Is it worth upgrading AMD FX-8350

[donkeypuffy]

Mainboard only has AM3 socket, so to upgrade CPU would need a whole new mainboard. Currently with a FX8350 at 4.2GHz which according to popular comparison sites far outperforms threadripper and Ryzen ???

Of course better mainboard witha AM4 socket will allow for faster RAM compatibility and PCI-e 3.0 GPU which could also increase performance greatly, but would necessarily be costly too...

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Puffy님이 먼저 게시:

Currently with a FX8350 at 4.2GHz which according to popular comparison sites far outperforms threadripper and Ryzen ???

Sources?

[donkeypuffy]

My sources are 3Dmark and Versus.com

[Talby]

Puffy님이 먼저 게시:

Currently with a FX8350 at 4.2GHz which according to popular comparison sites far outperforms threadripper and Ryzen ???

Have to agree that's completely wrong. In reality, the FX8350 at 4.2GHz is more closely related to an older i7 with 4c/8t, where the i7's IPC has it beat by some degree. That is, until you crank up the clock on the i7, then it beats it by a good margin lol...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrNKeLhDhsQ

[Wichtelman]

yes it is worth it and you could always sell your old system... fx is basically just extrem small budget with ok gaming...

[The Maddog]

Puffy님이 먼저 게시:

urrently with a FX8350 at 4.2GHz which according to popular comparison sites far outperforms threadripper and Ryzen ???

Errrr...


Yes and no. Depends what you are doing currently and what your end game is as you can see from these benchmarks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UgqUSG2cD0




I have a FX-8350 (OC'd at 4.2 ghz) paired with a GTX 980 in my secondry machine. It's decent budget CPU for general desktop gaming at 60 FPS and honestly, if you just need something capable I'd say stick with it unless you want to upgrade your GPU (which after the 9xx series it will hideously bottleneck).

At the end of the day it's a CPU from 2012 that, at the time of release, under performed compared to it's intel counter parts but was cheap enough to be a valid alternative for some people.

These days however the markets getting more demanding.

If you want VR, Multi monitor set ups etc etc then the FX-8350 struggles. The Ryzen chipset might have slower clockspeeds but thanks to them having more threads do a much better job than the older FX-8350.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-1700X-vs-AMD-FX-8350/3915vs1489


So...it's very subjective on the upgrading side and comes down to what you need.

I did upgrade. I built a whole new PC a few years ago because whilst the FX-8350 was capable (just) of doing VR, it wasnt great for VR. It chugged and bottlenecked certain perfomance apects. If not for the VR aspect though and I was just desktop gaming, I'd be sticking with it for a while longer so...your call. No point replacing it if you dont need to.

[donkeypuffy]

Thanks for the responses. The information is very much appreciated.

Indeed of course it's extremelyt subjective. I have no interest in VR or high-end gaming. Computation / simulation running up to 4 concurrent threads mainly.

[upcoast]

A lot depends on your gpu and individual games as well as your perception of playable and what res.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NESy_FDV9Lk

I personally haven't run into any of my games having any problems with the FX8350/GTX1070 ya sure it's not an 8700k but it sure gets close to or most times way over 60fps maxed.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1623300805

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1608738974

RoTR GTX1070 ^

Like I said it depends on your GPU if it's got what it takes ^.

Ps, If I was to upgrade I'd be eying the up coming Ryzen 3xxx 6c/12 or 8c/16t

[Bad 💀 Motha]

8350 whatever the clock, is only on-par with i7 3770 at its very best. So hmm yea it's crap

[Randy Marsh]

I suggest waiting for Ryzen 3000 CPU Series this mid year. Spring/Summer it will be coming out.

That alleged leak also contained pricing information which painted the Ryzen 3000 series as being comparable on the cost to the Ryzen 2000 series. Entry level CPUs would cost between $100 and $130, with the mid-range stretching between $180 and $330. The absolute top of the line chips is said to cost $450 and $500.

If you can save a bit of money, it’s worth it.