| Pemalite said: Of course. Because anything else would be a side-grade/down-grade. |
Sorry, I misunderstood where you were coming from. Of course since you already have a 6-core/12T CPU, it would only make sense to upgrade based on what you described. I thought you meant you'd only consider an AMD processor if it was faster than an Intel equivalent at the same price by at least 33% for your next purchase. In other words if there is a 6 core Haswell and a 6-core Streamroller, assuming the Steamroller was faster per core (which I doubt anyway), you'd still need 2 extra cores just to leave Intel. My bad, I misunderstood your post. Even IVB-E doesn't sound like a good upgrade for you. Actually with 3x 7970s, a 5.5ghz i7 quad Haswell would be better than a 6-core IVB-E. There are almost no games that would work faster on a 6-core Intel than a faster clocked, higher IPC quad-core Intel CPU with HT. Maybe we'll get there at some point but I invision the exact situation of Haswell vs. IVB-E that happened with of i7 2600K vs. i7-990X.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i7-2600k-990x_9.html#sect2
I can't see games suddenly using 8 threads in the next 2 years. I see no reason at all for IVB-E for gaming even if Intel makes it an 8- core offering. But if you use your CPU for things while gaming or other than games, more cores sounds nice :)
