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Originally Posted by twitchyzero

not too hard to google benchmarks

ivy bridge has a healthy lead over piledriver/vishera as expected
AnandTech - The Vishera Review: AMD FX-8350, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300 Tested

Ivy Bridge doesn't have a 'healthy lead' over FX processors. In most cases, the FX is faster, except in high FPU low threaded applications.

Power consumption is another story