Gaming on Intel or AMD...The truth

The Joker

The Joker

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Ok so as you guys know I am into the hardware scene. Love everything tech related :love:
But for a few years now I've been getting pissed off with people claiming they can tell the difference between Intel and AMD while gaming and that Intel is def better. Now I am sorry but I own a i7 3930K, i7 3770K and 2x AMD FX8350 machines. I game on all of them and I usually share cards between them (7970 Matrix, 680, Titan, 7870 cf, 660ti sli). I can not tell the difference between them. They only time I see a difference is when I benchmark or while running fraps.

The machines will be running the exact same hardware, only the board and cpu will differ.
Games will be set up to run the exact same settings.

So my plan is to do a blind game play test on some mates and possibly some of you guys if your keen :)

The idea is to let my mates play on each machine, machines will be hidden and they won't be able to see system specs.
After letting them play on the 4 machines they then have to tell me which machine they were playing on (Intel or Amd). I want a fairly large group, ranging from seasoned hardware nuts like myself to people that really don't care what they play on.

What do you guys think?
 
Good experiment to prove a point. I'm like you, love tech and building and I love AMD and Intel...for different things. AMD is just the best for gaming because you won't see a difference in gaming but only on gaming. Thats why I choose Intel:) I think i'm gonna get a 4770K.
 
rootworm41 said:
Good experiment to prove a point. I'm like you, love tech and building and I love AMD and Intel...for different things. AMD is just the best for gaming because you won't see a difference in gaming but only on gaming. Thats why I choose Intel:) I think i'm gonna get a 4770K.
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That was confusing even for me:D
 
This sounds like an awesome little experiment :D

Personally, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between anything, but I look forward to your findings.
 
I would love to but you are not in Cape Town esp if we can take a mach home if we guess correctly :p
 
The Joker said:
Ok so as you guys know I am into the hardware scene. Love everything tech related :love:
But for a few years now I've been getting pissed off with people claiming they can tell the difference between Intel and AMD while gaming and that Intel is def better. Now I am sorry but I own a i7 3930K, i7 3770K and 2x AMD FX8350 machines. I game on all of them and I usually share cards between them (7970 Matrix, 680, Titan, 7870 cf, 660ti sli). I can not tell the difference between them. They only time I see a difference is when I benchmark or while running fraps.

The machines will be running the exact same hardware, only the board and cpu will differ.
Games will be set up to run the exact same settings.

So my plan is to do a blind game play test on some mates and possibly some of you guys if your keen :)

The idea is to let my mates play on each machine, machines will be hidden and they won't be able to see system specs.
After letting them play on the 4 machines they then have to tell me which machine they were playing on (Intel or Amd). I want a fairly large group, ranging from seasoned hardware nuts like myself to people that really don't care what they play on.

What do you guys think?
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Make sure to use a CPU heavy game, my recommendation is PlanetSide 2 since I found the game to give the biggest discrepancies between Intel and AMD.
 
I'm not sure that this will have a great value if you're using top end GPUs like Titans or 7990s, where the difference in FPS between CPUs is in the imperceptible range: a 10fps difference between 70 - 80 won't affect many people. If you were to use a more mid-range GPU like a single 660ti on the machines you'd see the performance gaps (if there were any, I'm not saying there are enormous differences) in a fairer way.

Still nice idea :D
 
jasong said:
I'm not sure that this will have a great value if you're using top end GPUs like Titans or 7990s, where the difference in FPS between CPUs is in the imperceptible range: a 10fps difference between 70 - 80 won't affect many people. If you were to use a more mid-range GPU like a single 660ti on the machines you'd see the performance gaps (if there were any, I'm not saying there are enormous differences) in a fairer way.

Still nice idea :D
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Will look into that, I do get what your getting at though.
@Isengard, will try games like SC2 and Dota 2 which are both pretty cpu intensive. Will look into Planetside 2 as well.
 
The Joker said:
Will look into that, I do get what your getting at though.
@Isengard, will try games like SC2 and Dota 2 which are both pretty cpu intensive. Will look into Planetside 2 as well.
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If you had Guild Wars 2 it would also show quite a difference. My FPS more than doubled when I went from my Phenom II x4 965 to the i5 3570k.
 
The Joker said:
Will look into that, I do get what your getting at though.
@Isengard, will try games like SC2 and Dota 2 which are both pretty cpu intensive. Will look into Planetside 2 as well.
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I would recommend not showing the current fps either, because people will see a game running at 50 fps then the same game at 70 fps and say, the latter is a intel or AMD.
 
Sounds like a fun idea. I assume you'll keep the same number of cores in each CPU? I'm sure all threading is not created equal.. :/
 
Haha this sounds awesome. When is this planned for? I'd like to see the outcome, already guessed what it would be. :)
 
jasong said:
Is that really a good idea? Then all you're proving is that most gamers don't notice a difference between 40 and 50fps.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/697?vs=701

Truthfully there is quite a difference in gaming between AMD and Intel at the high end.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/6985/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-at-1440p-adding-in-haswell-/5

The above mentioned article is the reason I am doing the test. Some people still claim that intel is better for gaming bla bla.

Well this is how its going down.
The cpu's will be run at stock clocks with HT and all cores/modules active.
Each machine will be running the same memory (G.skill DDRIII 2400 16GB at its rated speed)
They will be running the same SSD's (OCZ Vector 128GB)
I will not be showing any fps numbers during the test, I want it to be a "blind" test

If you guys can think of anything that needs to be added or changed please let me know.
 
Stick a FX-6300/FX-6100 in there and that would be an interesting test. No Crossfire or SLI, though. We wouldn't want Nvidia's frame metering tech to smooth out the frame delivery while Xfire with VSync disabled is almost a complete mess.
 
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