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I know the i5-2500k isnt sub $200 but before you guys start talking smack, it was put in there as a reference. The i5-3550 can be bought at ~200 however
And before others start b!tching about the compiler, Intel developed their own compiler for optimizing their own hardware, that is hardly a compiler scam. Especially since there are several other compilers that are vendor neutral.
Anyway, I know these results aren't with any OCs but they are interesting nonetheless. Discuss
[QUOTE="punk2kgamer"]Seems about right. Metro 2033 and Far Cry 3 uses 3-4 cores to good effect. The other remaining cores are just lightly loaded. I guess that is enough for the 8350 to stay in a similar pace as the Intel chips. On the other hand, Starcraft 2 only uses 2 cores to good effect, and a third for some extra stuff. Anything over that won't be used. So Intel wins there because their cores are faster than AMD's. If next-gen consoles do have AMD 8 core chips, then you will see developers optimize their games for 8 core CPUs. Hopefully by then, Intel would have released a mainstream 8 core CPU.Is there something wrong with the 8350 seems low to me o.o
ShadowDeathX
It depends on what kind of operations those cores are doing. Remember 8350 only has 4 floating point units, just like the i5s and i7s. And it has 8 integer cores. Notice how it beats the i5 when doing integer calculations.
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