OT: THG admitd amd is better than intel?!

[theholylancer]

wow.....


http://www.twitchguru.com/2006/01/12/how_many_cores_do_you_need_to_be/page3.html

read the part about

You might be asking, "What is the cause for this disparity among gamers?" In November, we published an article testing all consumer processors from the Intel Pentium 4 (Northwood) 2.0 GHz and AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1.4 GHz single core processors all the way up to the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (Smithfield) 3.2 GHz and AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.4 GHz dual core processors. Of the 28 tests, only 8 of those were won by an Intel processor, and of those 8 victories, 7 were in synthetic benchmarks leaving only one real world application victory. Combine this with a price point that is attractive to performance-hungry but budget-limited gamers, and AMD becomes clearly the way to go. Even with the debut of Intel's 65 nm process and the Pentium D 900 series added to the lineup, there wasn't a major improvement in the situation.

In our latest tests Intel improved their standing by winning 13 of the 32 tests, but that still left AMD winning the majority. The upper echelon of hardcore gamers will pay over $6,000 for complete systems, but the average gamer expects performance within a budget, and therefore depends on the price for performance value they get from AMD.

now where is all throse people saying that intel is better atm?

(meltie and the new TheMaster where are you?)

 

[ChipDeath]

The upper echelon of hardcore gamers will pay over $6,000 for complete systems, but the average gamer expects performance within a budget, and therefore depends on the price for performance value they get from AMD.

They are doing their best to imply that the absolute BEST available gaming system is intel-based there... They couldn't really have been any more intel-positive there, in the face of the evidence...

 

[RichPLS]

Heck, a few months ago, it was looking like the last half of 2006 intel would turn the tides on AMD...With the FX-60 and M2's FX-62 and X2-5000 coming, it seems that AMD is going to fight the good fight!

 

[ChipDeath]

Well, looking at the crazy overclocks that people are getting out of those opterons, they obviously have a fair amount of silicon lying around that can easily keep up with whatever intel does with scotty. They have plenty of headroom, but don't need to use it, whereas Intel have little to none, and quite badly need some....

I don't think we'll see intel back out in front with anything netburst-based now. They need to hurry up with the P-M based stuff.

It's a shame, because if it was a closer competition then we'd have faster chips for less by now (from both manufacturers).... But then looking at how your average 3200+ Venice overclocks we do anyway :mrgreen:

 

[slvr_phoenix]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

It's not that surprising that they finally admitted it. I mean how long can one go on ignoring the blatantly obvious? Heh heh.