AMD's smoothness factor put to the test by AMD & HardOCP...

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I doubt AMD's marketing team would post results of anything where the AMD FX CPU was clearly worse than Intel. Everything they showed in the last few months was hand picked to work in their favour.

i agree amd has been scummy but the windows patches to make the cpu read as a 4core 4 thread (like it really is) have made the chips play games alot better and while amd is not as quick in benches they are normally cheaper so once amd gets on the ball and puts out a chip only or cheaper heatsink at a $200 price point for the 8core it will be a great platform, and when u cannot oc like in an OEM product i still like amd better than intel.

What has stock clocks got to do with RAM and IO ? turbo mode does not improve RAM and IO speed, it only raises the multiplier of the CPU.

And Intel sucked in memory throughput in up to Core2 CPUs when memory controller was on the motherboard, since moving it on the CPU in socket 1156 and 1155 platforms Intel actually has higher memory throughput.

intels stock qpi speed leads to bad memory and IO performance if u stress both (so use the ram and pci-e) and intel needs turbo but they dont work stock with turbo when all cores are stressed, so by the nature of the chips they are the same in gaming. now throw up some wprime on 8 threads and amd wont fair well but for games they are nice right now, just a little costly.

and u can edit instead of double post.