Dartz Wrote:Which is a shame because the new Kaveri series definitely deserve better than being relegated to the bargain bin. For such a cheap part, it's more than exceeded my expectations as to its capability. It's definitely something to look at if you're on a tight budget. And if the OpenCL API becomes more common, it could be a force to be reckoned with.
The problem is that AMD had some bad breaks and intel managed to outpace them again, so the high end chips... AMD just can;t come close to touching intel there, and intel is half a manufactering node ahead basicly, meaning that for a lot of the big enterprise systems which are very sensitive to power useage Intel again dominates. This has caused intel to slowly push up prices again, but AMD still has it's traditional stronghold of the budget market, and if you are looking to max performance per $ then AMD can't be beat.
AMD also takes great pains to keep the chip slot the same for longer, meaning you can more easily and cheaply upgrade AMD based machines, so if you are on a tight budget AMD is better unless the computer is going ot be runnign 24/7 in which case powerdraw becomes a significant concern in total cost. My last few machines where all AMD cpu based, but my latest machine is an intel one just because AMD can't keep up at the high end for now.
We'll see in 2-3 years if their decision to remove the hand-optimization of chip design and instead rely on computers was right or not, it has a lot of advantages, but particularly the early cores after the switchover suffered. And they will get a bit less performance per chip, how much is disputed... but it removes the most expensive part of chip desing basicly, and allows for much much faster iterations.
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B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."