[citation][nom]zachusaman[/nom]"quality processors" not really, the processor division is really lacking in quality, but they make up for it in price for the most part... right now, the AMD processor divisions best goal is simply keeping intels prices to a semi decent level.[/citation]
take a phenom II and an i7, in most applications the i7 is well ahead of the phenom, but keep in mind we are talking about seconds, not minutes the difference between 30 seconds and a 1 minute encode on a consumer level is negligible. but the cost of the i7 is about 300$ and the phenom II is about 100, for the i7 to be fully worth it it would need to be 300% better minimum (my math is a 100$ phenom x 300% = 300$, i may not be saying it right but that's what i mean) but in most cases, its only 2x faster, many coming down to a 1.5 level.
i don't want to get onto this topic here, but i did.
[citation][nom]richboyliang[/nom]6990 costs $699.0, anyone got a guess for the 7990?[/citation]
well id i'm thinking right and reading right, the die size on these things are larger than the 6990 so in all likely ness it would cost more than it.