No its not. Also its not the same price. There is already a thread about the FX7500 performance and price.
The FX7500 is a Core i3 haswell with better than HD5000 graphics. If you could buy a laptop with Core i3 and HD5000 at the same price of that AMD Laptop you would praise it like the second coming.
I have a 5x5" genuine Intel Pentium Pro sticker on my i7 laptop, I bought a pack of them back in like 1998 or 99 off ebay and have been carefully doling them out ever sense. That was and still is a great CPU. Probly only above the 6x86 Cyrix in my favorites list.
It's a damn shame one can't still use old CPU's the way you can use an old car for the same basic thing a new car does.
Yeah tis a shame, the ancient platform they are tied to is too much of a PITA to get up and running. Needs its own VRM add on card as well.
I saw a scrap collector guy on youtube once destroy a dual pentium PRO rig... I was mortified D:
You can look at it any way you want, but some philosophical musing does not change the bottom line, which is performance.
Why should game developers change their programming paradigms because of the FX? If low core number/high IPC programming model is working for them, and giving them lower costs, why bother with AMD's unmitigated failures?
cryengine
you are almost saying that unreal should build their engine for dual cores...meanwhile cryengine supporting 4+threads would be laughing all the way to the bank.
No its not. Also its not the same price. There is already a thread about the FX7500 performance and price.
There is actually a whole community of people that collect vintage CPU's, stuff I didn't have a clue existed. Was really neat reading, I want to build a display case for an entire series of like IDT Winchips or some such. Really neat reading here http://www.cpushack.com/
I think that's why I have a hard time hating something like the FX series. Never-minding the fact that I've been perfectly happy with the performance of the couple I've had, but just because it's not a Ferrari does not in my view doom it to useless crap status, especially when I'm not convinced it isn't the way the software is written as much as anything else. I apply the same judgement system to computer hardware I do to cars. I sell the automotive equivalent of 80386 parts to people all over the world every day for comical amounts of money. They are absolute crap by every measurable attribute, but they aren't crap, they are coveted.
I just can't look at stuff that way. The Pentium Pro is no less a great CPU today than it was years ago despite the fact that there are so many faster and better CPU's around now. The only hard fact I can find to differentiate is an old car can still do the same basic things a new car does, whereas an old CPU can't run current software. At the same time I'm puzzled by that, I do the same stuff on a PC I did five or ten or fifteen years ago, but the hardware I used then, can't do it now. It's like if a ten year old car suddenly can't go over 45mph or can't drive on certain roads. It's puzzling from a philosophical pov. I understand why an old CPU can't run modern software, but I don't completely accept that this is the way it should be.
Just like this game, to be semi-on topic, I'm fairly sure if you put a gun to the head of the people writing or re-writing this game and insisted they make it perform well on an FX, they could have. If that is so, which I strongly suspect based on how well some games and apps perform, then is it really that telling as to the quality or ability of the FX or telling of the goals of the guys writing the software? I think a more genuine interpretation is "this is how this software runs on x and y cpu's" rather than "this software runs great on x cpu and y cpu is junk". I think that latter interpretation is mighty shallow at best.