bystander36
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- Apr 1, 2013
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Umm.
AMD is creating more cores to seperate themselves from Intel..??
I though the CPU companies moved to multi core CPUs because it was not possible to increase performance significantly on a single core CPU.
Plus, AMD's multi-threaded performance is pretty decent(Read: Not Haswell good, but not much far behind).
Plus who told you that FX-8350 is 8 Core..??
It is infact a 4 core just like Intel's i7. You think it is 8 cores because of AMD's stupid MODULE marketing and because they use CMT vs Intel's SMT(Hyper threading).
There is already enough blood being shed over this in the CPU forum, go there and educate yourself
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2353426&page=4
Just because they aren't 8 full cores does not mean they aren't more cores than Intel's i7's. Intel doesn't even have partially more cores than 4 on theirs. They just allow 2 threads to run on the same core with HT.
Well you have to pay dev's to use your features because this is a business, not an NPO(non profit organizations).
Intel has paid Dell in the past to use Intel's features (CPUs) eventhough they were performing worst then AMD's.
Similarly, if AMD doesn't pay the dev to use their features then the dev's will stick to what they have been previously using because, you know there is no $$$ incentive in trying something new.
Dev's usually don't care if something is good or bad, they care about the money. If someone is paying them to use something that is bad, they will not willingly move to a 'better' alternative, because the loose money.
But, if the 'better' alternative also comes with money, then maybe they can think about it.
Ultimately, you don't have to pay dev's to use your product. They should want to use them on their own merits. I also do not have a problem that they did spend money on it either, but because they had to, you do have to question just how good it is. We'll just have to wait and see.