggest the 5820k? What are you using your pc for?

[Sanderman135]

WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU GET A 8370 INSTEAD OF A 5820K?!?!

[incarnate]

First, what are you going to do with pc?

 

Second Zen isn't even out yet, for all we know it could be another bulldozer.

 

Third, why would you take such a huge step down in performance based on a forum post?

[manikyath]

my opinion on zen:

i need more athlon x2's to use my glass orb to predict the future.

 

beyond that: whats your budget and purpose?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, incarnate said:

Third, why would you take such a huge step down in performance based on a forum post?

i'm not specificly pointing to hwc or any other forum here but...

 

some forums are collectively very.. very dumb..

its amazing what things you find when googling around for answers.

[incarnate]

Just now, manikyath said:

i'm not specificly pointing to hwc or any other forum here but...

 

some forums are collectively very.. very dumb..

its amazing what things you find when googling around for answers.

Hence why I asked that very question lol.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, incarnate said:

Hence why I asked that very question lol.

well... i'm sure someone at hwc splurged up that bulldozer is as fast as haswell refresh, because the clock speed is the same, and the rest of them blindly nodded along.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, tp95112 said:

Before we answer your 8000 series vs Zen why did Hardwarecunucks for suggest the 5820k? What are you using your pc for?

I am doing content creation. HardwareCanucks did a build log with an fx 8370 and 2 r9 380xs

[tp95112]

1 minute ago, jkeasley said:

I am doing content creation. HardwareCanucks did a build log with an fx 8370 and 2 r9 380xs

Then you should go with a 5820k

[Godlygamer23]

19 minutes ago, jkeasley said:

I am doing content creation. HardwareCanucks did a build log with an fx 8370 and 2 r9 380xs

A build log doesn't imply raw performance. I would review the performance of both CPUs to see if the 5820K is worth it to you.

[Guest]

58 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

A build log doesn't imply raw performance. I would review the performance of both CPUs to see if the 5820K is worth it to you.

yes it did because he also did benchmarks using the 6700K and the 8370

[stconquest]

5 minutes ago, jkeasley said:

yes it did because he also did benchmarks using the 6700K and the 8370

You have been here long enough now.  Do you not understand that the 5820K is a better CPU than a FX 8XXX in every way possible?  A locked i7 6700 will outperform and overclocked FX CPU.  A locked i5 can keep up in many workstation loads even. 

 

FX is like five/six year old CPU in terms of performance.  An i7 920 (2.6GHz) is roughly equal to them.  Complete shit.

[Tech Deals]

6 hours ago, jkeasley said:

I am doing content creation. HardwareCanucks did a build log with an fx 8370 and 2 r9 380xs

I have a hard time imagining a situation where a FX anything would be even remotely close to a 5820K in any respect if doing content creation.

 

The Intel 5820K may very well end up being triple the performance of the FX chip, depending on what you're doing.

 

It does cost more however, but if you are doing it more often than once a month for fun, then buy Intel.

[Tech Deals]

5 hours ago, stconquest said:

FX is like five/six year old CPU in terms of performance.  An i7 920 (2.6GHz) is roughly equal to them.  Complete shit.

Well that is kinda blunt!

 

However, I hate to say, you aren't far off...

[Guest]

18 hours ago, stconquest said:

You have been here long enough now.  Do you not understand that the 5820K is a better CPU than a FX 8XXX in every way possible?  A locked i7 6700 will outperform and overclocked FX CPU.  A locked i5 can keep up in many workstation loads even. 

 

FX is like five/six year old CPU in terms of performance.  An i7 920 (2.6GHz) is roughly equal to them.  Complete shit.

Actually I disagree in that sense. Tek Syndicate did a video comparing the 8350 to the 3770K

I'm not giving you the link, you're perfectly capable of looking it up yourself

[stconquest]

7 minutes ago, jkeasley said:

Actually I disagree in that sense. Tek Syndicate did a video comparing the 8350 to the 3770K

I'm not giving you the link, you're perfectly capable of looking it up yourself

Does not matter if you agree or not.

 

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, stconquest said:

Does not matter if you agree or not.

 

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

 

The FX line is not meant for single threaded work

[stconquest]

Just now, jkeasley said:

The FX line is not meant for single threaded work

How is that?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, stconquest said:

How is that?

Multiple cores. I doubt it's meant to be good for gaming

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, stconquest said:

How is that?

I definitely wouldnt use it for gaming

[stconquest]

10 minutes ago, jkeasley said:

 

Multiple cores. I doubt it's meant to be good for gaming

 

9 minutes ago, jkeasley said:

I definitely wouldnt use it for gaming

Doesn't matter.

 

The i5 4460 (3.2GHz), with only half the available threads, is roughly 30%(best case scenario favoring AMD) behind the eight core AMD CPU... in heavily threaded workloads.

 

[pinksnowmanshandle]

For multi-threaded work loads the FX 8xxx isn't horrible, it's still not ideal because Intel still reigns supreme there too.

Really there shouldn't be any comparison made between the FX 8xxx and the 5820K...

The i7 6700K is fairly close to the 5820K....