The 8 core and under prices seem market reasonable but your price speculation above that makes no sense. Adding one additional 8 core chiplet wouldnt cost more as the whole 8 cpu. 299 vs 699. I would expect to see the base 12 core at 400-450 and the base 16 at 600 or less. Also I'm not convinced...
Well now, this news could really shake up the PC industry. These CPU + GPU packages, CGPU?,could end up as the in the majority of mid range "gaming" laptops and could roll over into other segments as well. What happens if most laptop and even many desktop designs revolve around this CGPU style...
Why? So many seem to think AMD must beat a 1080ti to accomplish anything. AMD just need something to sell in the sub $500, 1070/1080 and upcoming 2070/2080 segment. I certainly dont understand how their flagship can appear to be so far behind NVIDIA top card after all these delays but it really...
Equal performing products at same price? I would buy AMD. I believe they have better drivers at this point ( just a belief, since I currently run NVIDIA but NVIDIA experience hasnt been that impressive and I have had to rollback drivers many times). AMD GPU architecture does seem to age better...
No one really knows how well AMD will perform at this point. If you want a guarantee, just go NVIDIA, you can buy something today and even if you dont have the performance lead in two months at least you will still have many more forum friends.
Buy the GPU first. GIve AMD a couple more months to sort out Ryzen. As a bonus you will have a better idea which AM4 motherboard actually works best and likely some more newly released ones. Might even benefit from slightly more mature silicon too.
edit: just realized this thread was in the DC...
After browsing quite a few english language reviews one thing is clear the quality of tech journalism as a whole is way below where it was when Anand was a more CPU focused site. Take a "leader" like PCPER who tested three whole games for this launch. Seriously just three. Seems most popular...
Negligible performance difference in gaming due to memory speeds with SB arch. Anyone who has been a forum participant for that long knows better.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3/6
If you are speculating, you should have bought some motherboards not the CPU. :cool: There should be plenty of CPU stock for launch. The popular mobos may be hard to find.
look here: http://www.nvidia.com/download/find.aspx
You can eventually get there from the Nvidia front page if you select "All NVIDIA drivers" instead of the more logical "GeForce" drop down option. Then select "Beta and Older" to see them all.
Bottom line is the site is crap for ease of use.
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