In most applications the 4670K will not just win, but win by a very large margin. Even in applications that use all 8 cores the 4670K is usually faster. So even if a miracle happens and tomorrow every application is suddenly able to utilize 8 cores simultaneously and effectively you still don't have much to worry about.
But realistically there are many types of applications for which that extent of multithreading would either be useless, impractical, or impossible to implement. And for many applications that are able to effectively use that many cores (there aren't many that fall into this category at the moment) many of those scale so poorly past 4 cores that 4 faster cores are easily able to keep up with 8 slower cores. As we have seen repeatedly in benchmarks and reviews. The FX may have more cores but that's just one piece of the puzzle. CPUs have many different specs. that contribute to their overall performance and efficiency. And the 4670K is still objectively the better cpu out of the two. That's why it's priced higher. AMD knows it's better. Otherwise they would try to price the FX 8320 higher.
Intel will move to 8 core cpus when software devs make the move. Right now they're more concerned about optimizing their architecture around the applications that customers are using their cpus for now, not what people might be using in the future.
But realistically there are many types of applications for which that extent of multithreading would either be useless, impractical, or impossible to implement. And for many applications that are able to effectively use that many cores (there aren't many that fall into this category at the moment) many of those scale so poorly past 4 cores that 4 faster cores are easily able to keep up with 8 slower cores. As we have seen repeatedly in benchmarks and reviews. The FX may have more cores but that's just one piece of the puzzle. CPUs have many different specs. that contribute to their overall performance and efficiency. And the 4670K is still objectively the better cpu out of the two. That's why it's priced higher. AMD knows it's better. Otherwise they would try to price the FX 8320 higher.
Intel will move to 8 core cpus when software devs make the move. Right now they're more concerned about optimizing their architecture around the applications that customers are using their cpus for now, not what people might be using in the future.
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-Ron Swanson
"I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. "
-Mark Antony