Nvidia Threatens to Become A Monopoly

[RolloTheGreat]

Rollo Intel dedicates more die area to their iGPU than they do to the CPU portion.  It would be very simple for them to give us unlocked 8 core CPUs with no GPU for enthusiasts at the same price as the current K-series i5s.  Why don't they do it?  Because they are competing with themselves at this point.  If AMD had something more powerful then Intel would be forced to do something like this.

Again, you're thinking like a hobbyist who wants toys, not a business.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/

Between 6 and 8 core cpus you're talking about less than 2% of the market. Know why intel isn't selling 8 core cpus? Nobody buys more than 4 cores. 8 core CPUs probably have higher bad chip rates, and perhaps lower profit margins.

You're lucky I don't run intel, personally I think they're too generous selling unlocked CPUs. I'd lock them all build in overvolt reporting for returns.

For my part, I will NEVER get suckered into AMD advice like "The future is moar corez!" again. Threw away $1000 on that hex core chip and a $200 2500K is just as fast at anything I do.

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Well, i7-990X isn't the equivalent of a 4790K, but that's beside the point, as Intel has made the $1,000 price point a tradition, not a price gouging.

I guess my point was the Devils Canyon totally walks all over the 990X for $300, four years later. There has been a good performance gain over those 4 years, uses a ton less power, the price is only $300. What's not to love?

I think people got spoiled in the early days of pc gaming by frequent large gains, and now chip engineers are running into limits of current technology.