I laugh at AMD's chips. Their hexacore ship got beaten by a Core i5 chip which is a dual core, but does have hyper-threading. Which is embarrassing. I wonder if the Mac Mini beats the quad core. After all quad cores do make a lot of heat. They might need a lower clocked quad core processor for it.
@weinerschnitzelboy You don't buy a 6 core chip if you only use one or two cores. Sure the Core i5 may give similar performance for programs that don't use multiple threads but the AMD Hex core isn't on the same chart when using a program that can use the 6 cores. It is like saying a gun is better then an axe for chopping wood because it shoots faster.
I don't know what stats you're thinking of! Ok, so the hexcore AMD Phenom x6 1090T does lose out on a few (but definitely not all) gaming benchmarks to the top-of-the line intel dual core i5, the core-i5 670. In any review I've seen, e.g.: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/amds-sixcore-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-1055t-reviewed/1 any application that makes use of all of the threads the intel chip (which is not a lot cheaper than the AMD) usually gets only 50% of the performance of the hex-core.
Pretty sure these all ship with PowerDVD. Its been able to play everything I've thrown at it, and it uses GPU acceleration (pretty obvious too, as the CPU isn't under much load at all on even high bitrate 1080P footage which should stress a little Neo).
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I laugh at AMD's chips. Their hexacore ship got beaten by a Core i5 chip which is a dual core, but does have hyper-threading. Which is embarrassing. I wonder if the Mac Mini beats the quad core. After all quad cores do make a lot of heat. They might need a lower clocked quad core processor for it.
@weinerschnitzelboy
Link?
@weinerschnitzelboy You don't buy a 6 core chip if you only use one or two cores. Sure the Core i5 may give similar performance for programs that don't use multiple threads but the AMD Hex core isn't on the same chart when using a program that can use the 6 cores. It is like saying a gun is better then an axe for chopping wood because it shoots faster.
@weinerschnitzelboy
I don't know what stats you're thinking of! Ok, so the hexcore AMD Phenom x6 1090T does lose out on a few (but definitely not all) gaming benchmarks to the top-of-the line intel dual core i5, the core-i5 670. In any review I've seen, e.g.:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/amds-sixcore-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-1055t-reviewed/1
any application that makes use of all of the threads the intel chip (which is not a lot cheaper than the AMD) usually gets only 50% of the performance of the hex-core.
@weinerschnitzelboy
Pretty sure these all ship with PowerDVD. Its been able to play everything I've thrown at it, and it uses GPU acceleration (pretty obvious too, as the CPU isn't under much load at all on even high bitrate 1080P footage which should stress a little Neo).
@Kazmo
Agreed, except with your analogy.
If I learned anything from Crysis, its that its always cooler to chop down trees with a gun.