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Originally Posted by wedge;15282439
Deneb/Thuban processors are the last products from an architecture more than 10 years old.
By that logic, Sandy Bridge is over a decade old.
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People are asking why AMD didn't just die shrink and add on 2 more cores... Don't you think they thought of that? It wasn't going to work. If they could snap their fingers and make Phenom II's faster, they would have done it by now. Those processor's have hit a wall, and they can't go any faster.
Bulldozer is picking up where Phenom II left off. It obviously has way more performance potential than is currently seen (just look at the transistor count). If they can follow their roadmap for the next few years, then good things will come from this.
Here's the problem with that...
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People are asking why Intel didn't just die shrink and make it dual-core... Don't you think they thought of that? It wasn't going to work. If they could snap their fingers and make Pentium III's faster, they would have done it by now. Those processor's have hit a wall, and they can't go any faster.
Netburst is picking up where Pentium III left off. It obviously has way more performance potential than is currently seen (just look at the transistor count). If they can follow their roadmap for the next few years, then good things will come from this.
And remember, Intel had a WAY higher R&D budget, and yet they still couldn't make it work long-term...
Sometimes a whole new architecture isn't the best way to go, and instead it's better to continuously refine what works, AKA the Pentium 3 to Pentium M to Core Duo and beyond.
You don't always need a revolution if you can just keep evolving.
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Originally Posted by Dmac73;15282236
Also, you couldn't add more cores AND clockspeed to Phenom 2, among other issues with that. Straight from *chew.
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Originally Posted by noak;15282260
You just can't slap extra cores to a CPU and call it game.
I think you guys need to check Thuban's current IPC against Bulldozer again, not to mention the IPC improvements used in Llano. Who said anything about clockspeed?