Intel works best with Radeon, AMD FX works best with Nvidia!

[Willzzz]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...k,3471-11.html

Partly the story is expensive i7 beats cheap 8350, so no huge surprises, but what is surprising is that the 8350 doesn't work very well with 7970 CF compared with 680 SLI.

[kalniel]

Hello mr daily mail

Those aren't absolute scores, just improvement % for crossfire/sli, so you can't make any claims about working best, they just improve more (but the chart doesn't show from what baseline, or make any general statements about radeon/geforce).

[Willzzz]

That's why I included a link as well..

but just for you:

[kalniel]

Still relative. You can't make any kind of claim about X is best with Y from that.

Tom's is bad enough, but at least they are only claiming that crossfire scales better on Intel, and SLI scales better on AMD.

[scaryjim]

Could just be better SLI performance in general from NV being more noticable on the slower processor? I also wonder if the real story here is AMD's aging northbridge chipsets causing the issue: after all, the FX has to communicate over HT with the northbridge which then communicates with the cards, whereas the i7 has PCIe lanes built into the chip.

Be interesting to do see some tests of the A10-5800k vs FX4300, perhaps with 7850 v 650 Ti Boost scaling...

[Reaper2794]

I really hope this is a troll post..

It's AMD, not AMD FX, and comparing a series of AMD compared to all of Intel if that's what you're doing, is stupid

This is just in this case, it's not cause either one is optimized, simply a coincidence

Why do people do this, seriously, I feel like there are 12 yo kids going around saying ooh AMD AND AMD and Intel and NVIDIA WOOOOOOOO

/facepalm

[najiro]

Interesting results...

[DanceswithUnix]

I really hope this is a troll post..

It's AMD, not AMD FX, and comparing a series of AMD compared to all of Intel if that's what you're doing, is stupid

This is just in this case, it's not cause either one is optimized, simply a coincidence

Why do people do this, seriously, I feel like there are 12 yo kids going around saying ooh AMD AND AMD and Intel and NVIDIA WOOOOOOOO

/facepalm

To be fair I think there is a valid story in there somewhere.

If you want to go the good value route and get an AMD cpu, where are the benchmarks for graphics cards?

Anandtech are currently benchmarking with an Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.3GHz, Tom's surprise me they can even spell benchmark but have had an Intel bias for years.

GPU benchmarks with Intel cpus are easy to find.

[Willzzz]

Also I know we've had posts on here from people asking if it is better to match AMD with AMD, or even if it's possible to "mix and match" Intel and AMD.

The myths out there are that AMD GPUs work better with AMD CPUs, and while we've always known that there isn't much differne it is nice to know how big the difference actually is and which combinations are actually preferred.

It's interesting that even a single 7970 performs 4% better on an Intel system. 4% isn't huge but not totally insignificant either.