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Originally Posted by Neuromancer
Its okay Shannon AMD bashing is allowed, we aint some Nazi site. I am a HUGE AMD proponent though so if I get fiesty and rip your asshole, just tell me to calm down 
lol
I do agree with the per clock comments in all honesty, Intel excels at 16bit instructions, AMD cant match it. Superpi, pifast, Wprime, even some "modern" benchmarks still use 16bit instructions. But SOOO many apps people use are still old code.
Intel has absorbed the same thing that AMD has known for a while.. GPU processing make CPU better. problem is, gpu processing still sucks by and large. Except in specific tasks can parallel processing be used. there is a reason CPUs and different than GPUs. GPUs suck at doing multiple things. Whats the new word for it? Out of Order processing?
AMD makes a damn fine setup for your money. Gotta remember that except for some flagship stuff and some overpriced stuff, you can get a pretty feature packed motherboard for about half what the intel version costs. Oh, and you got SLI licensing on AMD now too.. so that argument is out hte window.
FYI.. AVX is meh... At 1080p to 720P AVX was 20% faster than CPU only handbrake encoding. Of course handbrake made a file half the size. When it came to 1080P to Ipod, handbrake was 20% faster and was 20% larger filesize. Hmmm
FYI: The thuban 6 core is slower than a 2600K in many multi threaded tests. Still faster than a 2500K. |
Thanks dude,
And like I said I have always felt that in gaming for some reason AMD has always been smoother... but then again we are on Overclockaholics here, and honestly we overclock and run benchmarks... (recently I tend to game alot too) but all in all I was hoping for something taht would match or possibly beat at least what was out now especially being 8 physical cores instead of 4 hyperthreaded ones.
hell I was a HUGE AMd porponent when I had my older FX chips but after trhat they kinda faded in my eyes as efficiency gre with intel and AMD for some reason didnt follow suit...
btw LOL @ the GPU out of order processing :p