AMD FX in 2024 - Fine Wine?... or Vinegar?
Were the AMD FX CPUs REALLY as bad as many say?... How well did they age compared to their competition?... Do well threaded APIs like DX12 and Vulkan make them 'Fine Wine', or are they just 'Vinegar' today? Let's find out!
Bonus Content: Do tech tubers need to re-examine their testing methods? We'll look at this too.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
1:39 - The Problems I Saw / Why I Made This Video
3:20 - How to Properly Tune the FX Platform
6:49 - The Difference Proper Tuning Makes
8:38 - Budget Based Build Tiers and OC Details for Each
9:02 - Benchmark Selections vs Exclusions
13:21 - An IMPORTANT NOTE about Shadow of the Tomb Raider (*Bug)
14:59 - Benchmark: Handbrake
16:49 - Benchmark: The Division (2016, DX12)
20:04 - Benchmark: Ghost Recon Breakpoint (2019, Vulkan)
25:33 - Benchmark: Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2019, DX12, *Bug)
30:25 - Benchmark: Cyberpunk 2077 (2020, DX12)
34:50 - Bonus Content Recap
38:27 - Conclusion and Personal Comments
TUNING GUIDES:
https://www.overclock.net/attachments...
https://www.amd.com/system/files/docu...
Thanks to YT forgetting my "channel history", these links may not work immediately. Just do a search for the following document titles:
Official AMD FX Performance Tuning Guide
Official AMD Phenom II Performance Tuning Guide
Overclocking websites usually maintain copies of these documents for download
BUILD CATEGORIES: ( Based on BUDGET / VALUE )
Tier 1 Builds (+/- $10 of each other):
i5 3570, Stock Cooler, ASUS H-Series Motherboard, G.Skill Ripjawz DDR3 1866 @ 9-10-9-28
3.4 GHz Base / 3.8 GHz Boost (* Locked CPU and Motherboard does not support OC)
(* Bumped RAM up from 1600 to 1866 to maintain closer RAM speed & price parity)
FX 8350 @ 4.5 GHz, Stock Cooler, Gigabyte 970A-UD3P Motherboard, G.Skill Ripjawz DDR3 1866 @ 9-10-9-28
Tier 2 Builds (+/- $10 of each other):
i5 3570k @ 4.5 GHz, Tower Cooler, ASUS Z77 Motherboard, G.Skill Ripjawz DDR3 1866 @ 9-10-9-28
FX 8350 @ 4.8 GHz, Dual-Tower Cooler, Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 Motherboard, G.Skill Ripjawz DDR3 2133 @ 10-11-11-29
The Underdog ( Similar $ as Tier 1):
FX 6350 @ 5.0 GHz, Dual Tower Cooler, ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard, G.Skill Ripjawz DDR3 2133 @ 10-11-11-29
GPU for all builds is a Sapphire Nitro+ Vega 64, UV-OCd to 1690-1700 core, 1050 HBM2.
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX was used for BIOS settings and Tuning Instruction segment of the video.
ALL builds are running from a SATA III SSD
Windows 10 x64 22H2
Adrenaline 23.8.2
TESTING NOTES:
ALL Games tested at 1080p, on all detail presets.
ALL Recorded benchmarks were captured on an external capture device. The performance displayed in these clips closely represents your actual in-game experience.
I performed 1 'warm up' benchmark run since most games have horrible 1st run stuttering while loading assets. This is due to low CPU overhead with an unlocked framerate. This stuttering disappears under normal gaming with a frame cap / vSync.
I ran each canned benchmark 5x, discarded the lowest and highest outliers, and averaged the middle 3.
I used each game's built-in benchmark so that YOU can easily duplicate what I did if you want to compare your own tests with mine.
The benchmark videos tiled in the background were all run on the ULTRA / HIGHEST setting, in case you were curious.
OTHER AMD FX VIDEOS
Digital Foundry:
• Intel Core i3 6100 vs AMD FX-6300 vs Core ... - FX 6300/i3 6100/4130 - RAM Speed Matters + 6300 closes gap in heavier area
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt CPU Benchmark Tes... - FX 6300/8350 vs i3 4130/i5 4690k - FX closes gap in heavier area
• Best Budget CPU Face-Off! Pentium G4560 vs... - FX 6300 DDR3 1600 vs G4560/i3 6100 DDR4 2133/2400 - Even with slower RAM gap is small in heavy area
Jays 2 Cents:
• I blew up a CPU while benchmarking... FAIL - FX 8320 was beating i3 7350k before he killed it XD
RA Tech:
• AMD's FX Processors Were Very Underestimat... - AMD FX Processors were Underrated
• FX-8350 vs i5-3470 - Here's What Other Rev... - AMD FX 8350 compared to i5 3470
• AMD FX Overclocking Guide for 2019 - Maxim... - Another FX Overclocking video done right
CORRECTIONS:
AMD 700 series chipsets were not actually Dragon Platform. They were Spider Platform.