Quote Originally Posted by highoctane View Post
x264 should have been the application BD totally dominated it is merely enough, we're talking 8 cores vs 4 cores 8 threads for intel.

Needless to say a vast majority of folks don't use any software that requires 8 threads or cores at any one time so it's not heading in a direction that will improve the user experience at all if overall performance is sacrificed to gain those extra cores or threads.

At any rate I think it becomes more clear as to why there has been such a big management shakeup at AMD over the past year.
But that's just it, all processors, even ARM, are heading towards more cores. Just because software hasn't caught up to multi-core processors doesn't mean that CPU engineers should go back to making single core chips. The engineers have decided that more cores at a certain clock is faster and more efficient to engineer, manufacture, and power/operate than a single core at a really high clock.

Also, I believe the FX-8150 is a four core processor. They may tout it as an 8-core, but I believe it's really supposed to be a physical solution to Intel's logical hyper-threading.