When Zen releases, should upgrade my 8350 (clocked to 5Ghz) to a mid-high tier Zen equivalent CPU, or buy a second R9 Fury Nitro? I know that the 8350's architecture is quite old, but is there a possibility of new api's using more cores substantially unlocking more performance in the 8350? I know my current pairing of a 8350 and a Fury might seem strange, but I have been consistently upgrading my build since 2012, so the 8350 was bought a while ago, whereas the Fury was bought about 2 months ago.
I am simply trying to find out if I will have better gaming performance with two R9 Fury's paired with a overclocked 8350, or a single Fury paired with a fancy Zen chip.
My budget with the Zen CPU would be about $300-400 due to me also having to buy new ram, mobo, etc. (trying to keep my next upgrade under $600)
Please ask any questions regarding budget, current build etc.
I have a "normal" Sapphire Fury and it is overkill for single monitor 1080p. I guess waiting for Zen is a good idea as your setup is equal to mine, except I run a 8320 at 4.2GHz.
What resolution are you gaming at? 4K is within reach but our current GPU's are not yet there to drive 4K without hassle, but if you are still on 1080P or triple 1080P, you should still be fine. Honestly though, even the 5960X can become a bottleneck if you don't have the CPU horse power to have enough draw calls to the GPU's. I would advise against dual GPU configs though in any case scenario.
I would either wait for Zen or hop onto x99 and perhaps wait for Broadwell-E.
Dual Fury´s with a FX8350 for 1080p? Well i dont realy think that would be worth it, depending on what games you play. I would firstly try with a single Fury at 2660x1080p and see how it performs.
i want to move to Intel i really do. but...i am waiting out for Zen for a couple reasons. One i wanna see how it does. Two Intel is to damn expensive for me right now
Considering my single fury runs 4k at high/medium for most games I really dont think you need another one for 1080p (especially since crossfire/SLI seems to rarely bring good returns)
I'm currently using a 980ti on triple Asus VS228H-P 1080p. It's completely overkill, IMO. I only got the 980ti because i don't like my 390X. Heat output. Won't go off topic.
A single fury is overkill for 1080p, aswell. Stick to the single card, and upgrade the CPU when it starts lagging behind. IMO, a FX 8 core @5ghz is great for what you're doing. I wouldn't touch a thing.
Zen. Seriously. 2x Fury for 2560x1080 just screams overkill and the scaling would be baaaad. And your FX-8350 would be a hinderance unless you OC'd it balls to the wall.
+28% on 1080p, +47-49% on 1440p. 2560x1080 being closer to 1080p.. So the scaling with couple of R9 Fury's on 2560x1080 would be somewhere around the 35-40% mark. But those results are with a [email protected] which walks over the FX chip even if the FX would be OC'd to 5Ghz.......
CPU upgrade without a doubt... dualr furys with an 8350 is just looking for a bad time, especially at that resolution, it would be pointless and scaling would be terrible.
Yeah Zen is the way to go. As someone who pretty much always has at least one multi gpu machine in my machine harem, I never recommend buying a second card unless you have a monitor setup that could actually take advantage of it and your cpu has no chance of holding it back.