Jumping AMD SHIP!

[Alberto8793]

I dont think the green giant really gets it. We are tired of this shitty Phenom II line, i have been a fan boy since the frequency races, but this is ridiculous, all they do is push dates back, i have been eyeing the lucrative line of Sandy Bridge and have considered jumping ship and getting one, only to hold off, thinking ill just buy bulldozer, but at this point july to september is just ridiculous, insulting, and their inability to even provide us with a baseline, some damn performance numbers, sickens me! Everybody near the plank! Im jumpin' ship!

[Tetrium]

Here, have a life vest...hope you like the color!

[Neon]

Have a pleasant jump. Don't hit your head.

[gshv]

It seems to me that AMD wanted to do too much in their attempt to catch up with Intel. They have new Bobcat and Bulldozer micro-architectures, both using new technological processes, and they also plan to release processors with Llano core (die-shrink of K10 micro-architecture). So far, Bobcat was a success. Llano seems to be on track, although its performance could be not much different from current Athlon II CPUs with cheap discreet video card. They delayed Bulldozer consumer chips, but they will launch Opterons on time.

Compared to AMD, Intel uses much more cautious approach, and they don't introduce new microarchitecture and new process at the same time. Even then, they had infamous SATA defect earlier this year, and Ivy Bridge was delayed by two or three months. So, don't jump the ship yet.

Gennadiy

[Buck59]

I was a huge fan of AMD from almost day one of my computer interest. I learned early that AMD had a comparable product to Intels but at a much cheaper price. The difference in speed was almost minimal and I was always about a year behind the newly released chips anyway so it didn't really matter to me then... My Intel fancy happened due to my sons desire for faster and better video performance in his on line game playing. It just seemed that the performance difference between an AMD and an Intel setup was huge. With the AMD setup, crossfire and all the other goodies the system was laging no matter what I did, so I built an Intel system and in being fair I used the fastest Intel chip I could get at the time an i7 970 with dual nVidia cards in a SLI config. Right from the start the system out performed the AMD rig with no overclocking, custom drivers or anything. That system made me rethink my computer values, I thought why should I continue to buy a cpu from a company the continually compares itself to Intel, one that continually tries to keep up with Intel, and lastly one that continually pushes back their promised releases and is terrible at managing the technologies they do release. So, I have "jumped ship" as you have put it as far as my personal and my families computers go. As for my customers, they can make their own choices and when asked I will tell them to just compare the two boats!

Buck59