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I'd call it a botched marketing campaign and an engineering triumph. With that said, the consumer market will make BD into a failure because it doesn't beat Intel on white paper.
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I'd call it a botched marketing campaign and an engineering triumph. With that said, the consumer market will make BD into a failure because it doesn't beat Intel on white paper.
Sorry, but I need clarification.. How does a chip that uses more than double the transistors and draws way more power yet performs worse equal an engineering triumph?
AMD reinvented the wheel.
Funny... What I'm saying is that AMD is going to play Intel's game of core manipulation.
I wrote an article explaining all this.
I'd call it a botched marketing campaign and an engineering triumph. With that said, the consumer market will make BD into a failure because it doesn't beat Intel on white paper.
The consumer market causing the downfall of the BD is only an effect. The cause is by the benchmarks done over the CPU, therefore effecting the decisions of the customers who still have the mentality that the Benchmarks are everything, and a CPU must be better then all the others. I have actually realized this recently when I began to ponder over the real concepts of a benchmark. And it completely blew my mind. Seeing how a core 2 duo and an Anthalon 2x still kicks but in the game world, I see how it works.
If you surf the net a bit, you will find that people will immediately say BD is a fail core. None of them has actually bought it, but they have seen the benchmarks, and they are looking at it as what it was supposed to be, and not what it is.
Explain to someone that a Benchmark is over processes that you will rarely if ever run into, and should not be the guideline when buying a CPU, and they will throw a fit. Tell someone that a Avg FPS is only for Speed stability and not speed as a whole, and they will scream. Tell someone that in real world scenarios a certain core will pull through indefinitely, the benches say other wise in the mentality of your peer. The benchmarks are seen as a marketing method to some average consumers and they ignore them completely. For the more experienced customers, who have been in the game for a while, the Benches means everything. So who typically makes a good decision?
If you surf the net a bit, you will find that people will immediately say BD is a fail core. None of them has actually bought it, but they have seen the benchmarks, and they are looking at it as what it was supposed to be, and not what it is.
Not really, the problem is calling is an 8 core when its not in reallity an 8 core. Marketing won out over common sense it would appear.
Likewise, it's the server workloads where it will truly shine.
But it won't unless heat output and power draw isn't an issue, and in a data center it is always an issue.
Iceland my friends, Iceland. Other cold climates areas are also drawing data center interest. Central Oregon has a Facebook data center in Prineville, climate was a factor; long, cold winters. Basically, just pump ambient air through the servers and leave the windows open.