Yeah until AMD pulled ZEN out of the hat, I would have said it would been until the heat death of the universe.
But the last time AMD competed against Intel like this, was in the days of the Socket 939 Athlon 64 and while it took Intel a couple of year to respond, when they did they gave use the Core 2 Duo and huge IPC gains, so here's hoping competition will make Intel get to work and give us some real IPC gains again.
And if they don't AMD is already quietly bragging about the IPC gains with ZEN 3, and if ZEN 1 & ZEN 2 are anything to go by, there is little reason to doubt them. If they can give use a real world IPC gain per core and tie that to higher clock speeds, we could see AMD capturing the MAME performance crown.
If all else fails, Burn the manual.
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