Could AMD cpu's be viable with dx12

[Lokken86]

Just a thought. Has anyone thought that with dx12 on the horizon perhaps AMD cpus could once again be suitable for high end gear, what with the reduced cpu overheads.

I guess we will find out what gains are to be had soon enough.

 

[Lokken86]

It wouldn't matter if it only had 40% increase and Intel are still way faster if it was cutting through dx12 games anyway. Hell Intel could be 100times faster but I wouldn't care if I could run the games without being bottlenecked.
My hope is that while remaining in second place AMD cpus will still have more than enough power to game with top end gpus installed.
We can dream.

 

[Lokken86]

So I didn't realise the size difference between AMD and Intel until i just looked it up... For AMD to be where they are right now is pretty impressive considering their size difference with Intel. Intel are a massive massive company with 10x the number of employees(100000+) and 10x the revenue. Even Nvidia aren't too far off AMD employee count wise 8000+ compared to 9000+.

On a side note i did my bit for them the other day and bought an 8350 as part of my old AMD system upgrade.

I noticed also the other day that AMD have a market cap of 1.4billion compared to Intel at 134billion .

 

[Lokken86]

Not sure what to make of that graph, I would have suspicions of any game where the i3 comfortably beats the FX in a "multi-threaded" game. Strange, and where are the i5's?

Not looking good for my theory so far .

I expected better from an 8 core...