| Soundwave said: I remember when "high end PC" meant like a $2500-$3000 rig, lol. A $1000 PC was like what your bought your grandparents so they could surf the net. |
If you go with a high-end CPU, Aka. None of that socket 1155 or AM3 stuff... And 3-4x graphics cards and multiple monitors... You can exceed that price tag easily, heck just my screens was almost $2000 and I got them discounted!
| superchunk said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat_(processor)#Jaguar_core Jaguar is AMDs successor to Bobcat. These are AMDs low-power low-cost market... the "mobile" products. Stuff they intend for laptops, netbooks, and so forth. Just because Sony is fusing two of these quad-core mobile processors together, doesn't mean its not a mobile based CPU. The entire APU (CPU plus GPU) will have a TDP below 100W. That's kinda the point of going with an APU to begin with. |
And to put it in perspective, Jaguar has far superior single threading performance to that of Intels Atom and the ARM processors (Think: 50%). Throw 2x quaddies onto a single die for some better multi-threading... And it wouldn't be a bad chip if developers make their games heavily threaded (Which I would benefit greatly from, having 12 logical threads on my CPU).
Heck, I would peg the 8 Core Jaguar's CPU performance to be about 8-10x faster than a Dual-Core Intel Atom. - Or about equivalent to a Phenom 2 x2/Core 2 Duo @ 3.4 - 3.8ghz.
Of course it begs to question if they will use the improved Kabini die or stick with Jaguar, if it's Kabini, IPC should have increased.
Whether the CPU performance is something that's going to remain relevant for a decade remains to be seen, as it's still low-end netbook/tablet processor stuff, just with doubled the cores.
It's certainly not CPU performance that could come near a Core i7 or AMD FX 8350 thats for sure.
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