Intel Core i3 4340 Review – Beating AMD At Their Own Game

[Boomstick777]

Can a dual core i3 CPU take on an 8 core AMD FX 8350 for gaming with a dedicated GPU, can it take on the IGPU of AMD's Richland A10 6790K APU?

Surprising results?

Full Review here - http://www.hardcoreware.net/intel-core-i3-4340-review/1/

*Thread updated (Page 3) with a new review from Xbitlabs.com, their review shows another great fight from the lil i3 against AMD's FX 8350. Very impressive stuff from such a low power dual core CPU.*

With Dedicated GPU. Up against 8 core AMD FX.

Power Consumption, Massive difference.

Perhaps the most surprising is the i3 beating AMD's Richland APU in BF4

 

[Boomstick777]

More utter rubbish.

Comparing a locked CPU with a factory clocked unlocked CPU = rubbish. Where was the part where they overclocked the 8350 to 4.8ghz or more?

LMAO. Little Timmy only has one leg. Therefore, if you enter a running race with him we're going to tie one of your legs up so you can only use one. Then when Timmy wins we're going to go on and on about how he beat you.

SIGH. Is it your life's ambition to post crap on forums? I'm seriously beginning to think it is.

And no, the results are not surprising if you have more than one brain cell bouncing around in your head. It's all simple arithmetic.

Intel = higher IPC. AMD = unlocked, so able to make up ground against locked Intels when you overclock them.

Locked Intel vs stock AMD = Intel win on IPC. So no, it doesn't come as a surprise at all.

Ha, so your saying they should have overclocked the FX 8350 to 4.8Ghz and then compared? How embarrassing if it still got beat and power consumption was off the charts. I think a stock FX 8350 being beaten by a dual core i3 in gaming is already bad enough to be honest mate.

This review speaks for itself, AMD need to update their desktop CPU's. Getting beat by a dual core VS 8 core, something is really wrong..

 

[Boomstick777]

Good. Let us hope these are priced well and OCUK do some nice bundles. I am in need of a new budget gaming machine and this looks like an excellent option.

^^ This.

 

[Boomstick777]

Moreover,those results make a Core i5 4670 look entirely pointless,as the Core i3 is the same performance.

Yeah, I think that's what the reviewer was illustrating, that newer lower tier CPU's are just as good for gaming as the higher tiered CPU's especially the older ones.

I've built a few Pentium Haswell gaming PC's. They are surprisingly fast, and use hardly any power, they just don't seem to bottleneck GPU's at all. Maybe if you're running 2or3 cards, but for a budget gaming rig, with a single GPU, Haswell Pentiums and i3's can't be beat imho.

@ALXAndy

Yeah that's great that it's unlocked, but I think your missing the point, all that power use and such woeful performance in gaming.. Come on man, the FX 8350 @ Stock shouldn't be getting beaten by a i3, just be thankful they didn't test the £47 Intel Pentium G3420 against the FX, there would be a few very upset people for sure.. AMD need a new arch on a better process. Less power consumption and higher IPC.

 

[Boomstick777]

More trolling, but with a disclaiming of "i'm not trolling" which apparently makes trolling immune,also if you say something like "I'm not trolling, I want to buy produce xxxx from AMD therefore I can't be a troll".

Yeah because anything that doesn't paint AMD CPU's in the best light is trolling.

Just posted the review matey, you do know I like AMD right, have many AMD components? This exact review has been posted on other forums as well. The OP's their aren't being accused of trolling. This is your issue, being defensive again.

An i3 shouldn't be beating a FX 8350 in gaming, it shows just how far AMD are behind. No point covering it up, let's hope they release new chips and don't just put all there hopes all Mantle.

 

[Boomstick777]

AMD really need to get competitive in the CPU market again :\

Intel are gonna rip all our balls off if they don't.

This ^^.

I'd never pick an i3 over an fx8320, that said.
People rant on and on about now much cheaper it costs for an fx8320 over clocked system is over an over clocked i5....

But then when it comes down to the fx8320 being the more expensive in the way of against the i3, it's ignored and the fx8320 needs to be over clocked and at a higher base set up to 'fairly' compare? Pull the other one.

But what do I know, I'm blates a fanboy, because I have an Intel CPU, whereas everyone with their AMD chips are totes unbiased.

Skewed opinions and hypocrisy galore more like.

That said, I'm with cat somewhat on the results lol, I know that an i3 2120 is capable of, and I see that bottlenecking a 7870.

Haha, 'Skewed opinions and hypocrisy galore more like' totally agree with your post. I'm with you on the older first gen i3's maybe holding things back. I don't know how that i3 2120 would perform so can't say.

It's really the Haswell low end CPU's that have become so good that they don't really bottleneck single GPU's at all. I don't know whether the newer mobo's have a part to play, but all the Pentium Haswell builds I have done have being surprisingly quick, power use is low as well. That really they are a good option for budget gaming rigs

 

[Boomstick777]

So if I'm looking at this right, in WOT the i3 4330 lower clocked than the 4340 in this thread, beats the FX 8350 and FX 6300 etc, but in Wasteland i3 max fps is same as FX 8350 but has lower bottom -3fps. That concurs with the review in this thread, the 4340 is a bit higher clocked so has more of a lead.

This i3 is pretty impressive tbh, consider how little power use it uses to achieve those fps, whereas the amount the FX consumes. Intel's chips are very impressive. I wander if 1150 mobo's come into play with improving performance..

 

[Boomstick777]

If a Core i3 in games which suit its advantages(heavily loaded two cores) is not even that much faster than an FX6300/FX6350,then in multi-threaded games it is not really going to do much better is it?? Moreover,those BF4 results contradict the ones in your article,and are closer to what people are saying.

Contradicts? The benchys you showed were for the lower clocked chip, that chip still beats the FX 8350 in 1 benchy and matches it in the other and beats the FX 6300 in both? The chip from this thread would be further ahead? That concurs with not contradicts.

More fps at less than half the power use, this is def a win for Intel anyway you look at it. I hope the under £50 Intel Pentium G3420 gets reviewed soon, like to see how it matches the FX 8350 in gaming.

 

[Boomstick777]

Morever,going on about power usage while have a Core i7 4770K and a R9 290 is hilarious. I should be the one bitching and moaning about power consumption(considering I only use SFF PCs),but it really is hardly anything in reality for anything other than people who spend 40+ hours a week gaming for the entire year. Not even my most gaming mad mate with 600+ games on Steam can do that consistently.

How many hours do you play games each week on average??

Yeah Cat, I was referring to the architecture, what I was saying is that the performance relative to power consumption is miles ahead of AMD, and in that sense the i3 is a lot better. Higher fps for lower power use. If I was building a budget gaming PC I would def go with the Haswell Pentium. If I was building a high end gaming rig I would go with 4770K. The architecture is just so far ahead at this point..

I do agree that in the future we will see more optimization for load spread across more cores, right now though, in the latest games you have an dual core i3 beating an FX 8350 in fps while using less power. That's very impressive for Intel, not so great for AMD. I hope future hopes aren't just on Mantle, I would like to see AMD launch more power efficient hardware, higher IPC, CPU parts. That's just my opinion though, I know some are happy with the current FX chips...

 

[Boomstick777]

I hope AMD come back in style with Mantle but ain't banking on it.

Ones thing is for sure we can't just have intel, AMD needs to exist and I hope they release something for everyone.

Same here, I'm secretly hoping they just don't want to hype their next release to much, so are remaining silent, come on AMD give us 8 core SR chips that can put a real whooping on Intel

 

[Boomstick777]

That baby is terrifying !

 

[Boomstick777]

This review contradicts every other one out there by huge amounts, it looks suspiciously like blatant Internet trolling, really, should not be given any attention, all it does is miss-inform people and they end up wasting their hard earned cash on a CPU that will not work well for them at all when the same money gets you much better performance with the one they are trolling.

This sort of apparent misinformation should never be given the time of day, let alone cited as fact, the people who end up wronged are people speeding their own money on the wrong product as a result of this nonsense.

With the utmost respect, Your posted review looks very bogus, Boomstick.

Here's another review bumhug this time from Xbitlabs.com, the i3 putting up a great fight against the FX 8350 in a lot of games and benchys. I bet peeps will say this one is bogus aswell ,

Oh well, I'll keep keeping it real son

At less the half the power use, a dual core Intel i3 taking on an 8 core AMD FX, very impressive architecture.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i3-4340-4330-4130.html

 

[Boomstick777]

That's two separate reviews sites, both putting the dual core i3 ahead of the FX 8350 in a lot of different things. So is Xbitlabs not trustworthy now?

Thing is even with that it's not enough for the nay Sayers, it's the most bias peeps making the most noise in the thread. Obviously I was gonna labelled a troll for putting this thread up, but it was more appreciating how good Intel chips are. Being non biased, you can see how impressive this is for an Intel i3, even the Haswell Pentiums kick ass, and coming in at under £50 are bargains. There's no need for people to get defensive. It just shows it's time for AMD to make improvement in IPC and power consumption, if they don't we could well see dual core Celeron's from Broadwell taking on the FX piledriver chips at the end of next year. Well unless Mantle gives the 8 cores the edge