WOW MD! that's very detailly broken down.
TBH most the games I know they are mainly Intel/nVidia based I honestly never got the idea of why AMD bought out ATi in the first place. The only time I went AMD over Intel was back during the Athlon XP years, it was faster and got a little extra room to play with. But ever since the 775 Intel took off, it went up so fast they AMD really didn't have a chance.
After I got my first 775 setup I tried AMD again I promised myself I'd never go AMD again, it went from Project Blue to Project code name Pain in my (THE) ass couldn't sale that rig fast enough.
I have always felt that AMD have always been trying to come after Intel's ideas, remember the Netbook? Intel Atom chips? then years later they just came out with the AMD Neo most people don't even know that chip, because it was SO FUCKING SLOW! they completely down sized the chip so extremely slow it can't really run Vista. From what I remembered it was about the same speed as the 478 Pentium 4 mobile chip Centrino (first gen) then Intel went 479 which is still in most laptops that's got Core 2 based chips before them went 988 or 1388 what ever the hell those 1st gen Core i7/i5/i3's are.
Then the new Bulldozer happened......
They hit 8GHz like crazy gotta give them that!
Ain't gonna lie tho I'm really thinking about getting a set of those and just hit 8GHz then set that sum'bitch on fire and be done with it
(is there a AMD chip that's faster then Intel in anyway? I remember reading about Bushiller is faster then 2600k on mutimedia encoding or something)
IDK how much time I have left, but before I die I MUST HIT 8GHz!
Edit: at least once