The Best Cpu For The Money Amd Vs Intel Budget Shootout Memory Bandwidth Performance

It’s no secret that the AMD FX series lacks the firepower of Intel’s solutions when it comes to memory bandwidth. Even the Core i3-4360 has a little over 20% more memory bandwidth at its disposal than the FX-8320E. Overclocking the FX-8320E didn’t help either, which we admit to being a little surprised about. Comparing the FX-8320E to the slightly more expensive Core i5-4430 seems like an unfair fight as the Intel processor boasts a 65% memory bandwidth advantage reaching 29GB/s.

The AMD FX-8320E also seems woefully inadequate when measuring L2 and L3 cache performance, falling well behind the Core i3-4360, particularly when comparing L1 cache performance. Overclocking the FX-8320E helped a lot, putting its L2 performance almost on par with the Core i5-4430, though its L1 performance was still only able to match the Core i3.