AMD Trolls Intel: Offers 16-Core Chip to Winners of Six-Core 8086K

[PaulAlcorn]

AMD trolls Intel by offering its 16-core Threadripper 1950X to winners of the six-core Core i7-8086K.

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[Aldain]

Savage

 

[salgado18]

That was EPYC hahaha

 

[Guest]

So they will give you a chip that costs almost twice as much. Wouldn't everyone take that deal? I'd take it, sell the Threadripper, and then buy the Intel chip at retail. Or maybe take the savings and get one of those pre binned lid removed conductonaught applied ones!

 

[caustin582]

Not sure what there is for them to be so smug about here. The 1950X costs twice as much and has slightly lower gaming benchmarks on average. So what exactly is the message they're trying to convey? That they're willing to throw more money at PR stunts than Intel?

 

[redgarl]

That's the kind of thing AMD needs to do more often. Basically, it is using a baseball bat after receiving a slap.

 

[george.fontano]

AMD's sense of humor is ????

 

[salgado18]

Not sure what there is for them to be so smug about here. The 1950X costs twice as much and has slightly lower gaming benchmarks on average. So what exactly is the message they're trying to convey? That they're willing to throw more money at PR stunts than Intel?

Most people only buy Intel because "AMD is bad/hot/slow" (heard it 5 minutes ago). At least 40 people will have the chance to see how powerful an AMD system can be. Also, note the bolded remark: slightly lower gaming, way more powerful at everything else, that's the message.

 

[plrr]

Seems needlessly disrespectful

 

[bastsofu]

Even AMD wants Intel CPUs!!


AMD is bad/hot/slow

 

[Giroro]

Threadripper isn't way more powerful at "everything else", just workstation tasks that most people never use.
That slight disadvantage in gaming also extends to most other typical desktop apps like web browsing, microsoft office, photoshop, etc.
Honestly if I were to win the 8086 contest, I probably wouldn't even want to exchange it since it's a limited edition collector's item that will sell out and end up worth more than the $750 (and dropping, since its a first-gen chip) Threadripper.

 

[saintrasputintm]

So many Intel Fanboys. Don't drop the ball if you don't want to play...

 

[caustin582]

Most people only buy Intel because "AMD is bad/hot/slow" (heard it 5 minutes ago). At least 40 people will have the chance to see how powerful an AMD system can be. Also, note the bolded remark: slightly lower gaming, way more powerful at everything else, that's the message.

It is absolutely not "way more powerful at everything else." Only applications that can take advantage of all of those cores. You can look at the 1950X review right here on Tom's and see how it gets completely beaten by the 7700K in about half of the workstation, productivity, and compute benchmarks.

And as long as we're making generalizations about "most people" based on our own anecdotal evidence, I'll go ahead and say that most people buy high end CPUs for gaming anyway.

 

[englandr753]

Intel sat on its knuckles to pretend they have a ballsack and released marginal performance gains, multi cpu platforms that cost way the hell more than most of us could afford to pay. I'm popping popcorn as we speak to watch this unfold.

 

[iwan.nadapdap]

For me this is a childish behavior.

 

[Soaptrail]

This is not childish behaivor, Intel trolling AMD with a supposed 28 core processor that is vaporware is trolling, this is funny and awesome for anyone who is eligible to take advantage of this offer. Intel deserves this for their 28 core vaporware stunt!

 

[Soaptrail]

Also i want to know who takes advantage of this. If there is a link to anyone who does take up AMD please provide a link.

 

[artk2219]

Even AMD wants Intel CPUs!!


AMD is bad/hot/slow

You forgot the /s :-/

 

[salgado18]

It is absolutely not "way more powerful at everything else." Only applications that can take advantage of all of those cores. You can look at the 1950X review right here on Tom's and see how it gets completely beaten by the 7700K in about half of the workstation, productivity, and compute benchmarks.

And as long as we're making generalizations about "most people" based on our own anecdotal evidence, I'll go ahead and say that most people buy high end CPUs for gaming anyway.

It gets beaten by the 7700k on half the tests, so if you use those programs, keep your 8086k.

But it is a small monster on the other half. For those who need this performance but could only afford 4-6 core cpus, that's an awesome deal.

The thing is, there are still a lot of people who buy Intel because it is supposedly better, even though AMD has chips as competent as the blue team. That's the PR stunt: hey, we're here, and we make 16 core cpus 😉. And well, that's 40 people out of 4000(?) on the US, it's not hard to imagine that 40 of those will be content creators.

 

[bastsofu]

i'm a gamer and would take the Intel CPU over the AMD if a could choose one for free.

 

[SoFlaWill]

Let's see. 1. Win the Intel CPU. 2. Win the contest to swap for the Threadripper. 3. Sell the Threadripper. 4. Use proceeds to buy 2700X, new B450 mb, 16 gigs ram. What a plan!!

 

[SoFlaWill]

Then I could sell my A4-6300

 

[InvalidError]

Intel sat on its knuckles to pretend they have a ballsack and released marginal performance gains

AMD will be on the "marginal performance gain" soon enough. The huge performance leap from the Buildozer family to Zen is a one-time thing that highlights how severely lacking AMD's previous architectures and won't be duplicated with Zen 2. I wouldn't expect Zen 2 to perform much over 10% better clock-for-clock than Zen 1. Where Zen 2 will get most of its extra performance is a 10-15% clock frequency, lower latency fabric and 50-100% more cores thanks to the 7nm shrink.

 

[FFH]

It's nice of AMD to do something like this. I'd take them up on the offer if I won that i7.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Seems needlessly disrespectful

For me this is a childish behavior.

Intel just massively trolled AMD and the world with their "28-Core 5ghz" chip that was nothing but a sideshow stunt specifically to steal AMD's thunder. Oh and look back at the history of the x86 processor over the years and the massive amounts of anti-competitive garbage Intel has pulled to try and get rid of AMD after they outlived their usefulness.