AMD explains why it put 'Intel Inside' its Project Quantum PC

[Xlucine]

the biggest problem is that the FX series are a decent enough CPU, their performance came at a significant problem - power consumption. in Cinebench R15 Single thread performance the FX 9590 (TDP 225W) was beaten by the i5-4690 (TDP 84W) 110 points to 154, however in performance\$ AMD wins

That's not strictly a fair comparison - it won't be pulling 225W while running a single core benchmark because you're only benchmarking ~1/8th of the die. performance with a multi threaded benchmark & TDP would be a much more accurate comparison

[Kepe]

Fair enough. Though it would be nice if people wanted an Amd cpu in there eh! Make it happen please

"The Sunnyvale based chipmaker says that it has Quantum PCs featuring both AMD and Intel CPUs to address the entire market."

It's in the article.

ZaO said "it would be nice if people wanted an AMD CPU in there", meaning people don't want AMD CPUs now as they are inferior to Intel CPUs in pretty much every way. "Make it happen please" means he wishes AMD had more desirable CPUs available. And that's what I wish as well. Intel has been too dominant, being able to price their higher end products as they please.

[tob5id1]

Fair enough. Though it would be nice if people wanted an Amd cpu in there eh! Make it happen please

"The Sunnyvale based chipmaker says that it has Quantum PCs featuring both AMD and Intel CPUs to address the entire market."

It's in the article.

You missed the point me thinks, "it would be nice if people wanted an Amd cpu...", me thinks he was hinting that AMD CPU's are below par.

[canopus72]

Really like this project quantum design. The shape reminds me of a cylon mother ship (albeit square shaped). Zen will most definitely be an option in the 2nd gen project quantum that will also feature the 400 series 'Arctic Islands' gpu (September 2016). AMD kept a low profile for a long time but they have released 4 excellent products (although Fury tbr 12/07/15).

[will19565]

the biggest problem is that the FX series are a decent enough CPU, their performance came at a significant problem - power consumption. in Cinebench R15 Single thread performance the FX 9590 (TDP 225W) was beaten by the i5-4690 (TDP 84W) 110 points to 154, however in performance\$ AMD wins

That's not strictly a fair comparison - it won't be pulling 225W while running a single core benchmark because you're only benchmarking ~1/8th of the die. performance with a multi threaded benchmark & TDP would be a much more accurate comparison

i was using the TDP as what it would use flat out, and considering that DX12 is going to allow more cores\threads, they will allow CPU's to go flat out, which will increase performance while increasing power consumption. lets face it most of us will be using a PC's for gaming.