> What's your personal definition of "failed"? AMD may not be the market leader but for the same price, their multicore processors are far better than Intel's o

> What's your personal definition of "failed"? AMD may not be the market leader but for the same price, their multicore processors are far better than Intel's offering. They are not. I talk mainly about gaming performance here, because it's the one thing where cpu performance actually matters for a relevant market. Have a look at http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6... as an example. The i3-4130 (that wasn't even their fastest i3 at that time) as fast as the FX-6350, the FX-8350 slower than the old i5-2500K. AMD has not one processor that can compete with an i5-6600K in current games. It's not like you can't play modern games with an FX-8370, but with that you pay as much as with intel, you get worse FPS and your processor uses more energy. Ah, and you buy into a dead socket. Other criteria for failure: Market share. AMD has a little bit more than 20% of the PC-gaming market, http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/processormfg/ http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/processormfg/. It gets less and less since the disastrous FX started. > Inefficient software isn't a hardware problem. If you want to sell your hardware of course it is. > Why would video game developers spend their resources designing software that take advantage of the available computational resources provided by AMD's 6 and 8-core line of processors if this only impacts less than 2% of the gaming community? Despite all, the FX-6300 is a popular processor. I highly doubt that number. The FX line can't have sold that bad. > But this is by no means a technical failure on behalf of AMD. I'm not talking technique. I'm talking about performance, both in real existing applications and on the market. In both the FX was a disaster for AMD, and I really hope the coming Zen-Architecture can make AMD relevant again. A Intel-Monoculture would be horrible, as is already visible in prices and customer-friendliness of the offerings.