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Last edited by torsionbar28; 18 March 2017, 12:37 PM.
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Originally posted by Slartifartblast View PostWe'll see. Also we'll see Intel's response in due course, remember their last response to AMD the C2D then sandy bridge which blew AMD away. I'm all for this competition and more performance per watt per $, £ or €.
At the time (~2004), the P4's were really power hungry and ran super hot. The Athlon64 was the superior choice, and not just because it was 64 bit while the competing P4 was not. Intel customers had been asking for several years for something that could match AMD's performance, and at a lower TDP. There was speculation for many months that intel would scale their laptop Pentium-M chip up into a desktop part, effectively throwing the stale old NetBurst architecture out the window. And that's exactly what they did. Prior to the official Core Duo launch in 2006, there were even hacks out there for running a Pentium-M laptop CPU in a desktop mobo - that's how much demand there was for a NetBurst replacement. C2D came along the following year, which finally added AMD's 64 bit extensions, making the intel chips "AMD compatible", and the rest is history.
Sorry, but intel's got nothing this time around - which is fine, since their current lineup is OK, not terrible like it was in 2004. But intel also doesn't have any other AMD-beating parts they can easily bring to market like they did back then. About all they can do is cut prices to stay competitive with AMD. But hey, that's a win-win no matter which chip you go with.Last edited by torsionbar28; 18 March 2017, 12:48 PM.
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostWell, obviously compiling programs is one thing that benefits from multiple cores and us devs stand to gain from that. When I said my quad core is rarely maxxed out I was more referring to the fact that most of the time I'm doing something other than compiling
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Originally posted by vein View PostWell, that is you... My skylake i7 is utilized to the maximum all the time and i am forced to take unwanted coffee breaks pretty often... This happen when you compile code...
Originally posted by bug77 View PostAnd at work, lengthy compile times are the perfect excuse for a coffee break
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostWaiting for compiles is not really this much fun, so a fast multicore CPU is still a good idea...
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LOL - pcgameshardware.de was running some tests on simulated R5 Ryzen (by disabling cores), found that AOTS ran a lot faster (matching 7700K), and on further investigation found that the game reduced the graphics level when running on 4 cores or less. That's why all the 6 and 8 core CPUs were running slower:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment...ed_aots_turns/Test signature
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Originally posted by dungeon View PostWhy they still simulating it... as i see ony youtube several reviewers got their R5 samples and did unboxing videos already.
Finally, there is typically an embargo period where reviewers are allowed to say things like "see the shiny thing I have" but not "here is how fast it goes". Even "see the shiny thing I have" comments are probably in a grey area.Test signature
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