AMD has lost their marbles!

[BenSkywalker]

It will definitely have more impact than Bulldozer, if they have even achieved parity (or close to it) I'd say their engineers are to be commended.

I'd say it's more damnation on the part of Intel for sleeping at the wheel for so long, but I'll say if every rumor we have seen is true, it looks like a pretty epic fail for AMD being spun very favorably. Really, the numbers we are seeing thrown around indicate that the top of their line is going to be roughly on par with an i5 in everything outside of Cinebench for twice the money- I'm using their PR BS numbers- how is this good? 

Can you seriously tell me you prefer a world where you have no reason to consider anything but intel or NVIDIA?

nVidia's biggest competition is, and has been for a while now, the parts they have already sold. They need to give us all a reason to upgrade. A lot of people like to make it out like it's a real competition, but we know it isn't. My wife needs to keep a tab on me whenever I build a new rig, I'll just drop $10K for nominal differences, and she know how to read benchmark charts, but she doesn't bat an eye at paying an extra $100 for nVidia- in fact she would be considered far more of a fanboy then me but not because she likes nVidia, it's because she *hates* how shitty AMD video cards are(their drivers really, but she isn't that much of a geek). That is a reputation AMD built for themselves with shitty work over many, many years. Hell, even now, we see DX12 showing huge gains on AMD hardware almost exclusively because of how insanely shitty their DX11 drivers are, and people talk about this like it showed how 'forward thinking' AMD was, I mean, really?

Why the side tangent? You are absolutely right that I want to see competition. But that isn't what we have been seeing for a long ass time now, we have been seeing apologists and spin doctors trying to spin the shit AMD puts out as competitive when it just isn't. Then you add their type of viral marketing, it makes my blood boil. Look, you and Keys used to talk up nV's offerings, I got that, and if that was their approach then I'd have no issue with it. But you know better then pretty much everyone AMD has had an active campaign to destroy tech forums by silencing any dissenting voices from their marketing spin.

Now, do I want competition in the industry, yes.

Do I want to pretend the winner of the Special Olympics is really going toe to toe with Usain Bolt while he is assaulting fans and burning down sports bars?

My first computer was the Commodore C64

Apple ][ and TRS 80 were the computers I had before the C64 launched, whipper snapper