cdawall
where the hell are my stars
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You're right but at anywhere from twice to five times the price of current FX 8 core chips the skylakes had better outperform them running the same amount of threads.
In fact the whole difference in performance is a performance per dollar thing. Both 2 core i3's with HT and 4 core i5's w/o HT run quite a bit faster than FXs at around the same pricepoint as the FX's on a clock for clock basis. However
the FX's pull away when multutasking simply because of more cores, this is true of both 6 core AMD's and 8 cores.
Now the 4 core i7's with HT do get close to matching the FX 8 cores clock for clock when running all threads but, and this is a big but they have a much higher pricepoint.
But then again AMD is it's own worst enemy here in a way because my $140 FX-8320 can easily be Overclocked to 4.7 Ghz stable on an 8 year old discontinued top down air cooler and match a $230 FX-9590 at it's stock speeds.
This coming from a guy with two 12 core opterons at 4.6. My 5820k can nearly equal every single thing the Opteron setup does with 1/4th the cores and half the threads. The skylake i5's are pissing on amd even multithreaded.