Outside of gaming, wasn't the 8350 a good chip for its time?

It's better for gaming now than it was back then.
Games these days use 4+ threads easily

a good boy cpu for tendie tiem

>>58667282
>it just sucked for anything requiring high IPC performance
ftfy

>>58667345
Genuine question. How would it differ? Wouldn't a core running at half the clock with double the frequency still perform the same amount of instructions?

it was not that good, even with solidworks, a 6500 feels faster (using it, not exporting) than an 8350
Of course the 6500 is in a brand new system but still it's supposed to be half the threads or something

>>58667339
The latency on the L3 caused microstuttering though.

>>58667371
>half the clock but double the frequency

>>58667390
Honestly my old 8350 felt faster than my current 4710HQ laptop and 6600 desktop.

I'm really disappointed in both Intel chips. My 480 is getting bottlenecked hard in BF1.

>>58667425
My apologies, I meant half the IPC.

>>58667440
Yeah, if the 8350 was double the frequency of its competitors sure (still a LOT of overhead making what you said not 100% true) but it's 4GHz, which now is almost normal consumer speeds