Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
No it isnot. It is shifting fast now that DX11 is out. All development environments and languages focus on parallel execution and are getting more support for parallel development.
A quadcore at 3GHz will have a significant lead over a hexacore at 2GHz or an octacore at 1.5GHz for a very long time in games. Even if they have the same IPC/core and theoretical performance.

Quote Originally Posted by Sn0wm@n View Post
amd spent more then 5 years designing the chip from the ground up .... yes it will be more then competitive....
Just as Intel did with Pentium 4? Except that Intel had tons of more resources of course.