You will need ~$650 bucks to match next gen consoles on PC

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ethomaz said:

disolitude said:

If intel slaps 8 cores on an affordable CPU it will destory anything AMD has. Even 6 core intels rape AMD's 8 cores easily in multithreaded tasks.

AMD is good value, plain and simple...and that is why its in our next gen console.

No.

Even Intel 8 real cores is weaker than AMD 8 real cores when you talk about multithread tasks... SMP is better in AMD CPUs.

Some example: http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/444/AMD_FX-Series_FX-8350_vs_Intel_Core_i5_i5-3570K.html

You can research if you want... the problems is that Intel destroy AMD in single-threaded tasks... the difference is way bigger than the advantage in multi-thread performance of AMD... and PC Desktops uses more single-threaded tasks than multi.

You pretty much supported Dis with that link though, i5 runs on 4 cores and at a lower clock speed yet is competing with a processor that came out at a later date, runs on more power, and can't run on more than 60C for a long time without the processor being damaged. The really sad part is if you OC the 8350 to let's say 4.8(general max) and the i5 to about 4.2-4.5, the 8350 would get destroyed.