03-13-2015, 06:33 AM
(03-13-2015, 05:56 AM)SickBeast Wrote: How would an octa core intel chip be anything like AMD? It would be 4 times more powerful than anything AMD makes. You're really dense. You still don't get it.
No, you didn't get it.
"If AMD offered something faster than their quad cores, then they would be forced to offer cheap hexa and octa cores."
You stipulated AMD is making faster chips than intel, forcing them to offer cheap hex/octa core CPUs. Just like AMD does now, and in second place just like AMD is now. See what I did there now?
(03-13-2015, 05:56 AM)SickBeast Wrote: If you call what we have from intel today "progress" then you are blind. The 2500k came out over 4 years ago now. Haswell quad cores are barely any faster. Yes, they are lower power, but most enthusiasts don't care much about that. 10% performance gains each generation are not progress IMO.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8227/devil...i5-4690k/4
Looks to me like the 4790K totally annihilates the 2500K on graphics, maybe intel has been focusing on power and their IGPs because they realize their CPU cores needed less work?
And 20% over 4 years isn't a very big gain compared to what? Other x86 cpu manufacturers?
And again, you shouldn't post conjecture as fact. You, or I, have no idea what intel "could" do. Might be if Beefdozer III stomps intel, they get stomped, caught with their pants down and they are behind for years until they can come up with something better.
Back in Athlon 64 days intel didn't just "pull out the better cpus they were holding back" when AMD made them look sad.
Your position is indefensible because all you have are guesses.