[BenchZowner]

What they said, and will supposedly be doing is not FOCUS into high performance desktop CPUs.
As in, they'll still release new chips, etc, but won't be the product of a "huge effort" in order to tie or surpass Intel.

In other words, expect BD v2, BD v3 ( with both being significantly slower than the new Intel CPUs that will come ).

[ShrimpBrime]

Originally Posted by BenchZowner

What they said, and will supposedly be doing is not FOCUS into high performance desktop CPUs.
As in, they'll still release new chips, etc, but won't be the product of a "huge effort" in order to tie or surpass Intel.

In other words, expect BD v2, BD v3 ( with both being significantly slower than the new Intel CPUs that will come ).

They won't be as fast as people want. It's got less transisters per x86 core. Simple as that.

The 8170 released Q1 (supposedly) will be Octo with 3.9ghz clock and 4.5ghz Turbo and probably do 5ghz or better daily for extremists. I believe the new stepping will be C0 and should be a better all around cpu.

If AMD found a way for the actual module to act as a single core, it would be a fast cpu.