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

[Mungri]

skyrim is very single threaded limited. patch it for multithreading first and then watch it be gpu limited

Actually its not. Skyrim puts load on every possible physical core, it just uses the main thread more (about 80%), and every other core to around 20%.

BD should perform better than a 2500k because it has 4 more cores offloading so much strain.

I would have liked to have taken such a smoothness test too, and also 130 people is a very small sample number. Id probably have noticed that neither system was as smooth as my own tbh, I see so many people whining about lag and microstutter which has never been an issue for me.