Hehe.. its right, ^^^^^ and i have to be honest, AMD GPU's are pretty sweet and cut it right at the very top, right now some might rightfuly argue that the 7970 GE is the fastest single GPU on earth.
But it is pretty bloody ironic that you need an Intel CPU to get the very best out of them in all situations, i even find it perversely amusing.
But that does not take way from the fact that AMD's CPU's offer good performance for not much money.
Perhaps one day they will once again be more competitive with Intel at the top end.
Piledriver was a 'Tick' all be it a decent one over Bulldozer, it really just fixed most of what was wrong with it and improved the performance a bit.
Steamroller is AMD's next 'Tok', 28nm and there should be a decent IPC improvement, 'excavator' <- oh Good Grief... not again with this construction machinery theme, is the next 'Gong' if there is to be a catch up with Intel at the top end that's it.
DG, its no good saying its slower over and over again and then continue to say it over and over again when the benchmarks prove otherwise;- while also complain about using those benchmarks which you would be all over constantly if they showed the Intel faster, your suiting your own agenda by making silly unsubstantiated blanket statements.
And its so obvious, you have some nerve i'll give you that, is this what the Intel camp is getting reduced to? fascinating.
BTW, you can't overclock your quoted CPU and its slower overall at the same price.
they priced it against this cpu (proven fact ask or write to amd if you dont believe me )
