vickybat
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Out of 24 benchmarks , 3770k(stock) was ahead in 17 benchmarks and 8350 (stock) was ahead in the rest i.e 7 benches and those consisted of a linux kernel compilation (a difference of 4 secs), GraphicsMagick ( won by a margin in sharpen but lost significantly in blur and resize), C-ray( linux raytracing benchmark) it won by 10 secs but majority of ray tracing is done under windows and cinebench is an example which is widely used. Its optimized for intel compiler. The only bench that 8350 did well was john the ripper blowfish benchmark and traditionally, amd cpu's do well in this test.
Then we have parallel zip file compression where 8350 has less than a sec lead. Then the x264 encoder again with a marginal lead by piledriver.
Finally one of 4 NAS benchmarks favours piledriver ( computational benchmark written in fortran).
Now come to 3770k. In the rest 17 benchmarks its ahead and in some, it has a big margin. Come to 3d rendering bench (TTSIOD). It has a lead of 15 frames.
Another complex test called FFTE saw amd perform poorly. Not even in contention. In the database search benchmark, 8350 @ 4.6ghz just failed to beat a 3770k in stock!.
Coming to scientific tests like himmono (poisson pressure calculation), amd is simply blown away by the sheer computational ability akin to the efficient IU and FPU of intel.
Same goes for the other two fluid dynamics benchmarks. Even in other encoding benchmarks like opus and ffmpeg ,3770k was ahead at stock.
So there you have it. Its not like piledriver performs great under linux but does a fairly good job. Besides, its not completely due to scheduling. Amd has been optimizing their compiler for benches like john the ripper. Intel does that for apps under windows which matters more from a productive point of view ( leaving the server market aside as its completely different). You can clearly see that intel too does well under linux and overall is a superior performer (17 against 7) and overall is a superior processor when price is no bar. And know this, overclocking the 3770k to even 4.2ghz (from 3.5ghz), the performance jump is significant coz it responds to clocks better due to an efficient pipeline design with better solution against hazards (will get into details later). Scheduling has very little to do here.
That said and done, i would still suggest the fx 8350 to a budget buyer who wants a piece of everything at a pricepoint be windows or linux. Its a better buy than 3570k due to its better multitasking ability at similar or even cheaper pricepoint. But for a guy who does 3d rendering and all the productive stuff with no budget restrictions, there is simply no alternative to the 3770k again be it windows or linux.
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