Yeah, you're gonna need that flamesuit. The article is really rather awful. Their point is that AMD gets a lot of undeserved hate, and their processors aren't as bad as they're made out to be compared to Intel's.
However, not anywhere in the article do they even show any data from their competition to draw such a comparison. They do claim what Intel's power draw is, but by failing to put that data in even a single chart, and compare it to AMD, requires the reader to do far more work than 99% of them are going to do.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
If they wanted to set people who are "misinformed" on the matter straight, they certainly have failed to do so. Regardless of whether or not they are actually correct, and that AMD is "much better than one would be led to believe," that message gets totally lost by that one critical shortcoming.
I guess the performance scaling alongside the power scaling for various workloads is interesting, and not something I see very often. Overclocking for gaming seems very wasteful here. If you're okay with your processor becoming so hot that it'd desolder the socket off the board (not a stab at AMD), you can get very nice performance scaling in Handbrake
Yeah I'll concede that. The article does offer some value. It's just bizarre that they'd leave out the critical piece of information that they base their entire piece on.Not awful really, just incomplete. Without comparable power and performance figures from intel, it is really meaningless. They say how much intel power consumption increases with overclocking, but they give no absolute power usage numbers or performance numbers.
A positive article about FX??? You don't see that everyday
finally a decent article about amd fx been waiting for a long time
FX series gets way too much hate and there are hyped up cherry-picked benchmarks of G3258 and i3s in dual-threaded games that get plastered all over the forums to downplay FX's competitiveness in well-threaded modern benchmarks.
Amd please do 28nm bulk 8 module steamroller chip sans l3$ with an fm2+ chipset. Clocked around 4-4.4ghz.
It would be smaller than vishera and be a throughput monster!
But not enough would buy it and it would simply be another loss.
But not enough would buy it and it would simply turn out as a loss.
Who knows man, who really knows the future?
Marketing disguised as journalism. AMD has no new products to generate new review, so they got someone to rereview an ancient product? Probably.
I'm not too sure, most of the R&D is paid for. They'd just have to put the 'off the shelf' parts together. But, I'm not sure there are many FM2+ boards that come with the power delivery that would be needed for a 4GHz+ Steamroller four module part.