With synthetic benchmarks out of the way, it was time to see what the FX-8350 brought to the table over the FX-8150 for gaming. All of these games were set to 1920×1080, given the portion of the market this CPU is geared too, this should be the more predominant resolution used. Additionally, the highest settings were always chosen for each title.
Dirt 3:
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Here we see about a 5% gain over the FX-8150, not great to be honest. I almost believe there is a bottleneck somewhere else in the system that may be playing a role here.
Dishonored:
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With Dishonored, it was pretty apparent that the CPU was the bottleneck (even thou we are splitting hairs given the FPS rates we are seeing in this game)
Batman: Arkham City
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It was interesting to see virtually no difference between the stock clocked FX CPUs here. It wasn’t until the OC that we saw a noticeable bump to the FPS.
Guildwars 2:
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Here we see a nice trending bump to FPS with each configuration. Nice tangible gains are achieved that take us from sub-optimal to “very” acceptable FPS.
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