This article reflects nowhere near the reality of this processors. Truth be told, I know have a nice 4790K coupled with a ASRock Z97M OC Formula motherboard, however, just before I had a system that had an AMD FX8350 with a motherboard ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 (Proof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgq7IAkcETo as this motherboard has issues with an R290x hence I made that video),
The processor was even undervolted and boost disabled in order to avoid throttling (because that motherboard was already on the limits
) yet, I can tell you that the processor has atleast 2/3 the power of the 4790K, I tested this with my own developed programs, as I'm working on vision.
I did indeed upgrade to the 4790K, but only because I needed raw performance per core, but 2/3 of this processor with the FX8350 it ain't bad even when I did not have boost...
Note however, I will complain about the motherboard selection for the FX8350, whereas the ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 did indeed the job, it had problems with newer GPUs like the R290x, since I also use OpenCL for vision, I needed something more upgrade-friendly, hence why I ended on the Z97 platform.
I could go to full ATX size, however I wanted an small computer, hence mATX, that's where a lot of manufacturers plain ignore AMD, which in my opinion, it is anticompetitive (max 4 phases in my previous motherboard whereas now I have 8 with the same form factor), and let us not talk about mini ATX...