08-21-2015, 04:54 PM
(08-21-2015, 09:32 AM)gstanford Wrote: I thought it was actually 3rd best unless they have somehow managed to outperform their old 6 core Phenom II's.
Vishera trumps the 6 cores.
The point is what AMD does is world class work, only one company beats them. As such, they're smarter guys than us, and most people.
But, they're not the best, so they get the "moar corez" jokes.
It's all money. When you have the most cash, you can hire the brightest guys, give them the best tools, most staff. When you don't have the cash you get the guys with the second best ideas, cut corners with computer modelling, and put moar corez on your chip because there has to be some differentiating factor for your product. (even if it doesn't really matter)