Quote Originally Posted by Drwho? View Post
Great, so, they can get close to the Core 2 Quad Q9400, with the top end of their CPUs, that means they are about one generation and half behind, the gap is still increasing ...
(Q9400 is in the middle of the Core 2 Quad selection)
I would not call that a success if I was the Green performance guy.
The best way to help them is to stay honnest about it, just my 2 cents. (Remember the Pentium 4 time frame, it takes to understand your problem to fix it, I learned this)
Remember that we are talking about AMD's first 45nm cpu compared to intels matured 45nm cpu's.
Add to this the fact that intel is allready using ddr3 and AMD has yet to reap the benefits of ddr3, and it's easy to see the new phenom will make AMD more competative, not less.

Of course we can keep on whining about how much generations/years/performance AMD is still behind, but while we do that, let's also keep an eye on the direction in which AMD is moving.
Which is currently the right direction as far as I can see.