Jul 11, 2012, 10:46 PM
ACTUALLY, I wasn't really being sarcastic there. As of the 2000 and 3000 series the only price point AMD holds is the 50-100$ range, which is really... ugh. My Q6600 holds its own against that shit and I bought it in 2006 for less than 200$. I mean you can TRIPLE the performance of that price-range for another 80$.
They really get by on the fact that people still THINK that they have better price/performance still. For the most part they even lost their TDP and Wattage advantage when intel jumped the shark on their manufacturing processes.
Their 8-core has a SLIGHT advantage if you're looking at the 200$ range, but that's sort of counteracted by the fact that you'll get much better performance in video games (and almost everything else) with the i5-3570 because nothing on earth is optimized for 8-cores.
They really get by on the fact that people still THINK that they have better price/performance still. For the most part they even lost their TDP and Wattage advantage when intel jumped the shark on their manufacturing processes.
Their 8-core has a SLIGHT advantage if you're looking at the 200$ range, but that's sort of counteracted by the fact that you'll get much better performance in video games (and almost everything else) with the i5-3570 because nothing on earth is optimized for 8-cores.
/sarcasm