If I could find a 4590 same price as 8320 I'm down
Price is key
If I could find a 4590 same price as 8320 I'm down
Price is key
If I could find a 4590 same price as 8320 I'm down
Price is key
Price shouldn't blind you when the i5 is so much better for not much more outlay over a 2-3yr lifespan build.
45xx v. 46xx aren't themselves really different.I just looked at the AT bench. They didn't have an i5 4590, but they did have an i5 4670K. I'm not sure what the difference is between the 45xx and 46xx
45xx v. 46xx aren't themselves really different.
i5-4460, 4590, 4690, and i7-4790, along with the Ks, are refresh (Devil's Canyon) CPUs, at +100MHz, compared to those they replaced, except for the i7-4790K. So, barring special sales, you generally would have no reason to buy an i5-4430, i5-440, i5-4570, i5-4670, i7-4770, or i7-4771, today.
I just looked at the AT bench. They didn't have an i5 4590, but they did have an i5 4670K. I'm not sure what the difference is between the 45xx and 46xx, but both have 6MB of cache total, both use HD4600 graphics, both have pretty much the same features from what I see. The clockspeed difference is slightly in favor of the 4670K in both the CPU and graphics, but it is a small difference.
Just going by current Newegg prices, the i5 is 33% more money than the FX. Sometimes it is that much faster and more, often it is only a little faster, and sometimes it is actually slower (and keep in mind I'm looking at a faster i5 4670K). "So much better" sounds like marketing. The i5 is probably the better CPU for most people and a more balanced CPU, but I think the difference for most people is really rather small in real world use. And as someone who builds on a budget these days, I'd much rather have the FX 8320 and put that extra money into a bigger SSD or better video card.
I looked at eight or ten of the most recent game benchmarks at game.gpu, and I forget the exact number, but an i5 *was* in fact 30 or 40 percent faster on average than an 8350.
In that case, yeah, I think Intel wants to keep the naming just odd enough not to be able to make a system out of it. 1-3 = i3, 4-6 = i5 (except for 2nd gen), 7 = i7 (except for 1st and 2nd gen)...and they can't name the Pentiums with the 1st digit matching the generation of the socket like with the Cores.I know what Devil's Canyon is, but didn't know if the 45xx was somehow different than the 46xx other than clockspeed. Seems like an odd naming convention, but then again AMD's isn't much different... an FX8350 and FX9590 only differ in the factory voltage setting and clockspeed, as an example. Thanks for the explanation. :thumbsup:
Always is the wrong test or great performance is just over the horizon, like a mirage in the desert, but somehow never appears. Even you own graph shows a 27 percent increase going from 8350 to 4690k.