AMD has lost their marbles!

[RolloTheGreat]

Well, I won't be getting any Zen AMD CPU's.

Intel i7's are cheap enough and perform well enough.  Not to mention they have a far superior motherboard chipset that isn't based off of whatever scraps they could manage to license from ASMEDIA.

I don't care how well AMD engineered Zen, all it takes is for someone to compile their application with ICC (the intel compiler) and AMD's performance is shot to hell thanks to the compiler baking slow code paths in for non intel CPU's.

and if you don't have single thread performance down pat then you have nothing so far as games are concerned.

So you're saying games will be coded to run worse on AMD....when AMD has the MS and Sony consoles?



Riiigghhtt. And I've been shopping for a Yaris too!

Or are you talking production apps? Well, that will always have some faster, some slower based on brand, but I'll wait to see the differences rather than just throwing out FUD like you, SB, Amoppin'.