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As someone who's still chugging along with an FX-8350 and 8gb of DDR3 with a Raptor HDD, i'm really looking forward to my first big upgrade in a few years. Zen FX Cpu, 16gb DDR4, 1tb SSD.
They're just taking so damn long!
I gotta give you the shout out for still having a WD Raptor. Those things were pretty cray back in the dark ages before we had SSDs.
Intel has 8c16t chips, but they cost over $1000 each. If AMD can provide comparable performance at regular i7 prices or the 6c12t chip at i5 prices they'll be WAY more than just competitive.
The thing is AMD doesn't actually want to go bankrupt. There's no reason to assume they wouldn't price their CPUs pretty close to Intel, probably undercut by a small margin, if they had performance similar to Intel. AMD has been circling the drain for years financially, now they actually might have something that can compete with Intel, they would be stupid to not charge almost as much as Intel to maximize profits.
Just for fun, the cinebench comparison in the marketing materials can be extrapolated to mean the Zen 8C is around 5820K.
This is pretty impressive if true, but if AMD requires 8 cores to match the 6 core 5820K they will be starting behind the curve already since Haswell-E will finally be retired and replaced by Broadwell-E this year.