Sadly...
An Intel CPU will still be far superior, 'work for watt'.
Mind you, my heavy lifting these days is mostly VMs rather than anything too tight on single threaded performance, so the AMD stuff is still more sensible for me and my workstation.
The A8-3870 is still ticking over nicely in this box, but I think I'll wait till we get past the Bulldozer family architecture before replacing it - the current stuff is getting a bit stale these days, and frankly, I want more than eight cores in my next machine - at least sixteen, and 32gb RAM, for proper multi-VM work at near hardware speeds.
I suspect AMD will allow me that at a substantial saving over what Intel will sell it for, with little real world performance loss.
Steven R
Biting the hand that feeds IT
