That's a lower power 4-core vs a higher power 8-core. I'd bet money Intel releases a high end 8-core around the same time as AMD releases zen so they don't "win" on top end performance (around 20k on that benchmark). It will be good to see AMD pushing the higher end Intel chip prices down. I have always stuck with AMD because at the ~$100 range for general computing they have always been the best bang for the buck. Looking forward to moving an ~8k chip by this benchmark when zen starts competing.
I agree with your assessment. I'm running AMD right now and it may not be "as good" as Intel but it is not the bottleneck in my system. I can do everything that I want to do for an affordable price.
> I'd bet money Intel releases a high end 8-core around the same time as AMD releases zen so they don't "win" on top end performance (around 20k on that benchmark).
The rumour is the 6950X (the top-of-the-line Broadwell "enthusiast" chip) is going to be a 10-core part. And I suspect most people going for the more-than quad-core parts will take as many cores as they can get.
Yeah, it won't be pretty on the top end for AMD. But at least we will get to see those high end chips from Intel when AMD puts out something competitive. Intel has been treading water and raking in the cash on the high end for a decade without any decent competition from AMD.
