This thread is not about vague predictions of Sandy Bridge collapsing under the weight of the mighty Bulldozer, but rather it's about "Bulldozer plowing through Sandy Bridge." Something I doubt will happen. It's very likely that AMD will have Bulldozer parts that will compete with at least some of Intel's offerings at certain price points but that's a pretty vague prediction. Your statement is based on your perception of AMD's product history, the same as mine. Bulldozer could be a bigger flop than SyQuest EZ-135 drives, the Cyrix MII or the Sony Mini-Disc. The truth is that you don't know the future either. You know for sure that AMD will be able to continue to compete on a price / performance basis? Wow that's a pretty bold statement. Yet you know? I need to ask you for next week's lottery numbers then. This is hilarious given that "no one knows how Bulldozer will fair" in comparison to Intel's offerings. I know intel has an awesome amount of resources, but still, amd should easily be able to pull 20% across the board over k8 especially with the 4 years it took for them to design k10, and if they wanted that market share and actually be able to call their product an innovation, k10 should have been at least 15+ superior to conroe across the.
And when it is released, I can guarantee it will have very similar performance to what ever Intel product it is priced comparatively with." And taking in consideration that all AM2 boards should support the AMD K10 processor it may be profitable later Ok, so basically I've been wanting to upgrade long since last year and I just read. No one knows how it will fair in comparison. This is pretty funny: "You don't have a clue. They more or less happened with the Athlon. There are some periods where that wasn't the case but generally speaking, those periods are few and far between. For the bulk of that time AMD has always taken a back seat to Intel as far as performance goes. However I've got 15+ years of experience working with computer hardware and I'm well aware of how history has played out between Intel and AMD for the last 20 years or more. I realize that Bulldozer is a new architecture.