AMD Phenom X6 1090T Black Edition & 1055T launch on 4/27

[Florinmocanu]

i think the prices are right.

why should we pay 1k for a CPU which is 1.2 billion transistors?

A GPU with 2-3 billion transistors sells for 400-500, but for a chip half the size we pay 1k? Bull for insane prices in the CPU world.

PS: Until a CPU can make hot coffee and give hot water together with being able to process, than i don't see the point in 1k prices.

[ilkkahy]

i think the prices are right.

why should we pay 1k for a CPU which is 1.2 billion transistors?

A GPU with 2-3 billion transistors sells for 400-500, but for a chip half the size we pay 1k? Bull for insane prices in the CPU world.

PS: Until a CPU can make hot coffee and give hot water together with being able to process, than i don't see the point in 1k prices.

CPU & GPU thingies are bit more complex than rawmaterials that can be easily priced as $/kg like bananas or metals. Price comes from continuing research & development and such "minor" things. But i get your point.

[Florinmocanu]

CPU and GPU are both logic, but CPU is more cache transistors than logic dedicated transistors (the actual cores) while in GPUs is the other way around, cache is a small percent in the total count.

And GPUs are twice as big in transistor count, even if in the logic transistor count it's probably way more, but still, CPUs cost a lot more than GPUs.

And i blame this on both AMD and Intel, both had 1k-500$ CPUS, while a 2-3x size GPU costs 400-500.

By that logic, a GTX 480 should be like 1.5-2k$, if the price/transistor ratios remains the same.

[zalbard]

CPU & GPU thingies are bit more complex than rawmaterials that can be easily priced as $/kg like bananas or metals. Price comes from continuing research & development and such "minor" things. But i get your point.

Well, obviously RnD matters.
But so does competition. And look how Intel's doing...