Iv been disappointed with AMD since 2006. Its sad because i would love to have a new AMD build but they seem to be stuck in the ice age.
It because they have lost all of the Nexgen people. Plus went to all automated design tools that cause around 20% loss in performance and 20% more transistors then needed. Its cheaper and faster. They use to do transistors by hand that were critical parts. Makes no sense to save money building a CPU, then lose money/market share selling them because of low IPC.
You know it took Intel 6 years to beat the Athlons IPC. They did it by using the Pentium III and Mobile, came up with the Core 2. Which still today the Haswell is nothing but a upgraded Core 2. But with Sanders putting Ruiz in charge, he just destroyed the CPU team and put them 4 billion in debt buying ATI. How can you design a new CPU die when you lost all the good people and 4 billion in dept. You cant, you end up with the first Phenom which was a disaster and they still haven't recovered.