Soleron said:
disolitude said:
Sure they are...
It shows that PCIe x4 vs PCIe X16 on the exact same platform has little to no impact.
It also shows that having extra CPU cores which are utilized in 3D mark vantage doesn't yeld a much higher frame rate. 3.6 Ghz on Liano vs 4.0 GHZ on piledriver should be close enough in terms of core vs core considering Liano is sligtly better. Jane nash test averages 7 frames per second more (10%) on the FX 8350 while on the pure CPU tests it's doing 45% better. This is pretty telling as to where the bottlenecks are when it comes to gaming (GPU) .
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The PCIe part of your test I have no problem with.
But on the gaming test you can't tell which of the variables is causing the drop: low CPU thread utilisation, or IPC deficit. I'm interested in the 4-core test; I predict almost no change.
And also, who would buy an FX CPU for GPU-bound workloads anyway? In the FX price range, the Intel CPUs provide faster gaming performance.
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If nothing else, it shows great promise for the Steamroller, unless Intel comes out with something new that'd completely leave AMD in the dust at comparable prices again.
