"AMD has certainly made a valiant effort, but the aging Athlon 64 X2 line, which seemed like a juggernaut as recently as 15 months ago, just can't keep up. This resulted in the price of the company's fastest desktop CPU, the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ being trimmed to a low $241, while little has been seen of the company's QuadFX platform."
that was back in 2007, the rest is history.
can AMD pull through with Zen? what can we expect?
>>52502656
They better will, otherwise it doesn't look too good for them.
I do have faith in them though, especially since Keller was Zen's lead designer.
Hell, it can only be tremendously better than Bulldozer based architectures due to the die shrink and the switch from CMT to SMT.
>lacking faith in jimmy
heh
>>52502656
yes, AMD will finally be able to match ivy bridge
They switched to developing stuff for servers and smart fridge controllers, AMD is kill
>>52503183
I'd definitely take an 8 core ivy bridge at a good price point.
It's not like Intel improved their performance in the last 5 years
>>52503221
They have, but not by much. Power efficiency is the new meme.
>>52503221
8 core ivy bridge at AMD price would be god tier
>>52502656
The Athlon 64 X2 is still a fucking juggernaut.
>>52503140
Jimmy left AMD. Jimmy left.
>inb4 the more instructions per clock is just their own version of hyperthreading
>>52505090
Jesus Christ
I think that they made radeon technologies overly independent is worrying, worst case scenario samsung will buy it if CPU branch goes down.
>>52505061
he leaves everyone when project is done
amd blows so hard that used intel chips are cheaper and perform better than new amd chips
Will AMD finally be able to get power efficiency high enough for them to matter in the mobile space? I love my A10-5750M, but holy shit that fucker almost melts the case's plastic off. Dat 4x 3,2GHz though.
>>52505745
Never doubt the Keller.
>>52505090
pls no
>>52506610
fuck.
I really hope they do. I'm sick of Intel's incredibely jewish socket policy.
>>52502656
Zen will have Haswell level of performance by AMD's own expectations.
