Quote Originally Posted by gallag View Post
Is fps not what makes a game smooth? I can see the argument in saying windows is smoother etc but in a game does fps not define smoothness?
How smooth the game is depends on how evenly frames are displayed. If you have 100 FPS but 90 of those is displayed on the first half of the second, 10 the second half. You have another computer that has 30 FPS but those are evenly displayed. Then the 30 FPS computer will be smoother than the 100 FPS computer.

Intel has one schizophrenic behavior. It is very fast when data is in the cache, it has high frequencies. But when it needs to communicate with other hardware it isn’t as fast, the latency goes up. On AMD the processor isn’t as fast but the processor is built to scale. Cache, hypertransport, IMC etc. Areas that will enable AMD to scale evenly.
You could say that AMD has worked on their weak parts. AMD don’t have any bottlenecks. Intel has worked on their strong parts but the bottlenecks still exists.