(01-26-2014, 02:35 AM)pauldacheez Wrote: >ever expecting an AMD CPU/APU to run The Last Story at full speed
We all recommend Intel CPUs here for the reasons admin89 mentioned. AMD's way behind the curve right now in terms of single/lightly-threaded perf – I hope they use some of their massive profits from the PS4/Xbox One CPU/GPU to fix that perf deficit.
Ive come to learn that even though its a good thing AMD has contracts with MS/Sony on those consoles, they don't get a ton of money off it.
They have however managed to pull of some profits in recently, finally.
Also to the OP: AMD is far behind on light/single-threaded performance, like everyone else said, but their desktop CPUs such as the 8350 work very well in multithreaded programs (video editing, compiling, compression/encryption, 3D modeling/rendering of said models (youll need a decent GPU with that), etc). So basically, its good at the stuff that consumers normally wouldn't do/ good with games that take advantage of more threads. Emulators such as Dolphin simply can't use more than 2 or 3 cores in a CPU without doing my harm than good to performance.