Quote Originally Posted by Zeus View Post
7.77 vs 7.42 points is only a very small improvement. If this new gen CPU can't do at least 9 points it's hardly worth upgrading imho.
About 15% improvement in V-Ray from what SUPERKAMES posted. That was enough to take AMD from being behind 2600k by around 10% to ahead by about 7%. And that's at the same clocks. We are looking at FX 8350 being 7% faster at rendering at the same clocks than 2600k and it hitting higher clocks. If we see 5Ghz on air on FX 8350 and IB doesn't reach that high, FX 8350 may end up being the fastest CPU in this price range for rendering.

Cinebench r11.5 is old. Rendering software is *constantly* changing and improving. To insist we use an older piece of software is ridiculous. That's like saying if we have two pieces of software that does the same thing, and one uses a better compiler and is faster that it doesn't matter. It matters greatly and if someone renders on FX 8350 in Linux (say Gentoo and they compile with latest GCC with flags to use FX 8350 instructions) it's going to mop the floor with a 2600k.

It is the same with transcoding software. Who is going to use old software?

This is why open source is so great and I don't think it's a huge coincidence that Linux for steam is going to roll out about the same time as Vishera. This will probably end up the same as it always does with Intel fanboys. AMD brings something new to the table and the Intel fanboys say it's useless, then Intel gets it and it's awesome. Just like when we had Netburst vs K8 (I'm talking about clocks), IMC vs FSB, x86_64