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Keeping Score: Has AMD Stopped Screwing Up? (www.techspot.com)
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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

On the CPU side, they've had an excellent execution, even before Intel started to lag in and around ~2020 or so.

I was building a PC in mid 2018 and I went with a Ryzen 7 2700. Sure ST was lagging behind intel, but you got decent ST performance and an 8 core CPU for the equivalent of $330 USD or so.

At the time, on the intel side a comparable SKU would be the i7-8700K, but that was equivalent to over $400, with moderate ST uplift and only 6 cores. From what I remember, motherboards were also more expensive for Intel at that point.

On the GPU side, I think the first time AMD has stopped screwing up was with the 9060/9070 series. Thus are compelling SKUs relative to Nvidia's 60 and 70 series of GPUs.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I'd argue the 9060 and 9070 are less AMD not screwing up and more Nvidia setting records for screwing up. The 5060 and 5070 are wastes of silicon that are out competed by Nvidias own hardware nevermind AMDs offerings. The 9060 and 9070 are not bad GPUs, but they're not really good either.

If Intel can close the performance gap with AMD while also maintaining their price points we might see some genuinely good GPUs as AMD is forced to compete with someone (Nvidia isn't really a competitor, AMD isn't even attempting to compete at the high end, and Nvidia refuses to compete at the low end). My only fear in this scenario is that AMD does the same thing they did previously when they struggled to compete with Nvidia and just exits the GPU market entirely.

It would be truly ironic if we ended up in a situation where AMD is the dominant CPU manufacturer, Intel dominates the budget GPU market, and Nvidia dominates the market for people with more money than sense.

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