AMD FX and Phenom vs Core i3/i5

[winme05]

What I can affroad is FX 6300 or Phenom II X6 1045T. I don't know anything about Core Is, so if that's a better option, can you tell me about some of them in this prce range?

[yoječ]

Comparing game performance: Core i5 (eg. i5-3350P) >> FX-6300 > 1045T.

Comparing price/performance ratio: Core i5 > 1045T > FX-6300

[Shoumaker]

The thing is that Intel chip-set's are known to perform a lot better than AMD chipsets for example an i5 3570K is a lot more superior to the FX 6300 or Phenom II X6 1045T. But the thing is that Intel chipset's are also known to be a lot more expensive. So I doubt you'll be able to pick up a proper Intel processor with ~$107. You can pick up an i3-3225 or something similar which I would argue is better than the Phenom II X6 1045T. But I would say the FX 6300 is better than the i3-3225. An i5 chipset is out of the question since it's not within your price range.

Edited May 8, 2013 by shoumic

[Wolf68k]

@winme05

I'm with yojo2 on this. The i5-3350P is a better deal compared to the FX-6300. In the USA at Newegg the FX-6300 is $140 compared to the i5-3350P at $177. However PC Perspective did a review of the i5-3350P and among the many CPUs it compared it to the review includes an AMD FX-8150 and in said review the i5-3350P either hung in there or beat the FX8150.

So let's compare these 3 CPUs:

i5-3350P: 4-cores (no hyperthreading) at 3.1Mhz for $177

FX-6300: 6-cores at 3.1Mhz for $139

FX-8150: 8-cores at 3.6Mhz for $179

We know the FX6300 loses to the FX8150 in every way. The i5-3350P is only a slight step down from a i5-2500 (you can see that in the same review). The only time, in that review, you see the 8150 really beat the 3350P is in the 7-Zip test using 8 threads, but with 1-4 threads the 3350P still hangs with the 8150.

 

So we're talking about $40 more, for the i5-3350P, for a heck of a lot more performance compare FX6300.

[yoječ]

 

We know the FX6300 loses to the FX8150 in every way.

Not really, since FX-6300 is from a newer generation than FX-8150, thus it has eg. better singlethreaded performance (and that was one of the biggest drawbacks of the first-gen FX CPUs). It would be true if you compared FX-6300 to FX-8320/8350.

[Wolf68k]

You're right. My bad. 6300 vs 8350 must have been what I was really thinking of but mistaken it for the 8150. However when it comes to true CPU usage the 8150 does do better than the 6300 in some cases while the 6300 is better in others, but for gaming the 6300 is better between those 2. Source: AnandTech review

This does not however change my original thought though that the i5 is the better deal.

[winme05]

So we're talking about $40 more, for the i5-3350P, for a heck of a lot more performance compare FX6300.

Waaaait, we're not speaking international prices here. While the difference might be 40 bucks anywhere else in the world, it's about 40 LS which is ~80 bucks. And I'm somewhat scared that prices won't get any better when €uro drops in next year.