Scoobes said:
As a company I think they'll be fine. The Bulldozer is good for multi-threaded applications so should be good in the lucrative server market but the power draw is a concern. At the other end of the spectrum, the Fusion line seem to be selling well in laptops, it's only the gaming/enthusiast users they've really screwed up on and I think that's more down to poor marketing. Seriously, why hype something with the FX names, the world record overclock, the marketing slides etc. if the chip is worse then current offerings from Intel and even fails on price/performance? They had to know reviews would be brutal. Bizzarely, I think Bulldozer is ahed of its time. AMD gambled that they'd be more multi-threaded programs by this point, but they aren't. Sadly, by the time software devs catch up with the new architecture there'll be plenty of superior alternatives (from both Intel and AMD) anyway that there's no point in getting Bulldozer now. |
I think so too. And I'd totally grab a zambezi CPU if anything that doesn't crunch threads like crazy was so damn weak compared to the 2600k, which is very very very nicely priced.
