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Was it the Wrong Time to Buy Intel?

WuMyster

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I'm reading a load of articles that seem worrying about console ports running much better on AMD hardware.
Someone over from AMD even quoted that Intel may have trouble with the PC ports now.

What's your take?
 
Someone from AMD bigged up their own CPU's?

I wouldn't worry, a lot of it is hyperbole.
The gap between the CPU's won't be so prolific in new games.
 
True, always a good tactic to talk down to your competitors.
Are games even fully utilising 4 cores at the moment?
 
If that were true, wouldn't we see multi-core games running better on high-core AMDs vs. dual/quad core Intels?
 
Its more of the fact that next gen games will start to be optimised for higher cores which is what everyone is talking about.
 
What a lot of people seems to misunderstand is that this business with consoles and AMD is not going to make Intels hardware worse than AMDs but instead its about AMD having the ability to push developers to better utilize AMD hardware to get the most out of it. That would mean that the gap between current released Intel products and AMD products might be close up a bit with future xbox/ps4 console ports. It also may give AMD the ability to have their future products supported better from the begining.
 
Exactly my point. Their hardware wont magicly become superior, im just wondering how better optimised games will be on AMD hardware.
 
It'll be optimised in that it can use more cores, but AMD still need to improve their core for core performance as you won't get a game that can spread the load of a game 12.5 x 8 (Getting the maximum performance out of the chip) at least not anytime soon.
 
IIRC there was a big fuss not so long ago at one of the big conventions about the next gen being demonstrated on Intel CPUs and NVidia cards. If there were big gains to be had wouldn't they have used AMD CPUs.

I don't know a lot about consoles so if I am totally wrong please correct the above.
 
Both AMD and Intel will likely get a boost from this because
the next gen games will be more optimised for multi core.

AMD might get a better boost because the next gen consoles
have all AMD hardware thought don't expect because of this,
AMD will automatically be much better than Intel for gaming.
 
I'm thinking 8350 will gradually get better for new games as developers optimize for 8 cores due to both consoles being 8 core aswell. But It would be a huge leap from effectively dual core to octocore so doubt it will happen any time soon really.
 
John Carmack has stated that Intel CPU's will still have the advantage, console optimisation or not and that they have the best silicon engineers in the world.
Intel are moving onto 14nm while AMD/Nvidia are still stuck at 28nm.
 
intel are faster in gaming regardless of any bs this will continue forever basically now as amd cant over take them or cause enough damage.

amd have had chances but now amd just hold there head enough to survive so theyll just continue to tread water and intel will remain the main big dog.

doesn't matter about consoles.
 
As mentioned, it should see games better optimized for more cores / threads. This benefits everyone.

Would still fancy Intel too keep up due to their far superior clock for clock performance, even on their lowly 4 core CPU's lol
 
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