Quote Originally Posted by BenchZowner View Post
And the point is ? AMD needs a 2 cores and 200MHz advantage to match the 1 1/2 year old i7 tech 960 ?
No matter how I try to have a look at it, I can't see any "miracles" or progress from AMD.
Intel's closing in on faster clock-per-clock processors than Gulftown and going to 8 and 10 cores ( 16 & 20 threads ) in Nov/Dec or Jan-March 2011.
AMD's at 12 Cores / 12 threads, but unless their performance clock per clock and on a core to core basis is the same with these, those will barely compete with the 8c/16t Intel CPU.

They need to work harder.

Nice performance and good prices are always nice, but they need to step up the game before they get down below ( performance-wise ).

I'm all in for performance.
Can we have an Opteron 146 and DFI LP nF4 SLI-DR de-javu anytime soon AMD please ?
The point being that AMD has something that can perform on par with Intels best processors and that also with a $250 lower price tag.

i7 950 is around $560 or some thing and i7 960 is around $580, 1090T is suppose to be $300 jeez. For $300 Intel only offers you a i7 930 or a i7 860 this will force them to release a new 3Ghz+ model or lower the prices of i7 950/960

Other than i7 975/980x the 1090T is in a very good position, also the i7 950 was not launched in 2008 it was launched in Q4 2009.

1090T has the unlocked multi such as the i7 965 and has the same speed with a much lower price tag how is that a bad thing and the 8 and 10 cores you mentioned they are not coming out as soon as you think.

You will see dual cores and maybe quads, intel will again do a test phase with dual cores on a new process node.