I need help with CPU's

[QuantumBit]

Hey!

 

I'm building a gaming pc soon (Cities skylines and Space engineers) and I already have a build ready. 

But thats not important, my question is how come a 8-core 4 GHz CPU from AMD cost $140 (FX-8350 black edition) Yet a 4-core 3.2 GHz CPU from Intel cost $205 (i5-6500)

 

Why is this? I know it probably isn't, but is the AMD CPU better?

[NTDaws]

7 minutes ago, QuantumBit said:

Hey!

 

I'm building a gaming pc soon (Cities skylines and Space engineers) and I already have a build ready. 

But thats not important, my question is how come a 8-core 4 GHz CPU from AMD cost $140 (FX-8350 black edition) Yet a 4-core 3.2 GHz CPU from Intel cost $205 (i5-6500)

 

Why is this? I know it probably isn't, but is the AMD CPU better?

No way in heck is the AMD cpu better (excuse my french). AMD's architecture is ancient, Intel's CPUs are just more powerful and the architecture is always new.

[DarkEnergy]

Just because a CPU has a higher Ghz than another doesn't mean it's faster. Plus the AMD architecture is ancient. Also, the Intel performs much better at single core performance. 

[nitsuga5124]

The AMD one its older, that makes its transistors bigger (32nm), and the Intel one its a newer and it has better transistors (14nm).

If you are going to play City Skylines i would recommend an Intel quad core (i5) coz of its better single core performance.

 

City Skylines doesn't use more then 3 cores for some reason, you will waste 5 cores while playing it with the AMD CPU.

[Bananasplit_00]

AMD has a slower archicecture and less IPC(instructions per clock) resulting in lower compute power even at higher clock speeds

[courtiousdoge]

10 minutes ago, QuantumBit said:

Hey!

 

I'm building a gaming pc soon (Cities skylines and Space engineers) and I already have a build ready. 

But thats not important, my question is how come a 8-core 4 GHz CPU from AMD cost $140 (FX-8350 black edition) Yet a 4-core 3.2 GHz CPU from Intel cost $205 (i5-6500)

 

Why is this? I know it probably isn't, but is the AMD CPU better?

intel has hyperthreading

smaller transistors and most activities do not benefit form 8+ cores (producing content does)

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, courtiousdoge said:

intel has hyperthreading

smaller transistors and most activities do not benefit form 8+ cores (producing content does)

that I5 has no hyperthreading, they were beating AMD on the same size node too, its all about architecture and IPC

[QuantumBit]

1 minute ago, courtiousdoge said:

intel has hyperthreading

smaller transistors and most activities do not benefit form 8+ cores (producing content does)

Ah 

 

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

AMD has a slower archicecture and less IPC(instructions per clock) resulting in lower compute power even at higher clock speeds

Ohhh ok

 

4 minutes ago, nitsuga5124 said:

The AMD one its older, that makes its transistors bigger (32nm), and the Intel one its a newer and it has better transistors (14nm).

If you are going to play City Skylines i would recommend an Intel quad core (i5) coz of its better single core performance.

 

City Skylines doesn't use more then 3 cores for some reason, you will waste 5 cores while playing it with the AMD CPU.

Ok I'll stick with the 6500 

 

5 minutes ago, DarkEnergy said:

Just because a CPU has a higher Ghz than another doesn't mean it's faster. Plus the AMD architecture is ancient. Also, the Intel performs much better at single core performance. 

O ok

 

7 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

No way in heck is the AMD cpu better (excuse my french). AMD's architecture is ancient, Intel's CPUs are just more powerful and the architecture is always new.

Oh ok good thing I asked for help

[nitsuga5124]

I would recommend the i5 6400, it's a good price/preformace chip that will give you docent FPS on Cityes and  Space engineer.