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It's going to take AMD a lot longer than a year to catch up to Intel in terms of performance. AMD sat on, basically, the same old design for years adding nothing but what, essentially, amounted to compatibility "features". They milked their relative performance throughput and power for too long without really do anything new. (Tying GPU functions to the CPU doesn't interest me in the slightest, especially if AMD's big deal is to go as far as tightly coupling their processors to their new ATI subsidiary GPUs...)

I really don't see AMD's current design crew turning out anything matching, let alone, surpassing, current Intel designs within a year, and probably even longer. Now all AMD has going for it is power use efficiency, but from power consumption benchmarks those are only relevant if you have a server with a great deal of dead time, which is something I certainly wouldn't want to have unless it was some type of server for a small/medium sized office, as at full throughput the two companies' chips are close enough in terms of power utilization, and Intel's throughput efficiency added to that gives them a clear win in a business setting. As to my home machines, I game, and do development and other things at home, so I want the throughput giving another loss to AMD.

Bottom line, even though I haven't really looked at it, I'd hazard that AMD's only real hope for decent sales ATM would be to push their mobile processors.

Beyond that I'm still waiting for Intel's new bus design to show up, which should give them a few more percentage points in overall performance, that is unless I missed it's release somewhere in the last year and it turned out to really be a dud.

@tyrione:
Attention grammar police, you missed something yourself.

Edited 2007-09-11 16:29