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Ashbringer |
There was a rumor that Intel was going to preview their Hybrid GPU/CPU's near the end of this year. I'm wondering how far along AMD's Hybrid chips are?
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thermistor |
The dual core K8 arch is really, really old...the X2 3800 came out in 2005. Yeah, they changed to AM2 away from 939, but my understanding is the arch between the 3800 and 6400 is essentially identical, except for cache sizes along the way up the Ghz tree (not sure, but certain models have 512kb/core others have 256kb/core).
Also, the 90 to 65 nm transition didn't help K8 very much, did it? |
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It makes no sense for AMD to produce dual core Phenoms. The Phenom's MC/L3 eats up too much power. AMD would be selling hot, slow dual cores that still don't perform as well as Core 2, and would have to sell them at the same budget price points as their current K8 dual core line. This would entail the costs for the production of a new product, a product that is slower and which adds no profits.
The sensible move is for AMD to keep the dual core K8s running and benefiting from perhaps one more bump in speed and efficiency as the 65nm node gets tweaked one last time. |
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AMDisDEC |
Not me.
I'd like to stick with AMD, but from here into the foreseeable future it's Nehalem (and offspring) without a shadow of doubt. This will be my first Intel system in over 10 years. In all that time, I've been building AMD. Now I have to go with the better run company with the better valued products. AMD MAY yet surprise me with Fusion, but I seriously doubt it. |
#18, maybe he meant it literally.
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#15, Hahahaha, good one! :)
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wingless |
Wow, we all though they were just canceled and speculation got out of control as usual. AMD needs to get these clarifying statements out a little sooner. All in all, news about AMD recently has been fairly positive and you really get the sense that they are getting back on track. I'm glad to see they've pulled out of their nose dive. By this time in 2009 they'll be well into the black.
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AbRASiON |
AMD need to cut the price of all their processors by 50% to get sales - which will completely burn their wallets.
Either way right now, there's very very little reason to consider their lineup, very few people on forums are posting saying 'they are still a viable option!' even the AMD lovers are a bit dismayed :( it's a bit sad. Intel are charging too little for their CPU's right now - considering price / performance - traditionally you couldn't get such awesome chips for 150$ US from intel but now you can :/ this means if AMD want sales they need to offer 50 - > 99$ chips which are 3/4 as fast but a saving. I purched an Athlon XP to upgrade my Celeron years ago because it was HALF the price for 7/10'ths of the performance of the intel option Now,.... the intel option is so cheap, stuff it - may as well just pay for it. Poor AMD :( I hope they don't die. |
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Deli |
IMHO, a huge percent of the market has almost no need for anything past dual core X2 or Pentiums. What they need is more RAM and better PSUs so their machines last longer.
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srg86 |
sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to #15
Yeah, I'm not sure what to make of this, either he really has been unlucky (I've never had a core 2 system but I've never heard anything against them) or that was just a troll post. |
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StashTheVampede |
Triple core *are* the "dual core" of yesteryear.
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albundy |
Next thing you know they will be coming out with single core phenoms. impressive.
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