Want it to be true...
I have been an AMD user for years now. This is being typed on my old workhorse with a Phenom II X6 1090T. Since that chip came out, AMD stuff has been a bit of a disappointment. I have an A10 5800 4 core, 4.3GHz machine here and it is OK, but not great. I also have a couple of notebooks with AMD CPUs and a couple of other boxen all sporting some form of AMD CPU. It is all pretty uninspiring. My old i7 notebook here is not spectacular in this group, but it keeps up.
I have been holding off upgrading my workstation until AMD comes up with something compelling enough. So far it has not and this announcement is not doing much for me either. We will see how it does in reviews when it comes out, but it is hard to see how this will get me to move.
It is a shame how this has unfolded. I had high hopes for fusing the CPU and GPU because in an ideal world you could scale some jobs *way up* by laying stuff off on the GPU. So far, it has not looked promising. AMD has some great ideas, but they are really behind in terms of execution.
I would like to see more CPU cores and higher clock speeds. Although it does not make intuitive sense to me, in practice Intel's hyperthreading makes a lot of difference. I would like to see AMD squeeze something like that out too. I may not be an ordinary user, but I am not exactly exotic. I would really like to upgrade to AMD but am beginning to drift over the dark side for the performance.
Sigh. I am also crossing my fingers, but so far I am a bit pessimistic....