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

[Final8ty]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2715

Originally Posted by anand
After playing through the several levels on each platform, we thought the Phenom II 940 offered a better overall gaming experience in this title than the Intel Q9550 based on smoother game play. It is difficult to quantify without a video capture, but player movement and weapon control just seemed to be more precise. Of course, if you have the funds, we would recommend the i7 platform for best possible performance.

[BababooeyHTJ]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2715

Originally Posted by anand
After playing through the several levels on each platform, we thought the Phenom II 940 offered a better overall gaming experience in this title than the Intel Q9550 based on smoother game play. It is difficult to quantify without a video capture, but player movement and weapon control just seemed to be more precise. Of course, if you have the funds, we would recommend the i7 platform for best possible performance.

You know, I always noticed a few quirks here and there while I was on 775. I wouldn't be surprised if that were true.

I'm not at all buying that bulldozer offers a smoother experience than sandy though. Not at all and I've yet to make one person make that claim. I saw one guy on Rage3d claim that this framerates in Cryostasis doubled when moving from a Phenom 2 to 2600k. We've all seen the Skyrim benchmarks and the Arma2 benchmarks. In a lot of cpu limited games Bulldozer really lags behind. On the other hand Sandybridge really has been a smooth, issue free ride for me. I actually felt the same way with Lynnfield.

[Final8ty]

You know, I always noticed a few quirks here and there while I was on 775. I wouldn't be surprised if that were true.

I'm not at all buying that bulldozer offers a smoother experience than sandy though. Not at all and I've yet to make one person make that claim. I saw one guy on Rage3d claim that this framerates in Cryostasis doubled when moving from a Phenom 2 to 2600k. We've all seen the Skyrim benchmarks and the Arma2 benchmarks. In a lot of cpu limited games Bulldozer really lags behind. On the other hand Sandybridge really has been a smooth, issue free ride for me. I actually felt the same way with Lynnfield.

I'm doubtful that the BD was smoother on its own accord, the Intel could of had the timing slacked on the ram, HT turned on which can have issues in some games ect....

[Final8ty]

At the end of the day no enthusiast should take such things literally because the things that matter to us and things we notice would not matter to the average consumer, if it good enough to do the job for the average consumer then its a job done as anything more would just goto waste on them because they don't notice anyway.