Why does phenom perform better than an intel quad at high resolution in Lost Planet?

[Devil's Prophet]

I don't agree with his conclusions whatsoever, he's clearly talking in a server context (and even on a desktop I still don't agree). He's saying if you add more raw power to a system, it shouldn't scale linearly. That's not very cost-effective is it?

More power as in more cores? More parallel power in situations that need serial power? Or what are you saying that isn't right?

Additionally, he's saying that the CPUs should be matched to the infrastructure. By that logic, we should be back with 386s, since there's no chance a HD will be able to saturate a faster CPU. Even a 386 might be too fast.

That's why they invented RAM and even RAMdisks. Now solidstate is also getting closer.

I know he's getting at Intel being faster in single-threaded apps is a good thing, and that scaling beyond that, it's still faster than AMD. That's fine, and most definitely true. But trying to pretend that scaling isn't important with multi-CPU server/super-computer situations is a joke. Incidentally in servers Phenom beats Intel handedly, seems that scaling suddenly matters.

Doesn't he mean the absolute numbers are more important than the scaling numbers on their own? Just like you say in the above of this quotation.

Anyway, are you sure you're not pulling his words out of context in a charade of sarcasm? Because in my experience that happens A LOT in here.