GTFO! This has been the longest wait between performance parts ever. 3 years since Nehalem was released.
Well that is not entirely accurate. The current Sandy Bridge lineup is faster than Nehalem in applications that the general public actually uses.
For some reason I would like a more reliable source than the one in the OP, however.
What Intel marks as "Mainstream" or "Performance" in their slides is just pure marketing. It's how they perform that matters.
And seeing how they are the fastest chips on the market, I think you can call the 2500/2600k "performace"
Well that is not entirely accurate. The current Sandy Bridge lineup is faster than Nehalem in applications that the general public actually uses.
For some reason I would like a more reliable source than the one in the OP, however.
What Intel marks as "Mainstream" or "Performance" in their slides is just pure marketing. It's how they perform that matters.
And seeing how they are the fastest chips on the market, I think you can call the 2500/2600k "performace"
Well that is not entirely accurate. The current Sandy Bridge lineup is faster than Nehalem in applications that the general public actually uses.
For some reason I would like a more reliable source than the one in the OP, however.
What Intel marks as "Mainstream" or "Performance" in their slides is just pure marketing. It's how they perform that matters.
And seeing how they are the fastest chips on the market, I think you can call the 2500/2600k "performace"
Glad I jumped on Sandy Bridge early this year. This will probably also delay Ivy Bridge.
:'(
I'm willing to place a bet that IBs won't be seen before Q3 '12 now.
(Complete speculation follows... remember that I am interested in buying BD so I'm not an AMD hater.) IF I were the suspicious sort I might even say that Intel has an inside track on BD performance and finding that it's not presenting any challenge at all they figure why should they cannibalize their own existing lineup sales? Yet another reason why vigorous competition on the high end is beneficial to everyone.
Damn!
Well that is not entirely accurate. The current Sandy Bridge lineup is faster than Nehalem in applications that the general public actually uses.
Intel's *really* screwing up their high end stuff.
Remember that Intel competes with itself (more specifically the 80% of the market it sold its CPU's to last year and the year before) for upgrade and replacement sales.
Delaying IB means delaying a huge volume of sales that it needs and wants, even if AMD fails to offer a compelling product in comparison to the chips already in everyone's rigs Intel still needs to.
The TAM for upgrading outdated rigs to Sandy Bridge class performance is only $30-40B, to get the next $30-40B of sales (i.e. 2012's revenue) they need to compel consumers to replace their CPU's (80% of which are Intel CPU's).
AMD could go bankrupt today and Intel's need to sell IB will persist. They must make last years CPU's obsolete by launching next year's CPU's or they won't have much in the way of sales next year.
Wow... The chance of Intel facing problems with what is indeed a huge leap in manufacturing technology is something that i see no one speaking about... But yes, AMD's BD must suck... even though there's a guy with SR2 rig as a desktop at XS saying that it would best a i7 990x...
You don't have to believe me... just search this user, 'rintamarotta' on XS and his post
You may want to believe a guy using SR2 for a desktop, who has access to information on BD