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I think bulldozer was just ahead of its time. I am fortunate to have one, and it has aged a lot better than the same-price alternatives from Intel due to the mo
by tormeh 10y ago
I think bulldozer was just ahead of its time. I am fortunate to have one, and it has aged a lot better than the same-price alternatives from Intel due to the more multithreaded nature of e.g. games nowadays. That's not much comfort for AMD, since being ahead of your time is just another way to fail, but at least AMD had vision.
Mankind Divided's recommended specs are FX-8350 or i7 3770. The price difference between the two in their heyday was $100 in AMD's favor.
- merb 10y agoprice was always in AMD's favor. problem is more and more the energy consumption. also the i-series of intel was really really solid and good, at least until broadwell (didn't seen too much skylake yet). that especially lost amd a lot of ground in the server space. and a lot of "high end" gamer favored the Intel i7 series aswell, even when they weren't as cheap as amd.
- tormeh 10y agoThe i7 was a lot better for gaming than the 8350 was at the time. Hell, an i3 was better at the time. The 8350 was priced accordingly. There was no price advantage. What I'm saying is that AMD's design has aged a lot better.
- CarVac 10y agoHow exactly? I see the evidence of that happening with AMD GPUs versus Nvidia, but versus Intel processors? Can you explain?
- AnthonyMouse 10y agoWhen Bulldozer was released, most software only used one or two threads. Which meant that the 8-thread FX was slower than the 2-thread i3 because the extra threads did nothing and it had lower single-thread performance. Now that newer software is using more threads, the old FX gets a big performance boost while the old i3 is only the same speed it ever was.
- merb 10y agoAMD was cheaper (always) not better. You can be cheaper and worse and people will still buy the worse since it's cheaper even if price / quality on intel would've been better.
- tormeh 10y agoYou obviously haven't actually checked the prices.
- milcron 10y agoHow did Intel lose ground with Broadwell?
- clevernickname 10y agoIIRC it took much longer to deliver than expected, didn't improve much upon Haswell, sold in a limited set of SKUs, then was succeeded by Skylake a few months later.