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AMD's problem for a long time has been power consumption. They have had the performance per dollar crown, but their stuff runs hot. Only place I ever see them i
by api 12y ago
AMD's problem for a long time has been power consumption. They have had the performance per dollar crown, but their stuff runs hot. Only place I ever see them is gamer market and some servers.
- engendered 12y agoAdd that the performance per dollar lead is only if your workload is atypically multi-threaded. Intel has really taken a bite out of AMD's already tenuous market with the "Pentium" variants.
- userbinator 12y agoThis somewhat reminds me of the Netburst era, when AMD's Athlons were in the lead while Intel decided to chase after high clock frequencies with much higher power consumption as a result. Then Intel went back to the P6 to produce Core, and rapidly overtook AMD. I still hope AMD will make another sudden leap like that, to keep the x86 market more competitive, but they seem more intent on keeping to the path started by Bulldozer...
- ewzimm 12y agoBut you're commenting on a press release about how this architecture's main benefit is gains in performance-per-watt. AMD has a reputation for using more power right now because they slowed down to focus on unifying architectures. I think ARM has proved this strategy works in the long term. Everybody knows power efficiency is king right now.