Gadgetory

if you've been following my channel for at 2 months or so you know that most of my PC bills have been based on Intel CPUs and it's like that for one specific reason these AMD FX processors are based on 5-year old architecture now I know what you're saying Greg they've been revised multiple times or these things are more efficient than they were back in the bulldozer era well ok I see what you're saying there but this is still 5-year old architect we're talking 32 nanometer transistors versus 14 nanometer transistors big difference there big difference in single core performance but what I want to answer in this video essentially is if you're choosing between a processor like this that has two cores and four threads or processor like this it has essentially eight cores but they're technically composed of four cores and eight modules then which one should you should you buy did you buy the older processor with more threads or the newer processor with fewer threads stronger single core performance stronger multi-core performance let's find out which one's the better buy very quickly I'm going to put the specs for both of our builds on the screen right now so you can take a look at those I think that I have balanced both rigs fairly evenly so we used a 990 FX board for the FX 8300 did to 4.4 gigahertz that was a pain by the way it was very difficult getting this thing to 4.4 but nonetheless we did manage to get it there and we used a kraken x31 in both instances and if you're wondering how on earth we overclocked our I 3 6100 to 4.4 gigahertz you can check out this video in the card above me it's a very simple process and that's why I have overclocked the i3 for the sake of these tests so that further ado let's go ahead and put these head-to-head see which one comes out on top well folks you may love me or you may hate me for the data you just saw but that's just it it's data and it's very difficult to argue it I have pushed both of these CPUs as hard as I could this one was literally about to melt on me and this one's bass clock frequency was making our RAM act a little strange I did blue screen of death one time I think it was running Tomb Raider in directx12 mode I restarted the computer we ran the test and it did just fine but nonetheless I don't think I could have pushed the CPUs any further than I did so 4.4 gigahertz for both it's actually kind of cool that it worked out that way but that's that's as far as I was willing to go and have been feeling somewhat safe about the temperatures that I was receiving on both I want to speak for a moment on a memory issue and that's because I got chewed out for it in the i3 6100 burst FX 6300 video you haven't already seen it click the card above me check that one out but nonetheless I think I got my ddr3 and ddr4 frequencies not closely matched now keep in mind I did not change the ddr4 timing so when I tuned it down from 3,000 megahertz my timings remained and the same tuning that they were for 3000 megahertz which created a slight artificial advantage for the FX processor when it came to memory management but nonetheless I still think that 1866 verse 21 33 while this one has lower caste latencies and this one has slightly higher caste Layton sees it kind of balance each other out if you disagree with me no problem just leave a comment and we can kind of sort things out but I think that the RAM was was fairly matched in both cases as far as the results go there is no hiding the truth the FX 8300 which I am getting very frustrated with for some reason that thing favors lower core counts and lower thread counts and I think I'm just going to ditch that benchmark altogether for the sake of consistency because my Pentium G 4400 was doing better than my 6600 K you should seeing how that all played out click the card above me but nonetheless I think that that test is a bit flawed so with that one kind of just scrapped the i3 really only did better in one game and it was by a significant margin but I think that when DirectX 12 starts taking hold and most of these games coming out the the higher thread count will definitely benefit those games in terms of single core performance rendering abilities and just straight IPC the i3 6100 continues to impress me with its single core performance it rendered our 1 minute video file in almost the exact same time that it took our FX 8350 nanometer architecture but nonetheless the FX 8300 it's kind of hard to say no to this so I guess I can conclude the video by saying the following things if you want to solve an upgrade path and let's say let's say you have a z170 motherboard and you want to put an i3 in it now an upgrade to an i7 later on you can certainly do that and in that instance I would recommend the i3 but if you're planning on purchasing a PC and sticking with it for three or four years having more threads will definitely benefit in the long run considering the fact that DirectX 12 is starting to take hold most triple-a titles so with that having more threads is gonna be beneficial in gameplay maybe not so much in a video rendering photo editing music editing all that but in the case of just straight gameplay the FX $8,300 contender I would consider if I was you that is my final verdict on these two CPUs with that I want to hear your opinions in the comments below be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you think it deserves one I forgot to do my thumbs up there it is give it a thumbs down if you think that we did something terribly wrong be sure to click the subscribe button if you haven't already don't be shy folks this is science studio thanks for learning with us