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is Intel just that much beter?

jonneymendoza said:
well said. AMD are finished
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And that's just as ludicrous.

But AMD are a complete no show in the tablet/phablet/phone market.

As far as low power go, overall AMD aren't really doing all that well in terms of sales/marketshare.

Sure, there's some very good AMD laptops (But they're not really the "lower power" we're talking about), but you can't get an AMD equivalent of many designs, take my Acer S7. Nothing AMD has comes close to that, at least at the moment.
 
The only 'ups' AMD have over Intel are price, and they sound cool. Other than that, they aren't as good generally in comparison. Still able to do their job though.
 
I used to be all over the lower price amd offerings, from the K6-II to the Duron, Athlon64.

Then i went E6600, Q6600, 2500K and i haven't looked back. My next upgrade in a year or twplo would be intel unless AMD can pull off an absolute show stopper.
 
Anyone seen the Witcher 3 recommended specs? i5s are not getting much love considering they are so superior!

Minimum System Requirements

Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz
AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940

Recommended System Requirements

Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3,4 GHz
AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz

Given the 8 core console CPU setup, IMO < 8 cores from here on out is going to mean making sacrifices when gaming. Of course they will still be fine for browsing/office etc though :)
 
The Intel/AMD CPU requirements have never made sense (For a lot of games to be honest), unless you're suggesting the AMD Phenom II X4 is equivalent to the i5 2500k.

Which obviously it's not, and by a large margin.

I seriously doubt an i5 2500K would be the bottleneck if paired with the recommended GPU (Although I doubt an FX83 would be either).

If anyone's ran Witcher 2, the game's almost entirely GPU bottlenecked.
 
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Rexton said:
Kinda out of the loop here, but are AMD going to release a high end CPU to rival Intel anytime soon?
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Who know if AMD Zen will match performance or faster than Intel or it could be another disaster like bulldozer, it will probably launch in mid or end 2016 or into 2017 if it delayed.
 
Martini1991 said:
The Intel/AMD CPU requirements have never made sense (For a lot of games to be honest), unless you're suggesting the AMD Phenom II X4 is equivalent to the i5 2500k.

Which obviously it's not, and by a large margin.

I seriously doubt an i5 2500K would be the bottleneck if paired with the recommended GPU (Although I doubt an FX83 would be either).

If anyone's ran Witcher 2, the game's almost entirely GPU bottlenecked.
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I think some games requirements are sky high. I mean, some games which require a 290x, I can run @ultra on my 270x w/i5 4670k @4.6ghz, with 60 fps no problem. I think they make them so high so they can cover themselves in case they get complaints kind of thing.

Who knows.
 
Rexton said:
Kinda out of the loop here, but are AMD going to release a high end CPU to rival Intel anytime soon?
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No. As far as we know, AMD has no plans to release an FX version of Steamroller. We also only know of plans for Socket FM2 (APU) versions of Excavator, nothing (yet) for Socket AM3+.

A brand new architecture (i.e. not a derivative of Bulldozer) is due in 2016, which I imagine will have a performance version unless they decide to completely abandon that arena.
 
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