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Thinking of switching from Intel to AMD

Martini1991 said:
How about, buy nothing ;p?
If you're strapped for cash, buying something that will offer you little is a fallacy.
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Actually you are missing the obvious. Selling the 2500K and mb\cooler\mem will pretty much pay for the Amd system. I have 8Gb of new memory which I bought 2yrs ago for peanuts, its decent stuff too. Therefore I have a new cpu\mb\mem with warranty, for nothing. Make sense now mate. :D
 
Metro's fine in DX9 mode, but in DX11 it's just a stuttery mess on an 2500K, even at lowered settings. The problem's not there for i7s or 83xx CPUs.
 
rolypolyman said:
Actually you are missing the obvious. Selling the 2500K and mb\cooler\mem will pretty much pay for the Amd system. I have 8Gb of new memory which I bought 2yrs ago for peanuts, its decent stuff too. Therefore I have a new cpu\mb\mem with warranty, for nothing. Make sense now mate. :D
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Makes slightly more sense, but I couldn't be fussed with the effort.
 
teppic said:
Metro's fine in DX9 mode, but in DX11 it's just a stuttery mess on an 2500K, even at lowered settings. The problem's not there for i7s or 83xx CPUs.
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Like I say, this was before Thuban launched, so probably needs more testing, as like I say, the best AMD offered there was a Phenom II, and I know people were playing it DX11 with Phenom II's.
 
Martini1991 said:
Like I say, this was before Thuban launched, so probably needs more testing, as like I say, the best AMD offered there was a Phenom II, and I know people were playing it DX11 with Phenom II's.
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It's widely reported and I got the same results switching my i5 and i7 CPUs on both Win 7 and Win 8. It may be that the game just isn't optimised enough for DX11 on 4 cores. It's definitely not unplayable and averages are fine, but there's a lot of stutter.

e.g. more results,

i5 : http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/858/metro9o.jpg

My i5 results:

http://i.imgur.com/nhSMJgK.jpg?1

8350: http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/5553/desktop2013010515505116.jpg
 
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teppic said:
It's widely reported and I got the same results switching my i5 and i7 CPUs on both Win 7 and Win 8. It may be that the game just isn't optimised enough for DX11 on 4 cores.
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But Phenom II X4 owners, unless every single one of them lied :p

As if, and if this was the case, at the launch of Metro 2033 you simply couldn't use an AMD CPU with Metro 2033 for DX11 as none had more than 4 cores.
 
Martini1991 said:
That has to be bottlenecking, because it's barely faster than my R9 290 at 1000MHZ core.
And a 7990 "rapes" an R9 290 frankly.
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Maybe although I was seeing 99% GPU utilisation (both GPUs) for large parts of it. Not sure exactly what the benchmark tests. I'm sure the game isn't renowned for its multi-threaded performance.
 
Nobody's going to be shocked at games or benchmarks only really using two PD cores not reaching the same framerates as Intel CPUs. But the games listed were chosen because they are all like that, it wasn't a genuine suggestion for a rounded conclusion.
 
Current games by default don't use 8 threads.

I don't really care, all I know is, first benchmark in, and boom we've shown a bottleneck people pretend isn't there.
Not that the frame rates aren't playable, as don't forget the result, it was more than fine.

But as soon as people mention bottleneck "Bang they're an Intel fanboy"
 
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