04-01-2016, 06:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-01-2016, 06:34 AM by RolloTheGreat.)
(04-01-2016, 06:07 AM)SickBeast Wrote: Greg is correct in stating that the Phenom II was the last real CPU AMD made. The CPU in this thread is nothing more than a glorified dual core. 4 Bulldozer/Steamroller/Excavator cores are not real cores. Each core does not have its own FPU. So at best you could consider this CPU a triple core and even that is a stretch.
I am quite surprised to see it do as well as it does in games. For $90 I would much rather have a Pentium G3258, personally. That way you have a decent upgrade path as well. CPUs like this are not good for serious gaming though and they are only going to get way worse over time.
Greg is
stating that Phenom II was the last real CPU AMD made, the fact that they went a different direction with shared resources between cores is irrelevant.What's relevant is their current CPUs are faster than Phenom IIs. The cheesy chip Hardware Canucks reviewed is besides the point.