The difference is more or less around 4k like skud said.
3570k + board
INTEL PROCESSOR CORE i5 3570K 3RD GEN
MSI Z77MA-G45 Motherboard | Motherboard | Flipkart.com
8350 + board
AMD FX 8350 | Processor | Flipkart.com
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 Motherboard | Motherboard | Flipkart.com
So there you have it. At stock, multithreaded task favour 8350 . Overclocking is a complete different scenario though where i5 really surges past or perform similarly.
Why is a topic of different discussion which i promise we'll soon be having.
And power consumption of piledriver is also very high on load while overclocking makes things worse.
This might not be a deal breaker for everybody, but efficiency matters in the long run.The world is going green in all fields and people should know how important it is to save power. This is what drives performance/watt .This is also another area threatening AMD's survival.
Intel's expertise in fabrication and newer architectures will see tdp drop below 60w for the highest end processor and all the way down to 10w. How much power can amd save in its next iteration has to be seen. Even gpu's are getting efficient.
A difference of 150-200w is just too much according to me.
5-7k in cases of some higher priced boards Z77 boards.Anyway even 4-5k can change things if budget is a constraint.
Yes,in case of overclocking in most applications i5 3570k would have higher dividends.
Both platforms have their pluses in some areas over other.
Now if we take applications like video encoding,encryption which can use all the cores the fx8350 would be much faster at stock than i5 3570k.
And these applications would gain from overclocking because they can use all 8 cores.
For intensive visualization again overclocking or no overclocking,fx8350 is a better choice simply because of more cores and IOMMU support.
In case of 3D rendering it is quite close between fx8350 and i5 3570k.
In final rendering of models in applications like 3DSMAX,Maya,Revit fx8350 generally fx8350 should be better because these are heavily threaded but it is not the case always.
With overclocking i5 3570k would be quite fast.Again in ray-tracing fx8350 has the advantage.
With 5k saved one can also get a better graphic card which in some cases can translate into moving from hd7870 to hd7950.In such case not only there would be huge improvement in gaming but also a good level of improvement would be seen in compute like in case of OpenCL based 3D rendering.
In situations like this rendering through hd7950 alone would be faster than the combinations of fx8350/i5 3570k+hd7950.
Viewport renderings would be lot faster with a GPU having better compute.
Another thing to consider is,though in most of the 3D modelling applications final render and test render would use full cores upto maximum utilisation there are lot of other functions which are lightly-threaded like previewing the model in viewport and considerable amount of time is spent there are well.Here the single-threaded performance comes into play.
Now applications like Euler3d which are used for CFD analysis the 8 core fx is considerably slower because this application is memory bandwidth limited which is significantly better in case of intel 2nd gen and 3rd gen processors.Now if we move to an application like Ansys which is also used for numerical analysis and fluid dynamics simulation the fx8350 should be lot faster.
An fx8150 is around 10% or more faster than i7 2600k in ansys.Applications like Abaqus which are used for elemental analysis gains a lot from GPU acceleration which means a combination with better GPU would seal the case.
As far as power consumption is concerned at stock the difference would be around 100Watts at load.But that won't matter much.Ivy is lot more power efficient but still it won't be a factor for selection in many cases.
So while selecting the platform the things that would matter are one's requirements,how much he/she can spend,overclocking,applications used etc.
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