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exciting comparison for you guys we're going to be doing the FX 8350
overclocked versus The Core i5
3570k also overclocked now our methodology for this is actually let's
do test bench first so test bench wise
we've got equivalent boards so a Crosshair five formula and then a
Maximus 5 formula these are both Rog top
tier well not quite but almost top tier gaming boards from ASUS we've got
mushkin Copperhead 1600 RAM now these
look kind of special but they're not really anything special in terms of the
spec they're just regular cl9 1600 MHz
memory for our GPU we've decided to go with a GTX 660 Ti because it's one of
those well it's very very very popular it's one of those ones where if you're
buying a gaming system of this tier this is pretty much the graphics card that
we'd recommend that you put in it we're using a Vertex 4 for our operating
system and we are running all of our games off of an ice scuzzy drive over
the network we are cooled by an h100 which is what allows us to hit these
overclocked frequencies and other than that I think we're good to go so the CPU
should be pretty self-explanatory our 8350 we scoured the internets for both
the 8350 and the 3570k to find out what
the overclock that 95% of people were going to be able to obtain so we didn't
go for as the best that we could do on these chips it was based on what we know
you guys are going to be able to do so they might look a little conservative so
our 8350 is clocked at 4.6 GHz and our
3570k is clocked at 4.2 GHz cuz we
consider those pretty much guaranteed numbers so this video is going to focus
on Windows 7 we are going to do a number of different videos about this and
different scenarios so this is Windows 7 without maxing out the game sort of like
crazy this is sort of how we would probably actually run them so many of
the games are run without anti-aliasing because I personally don't like it I do
find there's more input leg when I run antialiasing so take that for what it is
um but why are we running these tests these two CPUs are sort of widely
regarded as well the 3570 is the only choice for gamers uh sort of out there
on the forums and Logan from Tech Syndicate actually released a video
showing that the 8350 was competitive or even beat the 3570 in many games not
only that but Crisis 3 recently came out with several Publications saying that
the 8350 performed better than a 3570k in that particular game so we were
like okay well we have the hardware we have the time sort of
um slick has the time and uh so let's
run these tests let's find out what's going on here so let's start with Starcraft 2 Starcraft 2 we have a pretty
CPU intensive Benchmark our benchmarking guide for Starcraft 2 is available if
you click the uh video annotation here go check it out you can run our
Benchmark for yourself pretty CPU intensive and the
3570k kind of runs away with this one now you can see the average frame rates
on the graph right here minimum frame rates were pretty much the same story
with the 3570k coming in at 57 minimum
and the 8350 coming in at 42 minimum however it should be noted that these
this game is playable regardless of whether you're running at 40 or 57 FPS
but it is a big performance difference 30% all right next up we've got Far Cry
3 so this is a new game running on cry engine 3 and we saw very very similar
performance between the 3570k and the 8350 at our overclocks pretty much the
same and this was true of the minimum frame rates as well so it was 43 for the
8350 and 44 FPS minimum for the 3570k so
the I don't know I mean there's like those reports about cry engine 3
favorite AMD architectures and multi- threading and all that good stuff may be
true cuz our 3770 performed a lot better than the 3570k in uh Far Cry 3 so more
threads more better Crisis 3 similar
story again with the averages now this this was kind of a funny one the
averages were almost the same which is what you guys see but the minimum for
the 8350 dipped down to 20 well for the 3570 dip down to 29 now this was rerun a
couple of times so we did validate it but it's just one of those things where
it might have been a bit of an anomaly just kind of some weird thing but there
you go so averages looked very similar moving along to Battlefield 3 we've got
pretty much a neck and neck Dead Heat but the 8350 edges out the
3570k in averages but not in terms of
the minimum so the minimums were a little bit lower for the 8350 in Skyrim
it should be noted that our Skyrim run has 18 mods from the Steam Workshop so
guys if you sort of can't get the same
results as us in Skyrim that's probably why but the 3570k did put up a pretty
good show against the 8350 in this one beating it handily and the minimum frame
rates were about 50 FPS on the 3570 versus 40 on the
8350 for Dirt 3 uh well this game ran
really well on both CPUs to the point where it almost doesn't really matter
anymore but the 3570k does Edge out the 8350 again Witcher 2 gorgeous game
demanding game directx9 game and I'm surprised every time I see this but in
this one it was a clear win for the 3570 76.8 versus 71.1 however the minimums
were more telling for this one with the 3570k getting about 60 FPS minimum and
the 8350 getting about 50 FPS minimum Metro 2033 was another 3570k win but it
looks a little bigger than it actually was because the minimum frames were
actually very very similar in this game and that represents more of a
playability difference than average frames per second for most Gamers crisis
2 is our last one to wrap things up and this is another clear win for the 3570k
with 76 versus 68 FPS and a minimum
that's about 10 frames per second higher so conclusion wise in all of this newer
game engines such as cry engine 3 which is what Far Cry 3 and Crisis 3 are
running seem to be starting to favor
multi-threading more so the 8350 is an 8
core processor depending on how you look at it exactly whereas the 3570 is a
purely 4 core processor so as we move forward will the
8350 continue to become a more valid
gaming CPU I think the answer is yes it
has higher power consumption and it does run hotter than the
3570k but right now in current games that don't leverage all those CPU cores
it performs well enough I mean there's no game where the 8350 was the
difference between playable and not playable we didn't encounter that except
in Crisis 3 where we had that one dip but that looked like a bit of an anomaly
even like I don't know what to say about that um but moving forward the 8350
might begin to be able to flex its muscle a little bit more especially with
all of the news about PlayStation 4 having an x86 multi-core processor in it
who knows even though every PC game tends to be a console Port these days
looking at you game developers
ERS it may actually be beneficial for processors like the 8350 to have that
console presence so there you go folks we're going to follow up this video with
an anti-aliasing one as well as a platform comparison on Windows 8 to see
how on the very latest Windows platform these two CPUs compare against each
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