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Originally Posted by Wandering_Youth
Intel is all about performance. You get what you pay for with their tech. They offer the best performance per dollar for their CPU. Meaning some of their CPUs with 4 cores can beat a 6 core AMD CPU in performance. The reason for that is because their CPU architecture is very refined allowing their CPU to work very efficiently which AMD is lacking currently due to their CPUs being able to be backwards compatible with older or new motherboards. With Intel you pretty much need to buy a new motherboard for a new generation CPU and vice versa which can be expensive.
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That's not quite true. Gaming performance, yes, hands down because the AMD architecture, particularly the Bulldozer, is terrible at single thread operations and the modules are over taxed with two active cores per. But the Bulldozer architecture was never designed for lightly threaded processes (and Trinity doesn't look to be much better) and, as such, would expectedly under perform Intel (which has a bit of an unfair bias in benchmarking tests) who's single or lightly threaded throughput is phenomenal. If you go into the, still, more niche markets of heavy threaded processes you'll start to see that the highly touted i7 at $300 isn't that far ahead of the FX-8100 series at $200. For many people, that $100 for a rather inconsequential difference in performance might be better spent elsewhere and Intel's superiority on price to performance begins to blur.
As for the architecture, the Bulldozer chips are dumb all around and I don't know why AMD insists on making such strange design choices. There's not enough resources per module (read: two cores per module, an FX-4100 has two modules and four cores) but if you were to deactivate one core per module, the cores would perform much better than they currently can and do. This means that poor and inefficient design choices (AMD now does computer printing for its CPUs instead of their older hand assembly) are limiting good ideas. Its like a car with a great engine but everything else is rusted.
You'd think they'd fix the god awful memory controller in the Bulldozer chips but looking at recent results... I doubt it. AMD is in the process of finding problems and fixing only half of them in a generation for some strange reason. Its like they don't even want to compete.
