martinrox1568

So you are saying once ssd's cheapen down to hdd prices, you'll stick with the tried and tested harddrive? Because I don't know whats so trusty about hard drives. They are many times more likely to fail than ssd's even though there has been decades to perfect hdd's. It doesn't matter if you've had a hard drive that lasted 13 years. People yell at back blaze for their lack of sample size, but yours right now is 1.

No not at all. HTC's logic was that phones' sensors were way too small for 20+ megapixels and that the light particles were being split up into multiple pixels, so why bother. Honestly it was kind of a marketing campaign as an excuse to use a cheaper sensor. And it didn't work because they forgot phones need digital zoom and the second you blow the photo up to 2x the size it looked like crap. However in professional photography, camera sensors can be much bigger since they don't have to fit in a tiny phone so the megapixel thing doesn't apply. The reason that this sensor has such a small megapixel count has something to do with the extremely high iso, and the fact that at high iso a lot of noise appears. Also, since this is a professional camera, zoom lenses can be added and there is no need for digital zoom and considering 1080p is only 2.1mp this camera is more than sufficient

You just said it doesn't matter if it is a phone. That was the whole point of this discussion. But the ipod has a better camera, better performance, better storage(please don't mention microsd; it has crap read/write speeds unless you spring for a $70 one. And there's a whole lot of issues with all current android versions and installing apps onto the sd card), a better screen(I've seen the iphone 5 and they use the same screen and its an excellent display), better wireless with a/c support, and a messaging service people actually use, imessage. And for app support, sure both platforms have the same apps, but almost every single time apple's applications have extra features, or run smoother or better. Take snapchat or instagram for example. Hell even some google apps are/were better on ios first. Remember the whole google apple maps fiasco? well ios got the new app first then after a couple months made its way to android.

You are going to have a much better experience on the ipod touch 6(or w/e this new one is) than the moto g for less money too. It has a much better display and processor that is atleast twice as fast as the one in the moto g along with better 3rd party app support. And this is coming from someone who uses Android daily and love it

yea I completely forgot the 9590 came out of the box at 4.7ghz. For some reason I thought it's clockspeed was in the 4ghz range. I know IPC has nothing to do with clockspeed. I just thought for a split second that the 4770k and the 9590 had comparable frequencies

I just feel that AMD is no where near the stability or the features Intel can provide, which are really needed in the workstation market. But considering most peoples workstations are just a 5820k with an x99 motherboard, and a 5820k is just a 4670k with 2 extra cores and some cache, and that the new zen cpu's should offer similar IPC to haswell but with 16 cores, zen might actually be an excellent alternative

Sorry, I completely forgot that the 9590 came overclocked to 4.7ghz. In Cinebench and passmark it was around 20% slower than a 4670k. Then I'm guessing the 8350 would be around 20% slower than that, making the 40% IPC zen would offer on par with haswell in IPC

Why? A xeon would be slower than any x99 cpu in gaming, and that's really all we care about

The 4670k is 20% faster than the 9590 from AMD in single threaded workloads. 40% increase in IPC would make it far better than what Intel is currently offering

I hope you're joking and that you dont actually believe that

That just sounds ignorant, and on the verge of racist. A different language has nothing to do with how legitimate it is. English isn't the official language of the world

Hey if you can afford a BMW you can afford Richard Hammond's Hazmat suit

Why are people hating on this? Rebrands aren't that bad. Its now a lower tier card with a lower offical price which means in 3 months the 390x will likely cost $250. Thats insane value, and 2 of these will destroy a 980 for the same price. Its like buying either a used 30,000 mile BMW for $15,000 or buying a base price ford fiesta for $17,000

The funniest part of all this is that the 280x should be faster. The 280x was a 7970ghz edition which was really a 7970. They're doing this because they dont want 4 year old hw as their new flagship even though the new card is slower

I haven't seen such a bottleneck with a 3 or 4 290x's with a 9350. Todays games are much more limited gpu wise. What people don't realize is that once you start ramping up graphics settings and resolution, the cpu which usually handles physics or ai, isn't working THAT much harder than it would on lower settings.