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Originally Posted by dirtyferret
anyone else worried how AMD keeps pushing eight core CPUs as "gaming CPUs".
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No, they're going with a new design for their chips this time around so we should be seeing a good performance increase.
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Originally Posted by dirtyferret
they did the same crap with their fraud Phenom II six core units which routinely had the same FPS as their four core alternatives and both where spanked by Intel's new SB dual core CPUs.
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The majority of games coming out still don't utilize multiple cores/threads, hence you see a small or even non exist performance difference in CPU's with different core counts. Now when software that does take advantage of multiple cores and threads it is true that Sandy Bridge and the Core i7 line does generally beat out AMD's line of chips, but it's because there architecture can push out more per cycle. But AMD's chips are more then sufficient for gaming and they generally hit the price for performance sweet spot, so there is nothing wrong with advertising their CPU's as gaming CPU's.