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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with the budget gaming CPU comparison so a question I get asked all the time is which is better AMD or Intel and while there's no real clear answer to that it depends on what your going to be doing how much money you're going to be spending all that kind of stuff what we can do is compare some of the best budget gaming CPUs out there so on the Intel side we have the core i3 3220 and on the AMD side we have their new FX 4300 CPU as well as their a 1050 800 K apu for my tests I use two different graphics cards so on the lower end I used a Radeon 6850 now this is very similar in power to something like a Radeon 77 70 or GTX 650 Ti in all honesty this is probably about the same kind of powered graphics card this is going to go in most systems with these CPUs I also did all my tests with a Radeon in 79 50 which is a much more powerful graphics card and should show more of the weaknesses and strengths of each of the CPUs for the first test I use the fire strike benchmark inside the new 3d mark now this is a very graphically intensive DirectX 11 title which really destroys pretty much every CPU and GPU that you run it on here the 6850 was clearly the bottleneck as all three systems struggled to breach 10 frames per second for the most part as far as the scores go is basically a dead heat the core i3 barely edged out the AMD CPUs but really by such a small margin that would basically call this one a tie moving on to the 7950 it's clear that fire strike is very very demanding on the GPU as again all three systems score fairly close moving on we have battlefield 3 which is still one of the best looking games out there so for the settings on this one we have the resolution set to 1080p and all the graphics settings set to high now we could have pushed this a little bit farther however I did want to make sure that I could get playable frame rates on both graphics cards with the 6850 all three CPU score within one frame per second of each other which means that this is pretty much for all intents and purposes a tie now this is actually kind of interesting is that it means that even with a graphically intensive game like Battlefield we're still pretty much entirely limited by the graphics card and not the CPU moving up to the 7950 we start to see some more clear differences between the CPUs so the 58 head case starts to fall behind here scoring right about 90 frames per second whereas the FX 4300 score is about 93 and the core i3 scores about 97 so I wouldn't call this a huge blowout by any means however it is still clear that the core i3 does beat both of the AMD processors on this one next up we have far far three which is not only a very good-looking game but it's also a lot of fun when you're not benchmarking and doing the same thing over and over and over again like I was doing as far as the settings go here again we're playing at 1080p with all the settings set to high with the 6850 here again we see almost the exact same story is all three CPU score very very close together however move up to the semi 950 you'll see it's a little bit of a different story so the 5800 K notch is about 54 frames per second whereas the FX 4300 gets about 57 and the core i3 gets about 63 so again these aren't huge differences but the core i3 does edge out over the quad core AMD counterparts next up we have Skyrim which is a famously CPU intensive game in fact when it first came out you basically needed a Core i5 or i7 to actually run it properly however now with a few patches that has gotten better but it still does very heavily texture CPU for this one I install the high resolution texture pack and coring the anti-aliasing all the way up and put all the rest of the settings at Ultra with the 6850 we see a slightly for the core i3 however it's only about a frame and a half per second which really isn't a whole lot move up to the 79 50 and it's very clear that the 5800 K starts to ball night things with only 65 frames per second the FX 4300 does quite a bit better at about 77 however again the very clear winner is the core i3 with over 91 frames per second so you can call this whatever you want maybe there Intel biased or whatever but regardless if you're going to be playing Skyrim the core i3 pretty much smokes the AMD competition lastly I want to look into power consumption this matters in quite a few areas including your power bill every month the amount of heat that's being dissipated inside your chassis as well as what kind of power supply you're going to need to buy with each of these builds I did a run-through of Portal 2 with the 7950 and I monitored the power consumption using a kilowatt so the core i3 did really well here using only 220 watts whereas the 5800 K needed 257 watts and the FX 4300 need 278 there are a couple interesting things to take away from this if you're going to be using an entry a mid-level graphics card all three of these CPUs actually perform very nicely as there really weren't any major differences in the games that I tested even when you move up to a more beefy graphics card all three CPUs actually do a really respectable job so yes the core i3 did typically pull ahead but usually it was only by about 10% or so which while it is a difference it isn't massive in the fact that all three of the CPUs could handle a pretty decent graphics card like this without any major problems with actually impressive then there's price to consider when I first started this comparison all three of these CPUs were almost identically priced at about $125 however since then the FX 4300 has seen a price cut of about $20 now whether this is permanent not who knows but if it is a $20 difference actually makes it a much more attractive option as if all of that wasn't enough to confuse you guys and pretty much ruin the entire point of my comparison there's also the fact that the AMD CPUs are overclockable so with their stock heat sinks you're really not going to be able to get a huge difference however if you do want to spend some money on aftermarket heatsink you can't get a little bit more of a moderate overclock which could help narrow the gap between them and the core i3 of course the power consumption is already really really in the core i3 favored and with overclocking it's only going to extend its lead there so there you guys have it while both AMD CPUs have their advantages the core i3 outperform them both and took up about half as much power while doing it making it the winner this time if you guys are interested more feel free to check out some of my other videos including my $600 PC bill featuring the core i3 if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe anyway guys I will get you next time