Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
It doesn't have to beat Intel's core.

If AMD gives us an affordable chip with 8 reasonably fast cores (say, within 20% of Intel's core), such a chip will be highly competitive with Intel's 4c/8t offers.
i was not saying amd had to win outright, but everything has been a disappointment with amd since the 939/940 with the thulban being kind of fun (maybe since amd gave me one im a bit bias as liking it) but all disappointment.

Quote Originally Posted by AliG View Post
lolwut.

I get why you'd want that, but that's kinda ridiculous to expect a competitor to a chip that still retails for $1000 to be priced at $250. If it's within 12% of the 5960X, you can be sure the price will only 20-25% lower.
intel charges $1100 for the 6900k but only $600 for the 6850k. the 6850k is about 10% slower, and they charge $1650 for the 6950x and that is only around 7% faster than the 6900k. amd is clearly not targeting that market and wants in on the 6600k and 6700k range to get market share back. even if they were competative in that $600+ range they could not sell anything there. hell in servers look at when the g34 launched. it stomped intel in performance per watt and in performance per U in clusters for highly threaded server applications but people still bought intel like amd was not even an option.