Quote Originally Posted by Iconyu View Post
The price is probably low because Intel have to push AVX as the standard, last time they tried to push their 64bit standard Microsoft told them to piss off. So if they price too high they may end up having to adopt another AMD standard and that would be sour.

Also would I be fair in thinking that AVX optimisations will give a even bigger boost, so it would be like comparing the original P4 benchmarks before the benchmark makers added SSE2?
AMD already decided to adopt AVX so there is no other AMD standart on the horizon therefore there is no reason for Intel to lowering prices because of AVX.