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this video is brought to you by our trusted graphics partner Nvidia welcome to another Linus tech tips video where we have a pretty exciting comparison for you guys we're going to be doing the FX 8350 overclocked versus the core i5 35 70 K 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 across their 5 formula and then a Maximus 5 formula these are both ROG top-tier well I'm not quite but almost talk to your gaming boards from a Seuss we've got mush King 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 CL 9 1600 megahertz memory for our GPU we've decided to go with the gtx 660ti 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're running all of our games off of a nice cozy drive over the network we are cooled by an H 100 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 35 70 K 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 there might look a little conservative so our 8350 is clocked at 4.6 gigahertz and our 35 70 K is clocked at 4.2 gigahertz because 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 in 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 lag when I run onto you is saying so you take that for what it is 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 so 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 Crysis 3 recently came out with several publications saying that the 8350 performed better than a 35 70k in that particular game so we were like ok well we have the hardware we have the time sort of slick has the time and 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 video annotation here go check it out you can run our benchmark for yourself pretty CPU intensive and the 35 70 K 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 35 70 K coming in at 57 minimum and the 83 50 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 about 30% all right next up we've got Far Cry 3 so this is a new game running on CryEngine 3 and we saw very very similar performance between the 35 70 K in the 80 350 at our overclocks pretty much the same and this was true of the minimum frame rates as well so it was 43 for the 83 50 and 44 FPS minimum for the 35 70 K so the no I mean there's like those reports about CryEngine 3 favoring AMD architectures and multi-threading and all that good stuff may be true because our 3770 performed a lot better than the 35 70 K in Far Cry 3 so more threads more better Crysis 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 dip down to 20 well for the 3570 dip down to 29 now this was rerun a couple of times 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 look very similar moving along the battlefield 3 we've got pretty much a neck-and-neck dead heat but the 8350 edges out the 35 70k 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 start I can't get the same results as us and Skyrim that's probably why but the 35 70k did put up a pretty good show against the 83 50 in this one beating it handily and the minimum frame rates were about 50 FPS on the 35 70 versus 40 on the 83-54 dirt3 well this game ran really well on both CPUs to the point where it almost doesn't really matter anymore but the 35 70k does edged out the 83 50 again witcher 2 gorgeous game demanding game DirectX 9 game and I'm surprised every time I see this but in this one it was a clear win for the thirty-five seventy seventy six point eight versus seventy one point one however the minimums were more telling for this one with the 35 70k getting about 60 FPS minimum and the 8350 getting about 50 FPS minimum metro 2033 was another 35 70 K 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 Crysis 2 is our last one to wrap things up and this is another clear win for the 35 70 K with 76 verses 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 CryEngine 3 which is what Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3 running seem to be starting to favor multi-threading more so the 83 50 is an 8 core processor depending on how you look at it exactly whereas the 35 70 is a purely or core processor so as we move forward we'll 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 35 70 K 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 83 50 was the difference between playable and not playable we didn't encounter that except in Crysis 3 where we had that one dip but that looked like a bit of an anomaly even late I don't know what to say about that 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 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 other thanks for checking out this video on Linus tech tips don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos