Yep.
I even stood ready to upgrade my CPU a few weeks ago (even made a post here I think) until I saw that I hardly stood to gain many FPS at all.
yep, I will be upgrading this year, I'm waiting for AMD/Nvidia and AMD/Intel for the new architecture before I do, but i'll be looking at purely gaming performance, I may play about with Unreal Engine but not enough to warrant a processor just for it. All the other bells and whistles can do one, i'm not paying £200 more for an extra 5fps.
I suspect all will run games pretty similarly so I will go with the best value.
Nope since i've just upgraded to a full x99 build and a 5930k nothing amd will bring out this year will beat even that and that has been out already for over a year.
Seen this coming for a very long time been building pc's and working in the industry for 18 years and from the 15000 pc's we support the last of the amd based dell/hp machines have gone for good in the last 2-3 years. Intel have just done better in the last 10 years and i can't see that changing no matter how much you want it to.
Couldn't disagree more.
You refer to the "Industry" as though it's all about performance. It really isn't it's about value for 99% of business, they want a PC that runs Word and Excel and couldn't care about anything else, we argue here about which is more powerful but in reality most companies don't care.
It will come down to best value for money. This time round both AMD and Intel will be on the same fabrication, AMD with APU's will be more likely to perform better than Intels onboard counterparts as such if they market it right they will win back some market share.
If anything the ONLY thing that prevents AMD from performing well is quite frankly it's god awful marketing. AMD and Intel are so close to each other in performance when it comes to games, yet people will spend way more money on an Intel processor for similar performance despite someone who owns a AMD processor having pretty much the same FPS.
The issue is when it comes to performance there as so many different areas different programs which benefits different things most people don't use/need but people roll them all into one (Which for Intels marketing team is a massive win).
For me personally while I have an Intel now I would have no issue going red, even if the performance isn't as good if it's £200+ cheaper it's worth it.
Just my opinion anyway =)