Are they all at stock clocks in the review? If so, 5820's stock + turbo advantage vs. the 5960 easily explains it. Also, how large are the differences?
As far as perf/clock goes, Jaguar is not far behind AMD's fat core. It can't clock as high (at least while maintaining efficiency), but at 2G and below, it's definitely more power efficient than AMD's big cores.
Consoles simplify things greatly vs PCs in day to day use (put a game in and it plays--if it installs, it just does it, it doesn't guide you through security prompts that are necessary on a PC), and they are generic--no driver issues and the like, no decisions on what controllers are the best...
Just a pure guess, but at same clocks I'd guess Kaveri due to increased IPC (including cache improvements, if I'm not mistaken) and lowered module penalty. However, on the topic of cache, Vishera has more of it, so I'm not so sure.
This thread has gotten really stupid. Mario Kart is a great game, so is Smash Bros, as are pretty much all Nintendo franchises. And Donkey Kong is probably a little more realistic than Call of Duty and Battlefield and Halo (one man wars are as much fantasyland BS as Kremlings and Koopas).
they're also doing console chips on 20nm, I'm pretty sure. I don't doubt we'll see some 20nm non-console APUs released by the end of next year though--however, released doesn't necessarily mean widely available
Not only do they seem closer, camera sensors and lenses aren't quite as monopolized as high performance cpus, are they? So it makes even more sense for Apple to prioritze the CPUs, since they can likely pit suppliers for camera sensors and lenses against each other for features and price (they...
This is a good argument against textbook economics here. And I'd very much agree with you--Apple vs. Windows in PCs at one point, Apple vs. Samsung or Android more generally in phones today, brands have their irrational cheerleaders across the spectrum. It's very unfortunate. On the other hand...
If AMD has cash reserves, then cash is the asset they are "selling" at a rate of $1/$1 to pay down the debt. I assume that cash is not accruing interest at a rate equal to or greater than the interest they pay on debt, so they would be saving money by shedding an asset that is performing worse...
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