AMD's FX CPUs- Why They're BAD

An explanation of why AMD's previous generation of CPUs is flawed on a fundamental level. And why the future is bright for AMD!

[Dolmo]

Impressive video. A lot of good insight!

[HankWank]

I use my own CPU created out of 100 hamsters running on 100 hamster wheels, executing a total 12 instructions per second.

[ronch]

Bulldozer is a fundamentally narrow architecture as far as one thread is concerned. It's actually narrower than K10. Nonetheless I find it to be a very interesting core design. I've had my FX-8350 since December '12 and I've been very happy with it. It's not perfect by any means but it gets the job done. I guess my interest in the design makes me forgive its shortcomings.

[allenqueen]

from the future, Zen kicks Intel ass
not as much in gaming, but in all other things..gaming is very close too.Ryzen has killed Intel's non-K cpus

[marcd]

Bulldozer is the equivalent to Intels NetBurst. They both required high clockspeeds to perform well, produced large amounts of heat in doing so.

[wintermintleaf]

I use an 8350 and it fulfills everything I do on a daily basis without issue. No CPU is bad, you're not going to get the latest i7 CPU for your retro MS-DOS gaming rig, are you? You get maybe an old Pentium or something and the amount of RAM that was good for that time.

[warrenzevonsangryghost]

I think the real story here is AMD's release of the FX series in 1911. Seriously ahead of their time. ;)

[sternwayprovider]

WAIT! I saw ur name on one of 2Klikphilips leaderboards in destruction Darius! Im just going to guess u r actually the one since both of ur channels are kind of hardware oriented. That is so cool :)

[graydon]

Hello I am from the future and AMD's Ryzen line is whooping Intel's ass because of Ryzen's price to performance ratio.

[BenieTheDragon]

What kills me, is my 4350 has a higher stock clock speed than the Ryzen 5's. Yet I'm reminded the Ryzen 5's are also made better (that clock speed doesn't matter).
I was raised up when it did matter.

[seemeslegit]

Here in september .. the ryzens are out

[fallenshaw]

He says AMD is so inferior, but I don't think a single Intel processor has outlived the fx8350 in the gameing world yet. Be a Intel fanboy if you want but that cpu is a beast still playing gamers at a stable 60-100fps 6 and a half years after launch. Also it's very easy and safe to overclock it to 4.6ghz. If AMD had threw hyper threading on the dam thing Intel would of lost the entire market.
Hell the sole factor that limited its preformance the most was, no hyper threads, and 2ndly Direct X only allowing upto 4 cores tobe used. Now with Direct X12 Its actually better in games than back in 2012.

That being said it prob only has about 1 or 2 competitve years left in it, prob 3 to 5 left still in Casual players systems at which point they'll be at low to med settings then. As long as you take care of it its still a solid choice to stick with if your currently using one. As to upgrade even down the AMDs side would cost a fuck ton, new ram, new motherboard....ect.... Maybe even need new powersupply. Intel wouldn't be any cheaper.

Thing about AMD is they will run neck and neck with Intel most of the time, and if you have kept up your system propery to keep the heat down, and using the right power supply needed. Then It should stay in pace with the cpu's that cost triple if not 5x more. The Fact is, if amd can sell the same qualitity which they do now. Then that proves Intel is overcharging their customers. Because it can't take that much more to produce their cpus than it does amd.

[krenzzie]

Oh boy how much things have changed since 2017

[Tomekkkk]

How do I know I'm mentally tough? I built a Bulldozer-based PC for... ArmA3. Which is itself the "Bulldozer of games" by itself, as far as optimization goes.

[shatterpointgames]

best explanation ever, now I can finally understand why intel used to beat amd so much, and why amd was able to make such a big comeback recently

[WarsunGames]

There is so much wrong with this video. You compared performance on low resolutions where people would not normally run. You compared Nvidia Optimized games as standard. You compare Skyrim Yet Skyrim has a locked frame rate of 60fps. An when Bethesda saw The Intel chips bypassing this performance they had to update it an called it FAKE frames.

The frames where not real frames of performance but white noise coming from the chip an being mistaken as frames per second.Which range from 15 to 25 additional fake frames.Putting the Intel processors equal to BELOW AMD performance.

[Oreoezi]

FX CPUs are not bad, The performance stacks better now with more cores than at that time and it is actually a great investment, I am using an FX-8350 rn and won't regret my decision, the only problems I was facing was thermals that I fixed after adding 4 case fans and a water cooler xD

[blakedmcRaveHD]

would it be good for Windows XP Retro Gaming projects? because i planned on doin' it to my FX 8350 since i'm no longer using it for modern day uses thank goodness

[youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

Was and continues to be reasonably priced? DUDE the 9590-or was it the 8370?- was like 800$ at launch...
Shit is worse than a new i3! haha.
(im a previous FX owner)

[tunkunrunk]

if AMD FX CPUs were so bad, why are they still expensive, even refurbished?