sunaiac wrote:I'm lost, were you talking about performance of the CPU or behaviour in game ?
The performance of the CPU obviously.
Take a GPU slow enough, and your CPU performance doesn't matter. Which says nothing about your CPU of course.
It's like testing tyres in a brake test, but braking from 0.001 kph.
sunaiac wrote:it's faster in high thread count applications.
Nope. Common misconception from people with no clue about CPUs and software. They think "moar threads == moar coars".
In many cases, the Core i5 2500 will perform as well, if not better than the FX8350 even in heavily multithreaded scenarios.
This is because you can run multiple threads on each core. Having fewer, but faster cores can still result in better performance.