I anticipated AMD's release of their new release of their 8-core CPU, and was hoping for another great innovation from them, but I was sorely mistaken. It hardly trumps an i5-2500k, it costs way more, it uses an enormous amount of power, etc, etc.Hopefully they improve it....How do you feel about this?
Unless they come up with another Athlon X2, AMD is in trouble. Intel has been kicking *** for like 5 years now.
I feel AMD is just a fail as a company Their own saving grace is that their CPUs used to be cheaper then Intel's but that seemed to have change with Bulldozer
For lightly threaded tasks, yes it sucks. For well threaded tasks, no, it's actually pretty competitive. Idle power consumption is nice; load power consumption is poor.
