AMD FX 8350 VS Intel Ivy Bridge K series for gaming - interesting perspective

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@BlueFalcon

I like AMD and wish they were competitive. If you look 'before' you joined VGChartz you'd see threads where I recommended their CPUs. But I am a realist. And I'm not saying anything about whether you should buy it.

@Permalite

Trinity is not competitive on pure CPU perf/watt. When you consider the GPU and assuming you would be taking advantage of it then yes. AMD's graphics are still ahead of Intel's.

ARM chips will not work out for them, because they aren't customising the core so they'll be selling the same or worse as what everyone else with more experience is selling.

I dimiss GPU compute out of hand. I believe it will never be relevant no matter its theoretical strenghts. HSA is the latest in a series of failed AMD initiatives along these lines -> Close To Metal, Torrenza, the R6xx tesselator.

Don't mistake me for an Intel fan. Their recent execution has been good but I desire a competitive market and some of their business practices remain questionable (MDF, ICC)

I think in reality the market AMD is good for (people who want some graphics performance but not enough to justify a discrete card) is very small.