Definitely. The Phenom II was well-priced and did perform a little worse than the Intels but it was cheaper. Vishera when it was new was OK compared to the 3570K but if they go down the 'it'll do if we sell it a low price' attitude again, they will need to replace their lineup more frequently than every 4 years.
They've made new CPU's in the past 4 years, just nothing on the higher end. The problem was that they invested way too much into Bulldozer in the expectation/hope that applications would make use of numerous cores. This was a very forward thinking approach on their part, just suffered poor execution and things that relied on single core performance suffered greatly. This does make their products age relatively well as stuff makes use of those cores, but the underlying architecture sucked. They didn't have the resources to start from scratch again so you see the 4 year gap on the high end now.
Yeah I'm not a fan either. Kinda like how their chips will be SR3, SR5, and SR7. They're quite clearly trying to mimic Intel to some extent, at least in branding. Probably a good thing because unless you pay close attention to AMD hardware you don't have a damn clue what any of their CPU's are but most people have heard of i3/i5/i7.
Seems like a lame ploy to me.
Hey that would look sweet in my iRacing rig
Yeah I'm legitimately "hiding" money from myself in my desk so it's not in my bank account. Outta sight, outta mind and won't hurt so much when I drop hundreds on a platform upgrade.I will not be making the jump.
Mainly because I'm a broke ass student right now... and because I don't really need the upgrade yet.
Damn... if you don't have an excuse to upgrade... I don't stand a chance to justify myself to get the latest gen processors. LOL
You ever mess with OC'ing? My 8320 was noticeably more viable when I overclocked it, even the overclock you can get from a 212 air cooler is enough to be worth the time and effort. Under water cooling and cranked up to 4.5GHz it feels like a whole different chip.
My prediction is that Ryzen will beat the i7 7700k in CPU intensive tasks like rendering while the 7700k will beat Ryzen in tasks that use up to 4 threads like gaming.
What's the basis of your prediction other than blindly throwing a dart?
What he said also implies that games only use 4 threads, which definitely isn't true as of the past few years.
