Geeze, this is looking more and more like a toss-up. I found some more benchmarks that show the i5-3570 to have 33% stronger single-thread performance over the FX-8350, yet the FX-8350's overall performance is 25% stronger. This suggests that the more threaded an application/game is, the better it will run on the FX-8350 over the i5-3570, which is to be expected, yet the less threaded the application/game is, the better it will run on the i5-3570 compared to the FX-8350.
I also just noticed something that could be very important. The FX-8350 has 8 MB of L2 cache. The i5-3570 only has 1 MB. :O
That... is an amazingly large difference between the two.
There's also something else to consider: Recording
The more multi-threaded the processor, the better the performance of a game will be while running recording programs at the same time.
...it's really hard making a decision between these two CPUs... but these extra considerations I noted just now could sway my decision on the CPU back over to the AMD side.
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