AMD FX-8350 Vishera 8-Core CPU Review

Name: AMD FX 8350 Processor
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT

For our next set of tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Crysis (DirectX) and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (OpenGL). When testing processors with Crysis or ET:QW, we drop the resolution to 1024x768, and reduce all of the in-game graphical options to their minimum values to isolate CPU and memory performance as much as possible. However, the in-game effects, which control the level of detail for the games' physics engines and particle systems, are left at their maximum values, since these actually place some load on the CPU rather than GPU.

Low-Resolution Gaming: Crysis and ET: Quake Wars

Taking the GPU out of the Equation

The performance trend in our low-res gaming tests is a repeat of most of the tests from the previous pages. In both Crysis and ET: Quake Wars, the new AMD FX-8350 offers significantly better performance than the previous-generation FX-8150 due to its architectural and frequency advantages. However, the FX-8350 still trails even the "slowest" of the Intel processors by a large margin in these game tests.

Tags: AMD, CPU, processor, AM3, Piledriver, Vishera, FX 8350

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com