Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 40
It comes down to workload. Even without overclocking, Intel has been the single-threaded champ for quite some time, even though they occasionally get leap-frogged by AMD on single-threaded specs. If you have a single-threaded process that has to get done ASAP and power consumption is not important, then this Intel chip is the current top dog. Beyond gaming, there are very many real-world examples of this -- mostly having to so with existing CPU-bound algorithms that are impossible or impractical to re-write in parallel for a variety of reasons.
AMD's 7950X is the current value leader for most workloads. At its price point (street price under $550), you currently can't buy more per-core performance, and you get 16 real cores that are *almost *as fast as the performance cores in this Intel. It's also a lot more energy efficient than the Intel. The 7950X is an astounding value. But its single threaded performance isn't as fast as the Intel, and this is provable. For many people, this doesn't matter -- but for some, it matters quite a bit.
Know Thy Workload.