Quote Originally Posted by BeepBeep2 View Post
but if the competing desktop option that does leaps and bounds better in that 40%, is equal in another 30% with lower power consumption, and 10-15% worse performance in the last 30%, I'm not going to be happy with the product for several reasons.
This pretty much sums up Vishera. Unsuitable for gaming, a mixed bag on business apps, and double the power because it's on a 32nm die (vs 22nm for IB) and has to be run at higher base clocks due to lower IPC.

It's sort of like the old NVIDIA FX5800 Ultra, a chip OCd out of the box to compete. I keep coming back to "Why the He!! didn't they shrink Thuban six core chips to 32nm and sell them at 4GHz when they saw what Bulldozer/Vishera is?!?!"

That chip would have used less power, and outperformed Vishera 95% of the time.