So since when did AMD start losing the IPC race?
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Solved by Glenwing,
The first gen i7 and the six-core Phenom II's were neck and neck. Then Intel brought out Sandy Bridge which was a massive improvement... The $200 mid-range i5-2500K was beating the previous generation $1000 extreme edition... AMD didn't have their own leap forward like that though, no response to Sandy Bridge. They came out with Bulldozer which was more or less on par with the Phenom II's they were supposed to replace, Vishera was a moderate improvement but they're still far behind in IPC. They make up for some of it with higher clocks, and the extra cores means they can catch up to the i7's in heavily threaded applications. But yeah, they never caught up in IPC since Sandy Bridge.
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