>>>Agreeing with Craig: unless you have proof positive via measuring conversion process on two otherwise identical test machine to be one of the few cases to be better suited for AMD, go for Intel if you aim for highest perf.
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>>http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+FX-9590+Eight-Core&id=2014
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>>when you look at the breakdown in other links of the actual tests and not focusing on the video gaming graphics tests, for memory intensive programs, the Intel I7 3930k or AMD FX 9590 Eight Core are at the top.
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>Look who's here again!
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>http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
>will be the correct index to measure his (1/3 of time) vfp task. As he has a specific process for the rest, if that one process can utilize 8 cores, AMD might be in the running. Often that is not the case for single tasks, but general work spread out among cores can still be handled by AMD.

Hola! :)

But the AMD scores much lower on that test as well (tied with the Intel Core i5-3340 @ 3.10GHz ) than the Intel i7-4771 and both are 4 cores (2 logical ea). If purely performance is the key unless he is looking for bang for the buck.... :)