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Originally Posted by vranac
Revision of Buldozer(Piledriver) should get out Q3(Q4?) this year and I hope it will be much better and competitive with Intel CPUs so you can upgrade later.
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Piledriver is still using the AM3+ socket and even the newly designed 1090FX chipset will lack PCI-E 3.0...though that might be rectified with a future revision.
Even worse, it looks like it won't be competitive, the mobile version of Piledriver (Trinity) has allready been benched and proven to be slow compared to Sandy/Ivy Bridge's mobile offerings.
So it's likely Piledriver itself will be no match either.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5831/a...m-a-new-hope/5
It's Integrated Graphics solution is faster than Intel's, but that's irrelevant to gamers with dedicated graphics cards like us.
So I'd say it's not worth waiting for that.
Think we'd all like AMD to be competitive again but I don't see it happening with Piledriver.
@TonyD, I'm 100% neutral to either company and just look for the best performer or best performance/price, and right now AMD just can't compete unless you want a budget PC.
I Loved my Athlon 700, 1100, 1700+ and Barton 3200+, but after the "Core" design Intel just took over and kept leading the way.
Luckily ATI is still competitive, but even they are sliding downhill now.
I can see AMD as a company get into deep trouble unless they release a winning design next year, preferrably a CPU as that's where the real volume is. They had a massive restructuring quite recently ,then massive delays with Bulldozer which ended up slow and sold bad.
Their marketshare keeps dropping and unless it get's turned around somehow I fear we're headed to a de facto Intel/Nvidia duopoly with high prices and little/slower innovation.
