Nvidia Threatens to Become A Monopoly

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I just find the 10% gains each year quite pathetic.

Feel free to design and manufacture your own CPU that does better.  Hint - ripping out the iGPU and replacing it with 4 more cores software will barely use won't get you there - it will worsen performance for some cases like video encoding that can utilize QuickSync.

Reposted for obvious truth.

AMD was horribly, tragically wrong about "moar corez" being the path forward. For most things computer gaming related, IPC >>> cores in a big way.

Observe the beat down a 3GHz 4 core 2500K gives AMDs 8 core, 5GHz, 8b Watt monstrosity:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/har...-5ghz.html

I'm not saying more cores just for the sake of it. Of course more IPC would be better, it just seems as though they have really hit the wall. If they get 10% more each year they are doing well.

I just think that it would be great for us to have affordable 6 and 8 core Intel CPUs. With proper competition from AMD we would have this. It would instantly double how much computing power we have in our rigs.

Do you not agree that quad core entry level processors would be amazing?

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I just find the 10% gains each year quite pathetic.

Feel free to design and manufacture your own CPU that does better.  Hint - ripping out the iGPU and replacing it with 4 more cores software will barely use won't get you there - it will worsen performance for some cases like video encoding that can utilize QuickSync.

Ok, then how about making their low end CPUs unlocked quad cores...

Again, with proper competition, that is what we would have by now.

Budget products are always stripped back no matter what industry you are in or there would be no reason for consumers to consider purchasing the middle and highend products.

KIA should start rebadging Mercedes Benz vehicles and sell them at current KIA price points too......  

Yes, well, we have been stuck with crappy dual core entry level CPUs for years and years now. IMO it's about time that we had quad cores at the entry level with the enthusiast parts having 8 cores or maybe even more.