Tyler wrote: > When you are talking straight gaming, AMD rules Intel, especially at the > very pricey top end. But when you factor in other real-world performance > (video encoding, photoshop, office benchmarks), it's not so cut and dry.
That depends on which real-world performance. All Xeon and Xeon MP processors lose from the Opterons in server performance tests. Especially if you compare price/performance ratio, but even if you just put the top offerings up against eachother AMD clearly wins. And even though the Itanium outperforms the Opteron, that is an entirely different category where you should also look at IBMs Power architecture. > I think most of it is moot right now, we are due for some major revision > to the CPU in the next couple years that should blow this current > generation out of the water. Depends. For gaming, this is it. Gaming will hardly profit from dual-core or multithreading CPUs. For office work, CPUs are already too fast. For servers, multi-core will help a lot. Over the last years I have been more happy with the innovation AMD has offered then the innovation Intel has offered. AMD's 64 bit and no-execute technology matter more to me then the MHz race and chipset feature creep Intel has offered. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:137781 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
