Your article shows that the difference between the i5 2500k is unnoticeable, and in most of the tests the difference compared to the i7 was also almost unnoticeable.... not to mention these tests were run on SLI/Crossfire at 1440 and I'll be playing on 1080 on one card (in which those test results the FPS across CPUs were almost the same).... I think these tests are proving my point?
This is a quote from the link you posted
"Moving to dual GTX 580s, and while the split gets bigger, processors like the i3-3225 are starting to lag behind. The difference between the best AMD and best Intel processor is only 2 FPS though, nothing to write home about.
DiRT 3 conclusion
Much like Metro 2033, DiRT 3 has a GPU barrier and until you hit that mark, the choice of CPU makes no real difference at all. "
This link was supporting my argument, I was under the assumption you didn't agree with my argument....
This link covers FPS and frame time on 1080p crysis 3, and the FX performed almost identical to the i7... http://techreport.com/review/24879/intel...reviewed/9
"Most of the time cpu load is very low and the bottleneck is on the gpu side." Which means the cpu isn't really all that important.
I concede, it seems as though Intel CPUs are in fact faster, but most of the time, unnoticeably faster when being used in real world conditions.
This is a quote from the link you posted
"Moving to dual GTX 580s, and while the split gets bigger, processors like the i3-3225 are starting to lag behind. The difference between the best AMD and best Intel processor is only 2 FPS though, nothing to write home about.
DiRT 3 conclusion
Much like Metro 2033, DiRT 3 has a GPU barrier and until you hit that mark, the choice of CPU makes no real difference at all. "
This link was supporting my argument, I was under the assumption you didn't agree with my argument....
This link covers FPS and frame time on 1080p crysis 3, and the FX performed almost identical to the i7... http://techreport.com/review/24879/intel...reviewed/9
"Most of the time cpu load is very low and the bottleneck is on the gpu side." Which means the cpu isn't really all that important.
I concede, it seems as though Intel CPUs are in fact faster, but most of the time, unnoticeably faster when being used in real world conditions.