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• sleekz - Thursday, May 02, 2013 - link

  CAPS. The world overclocking record is meaningless. You can't compare clock speed across brands and AMD cores are half-cores. They still can't compete with intel and the circuit size is several years behind, which is why they consume so much power. AMD has given up in the enthusiast CPU market, and is losing money. Reply

• Mombasa69 - Thursday, March 14, 2013 - link

  My AMD Vishera 8350 blows my ghay i7 3770k out the water and was HALF THE PRICE, says it all really. Reply

• Etnos - Saturday, April 20, 2013 - link

  I hardly think you own intel shares so the fact you care so much is pretty sad.
  
  very sad. Reply

• Idiot10 - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - link

  Here comes the 2500K-loving Intel mercenary know-it-all-about-processors again, and yet he cannot sleep to know that there are chips out there who can outperform his 2500K. SOB!!!! Reply

• Idiot10 - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - link

  Here comes Mr. ChariseHogburn again. the all-knowing Intel mercenary processor expert, who thinks nothing can beat his beloved 2500K. SOB!!!! Reply

• sleekz - Thursday, May 02, 2013 - link

  Priced cheaply, but they don't match price/performance wise. Price is not a valid argument against intel. Reply

• Operandi - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link

  Looks like Piledriver delivered. Granted the bar was set pretty low with Bulldozer but this at least has a use case, highly threaded applications but considering this is a process node behind Intel I’d say its pretty good. If they can keep this pace up and hit IPC a bit harder AMD could be back in a pretty good position. Reply

• silverblue - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link

  At least now they can say they beat Intel in a lot of multithreaded situations. Losing to Intel AND using more power was unpalatable. I'd like to see an undervolted 8350, perhaps AMD's conservative side is rearing its ugly head again.
  
  I'm a bit concerned that, even with hard-edge flops and the RCM, the clock speed difference is about 11% for the same power. I'd have thought that even the former would shave off a decent amount, unless RCM doesn't work so well at higher speeds. Still, there's one disadvantage to be had - overclocking won't work so well due to the flop change.
  
  If AMD can beat Intel now in multithreading in most circumstances, Steamroller is just going to let them pull away. Single-threaded workloads are the worry, though. Still, at least they can say that they finally beat Nehalem even in single-threaded work. I did lament the lack of an appearance of Phenom II, but looking at the results, they've buried that particular ghost. Reply

• Finally - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link

  Undervolting, you said?
  Here you go: http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/prozessoren/201... Reply

• Spunjji - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link

  Thanks! +1 to that. Reply