AMD counters Intel's 8086K sweepstakes countered by Threadripper "trade" offer

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AMD counters Intel's 8086K sweepstakes countered by Threadripper "trade" offer

AMD's offering a 16-core processor for your puny hex-core.



Read more about AMD's Threadripper Exchange Sweepstakes.

 

[ThunderPrat]

Oh dear, Intel are really taking a thrashing this generation.

 

[cj09bruno]

this is hilarious, what a great idea

 

[ImprovizoR]

LOOOOOOOL! That's just masterful. Well done, AMD.

 

[Kei]

I'd almost say it'd be worth buying an 8086k when you really wanted a 1950x as it would be a cheaper way to get one. Shame it's just 40 parts & in the US only.

Reality is, most buying an 8086k are not going to want the threadripper as it's slightly slower than a normal AM4 part if used solely for gaming.

 

[Dicehunter]

For productivity this would be great but for gaming a 1950X is not exactly a good chip, I've seen a lot of benchmarks showing the 1950X severely holding back a 1080 Ti at various resolutions.

 

[AlienALX]

Master stroke. This is brilliant !

 

[RobM]

Love it, way overdue to have some competition and rivalry in the market.
Now we just need it to happen with GPUs

 

[Dark NighT]

I love amd for doing this, its such a snarky little thing to do and it plays well with intel's lack of progression they pulled on us for ages.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

I find it extremely childish.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I find it extremely childish.

I find it humourous

 

[Warchild]

I find it extremely childish.

IT is very petty. Much like their commercials on destroying Nvidia GPUs. However it was very well done, and great publicity/marketting for them.

Petty or not, that is how competition stays strong.

Intel responds. Oh the humor

 

[AlienALX]

I find it extremely childish.

It's funny, that is the whole point. However, in a way it's quite serious. They are offering us, the consumer, twice as many cores in a CPU that is light years ahead in terms of overall grunt and multi threaded power.

Who wins? we do. And you're complaining lol.

 

[Warchild]

It's funny, that is the whole point. However, in a way it's quite serious. They are offering us, the consumer, twice as many cores in a CPU that is light years ahead in terms of overall grunt and multi threaded power.

Who wins? we do. And you're complaining lol.

Based on Intels little tweet. I think Intel and AMD are just having some light hearted humor. Maybe Raji is involved here with a few friends/ex-colleagues of AMD

 

[Dicehunter]

It's funny, that is the whole point. However, in a way it's quite serious. They are offering us, the consumer, twice as many cores in a CPU that is light years ahead in terms of overall grunt and multi threaded power.

Who wins? we do. And you're complaining lol.

For productivity yeah it's ahead but for gaming the 8700K is still performance king if you want to squeeze every last frame out of your GPU, I've seen plenty of benchmarks showing the 1950X severely holding back GPU's even at 3440x1440, My own 1800X, Same die/core as the 1950X, Even at 3440X1440 would see the GPU running quite frequently at only 70-80% utilisation.

 

[AlienALX]

For productivity yeah it's ahead but for gaming the 8700K is still performance king if you want to squeeze every last frame out of your GPU, I've seen plenty of benchmarks showing the 1950X severely holding back GPU's even at 3440x1440, My own 1800X, Same die/core as the 1950X, Even at 3440X1440 would see the GPU running quite frequently at only 70-80% utilisation.

If I got a 16 core TR for less than £400 I would be sooooo happy lol.

 

[Dicehunter]

If I got a 16 core TR for less than £400 I would be sooooo happy lol.

I could see you coming up with very creative uses for all those cores ^_^

 

[Meladath]

I could see you coming up with very creative uses for all those cores ^_^

Or he could sell it. Or use it in another project.... Would be worth more than what he traded for it.

Screw intel. Years of pure stagnation, this is exactly what they deserve.

Personally I see absolutely no reason to buy an intel CPU for myself. I play at 4k, so it makes absolutely no difference to me the miniscule single core performance increase. I would prefer more cores. It doesn't even need to be pure creative work, everything bar certain benchmark scores/not 4k gaming is better or on par so personally I would rather vote with my wallet.