I really hope Zen has good performance but I will be floored if it manages to beat Intel by much (if any) for total performance, my main hope is it has better price/performance vs.
Sometimes I wonder if Intel really is doing any kind of work on these CPU's.
We are still running just about any high end Intel CPU at or very close to 4.5GHz, and still getting the same kind of temps generation after generation. Yet now, you get a process shrink or even two, and you get maybe 200MHz more overclocking at the same temps as before, and almost the same voltage, even Intel's new transistors (which I think have been changed 3 times since the 2600K) have not really changed this behaviour. I have always wondered why this is the case? It used to be that when we had a process shrink, we could overclock the same but at lower voltage and then get lower temperatures, or overclock higher, and get the same sort of temperatures and voltages as before. Right now, it's AMD's time to make it, or break it, for all of us.Īnother interesting point I would like to rase, is one that nobody, not even you have mentioned (to the best of my knowledge) Kyle, is that despite 6 years of architecture optimisation, as well as process and feature improvements/shrinks, Intel's CPU's are still just as hot and voltage hungry when moderately overclocking as they have always been.
It tells me two things, we NEED AMD to be competitive, and it also shows us the possibility that the current "Core" architecture is simply maxed out, and maybe we will get 5% IPC increase when the "next gen" get released. You really hit the nail on the head by showing us that Intel has only delivered 20-25% in nearly 6 years of millions, possibly billion dollars worth of alleged Intel R&D time.
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