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I remember a time where AMD and ATI were not one company and the latter was always head-to-head with NVidia. At which point did mediocrity spread from AMD?

geezerjay 9y ago
> At which point did mediocrity spread from AMD? Based on the benchmarks, the $500 AMD Ryzen 7 matches the performance of the $1723 Intel i7 6950x. Is this what you call mediocre? Getting the same performance for less than 1/3 of the price is being mediocre nowadays?
- dmoy 9y ago
  GGP specifically addressed this, no? Broadwell is ~two releases behind (and if you're explicitly looking at an Intel -E chip for cost comparison.... that doesn't make an awful lot of sense given that their E lines are basically always sky high prices compared to other Intel chips).
  - geezerjay 9y ago
    > GGP specifically addressed this, no? Broadwell is ~two releases behind That's entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter if those processors were released last year of in the last century. It's Intel's current and best offer, and the facts speak for themselves: AMD's current offering matches Intel's perfomance while trouncing Intel's in price/performance ratio. > that doesn't make an awful lot of sense given that their E lines are basically always sky high prices compared to other Intel chips). That's Intel's problem. It makes no sense to try to downplay AMD's stellar performance just because Intel does some major price gouging.
- noir_lord 9y ago
  I have a Ryzen 1700 in the desktop I built at new job, it's performance per £ is simply staggering. It's the first time since I got my first i5 (2500K) from an AMD64-3000 I've genuinely been staggered by performance and the desktop at my previous job was an OC'd 3570K. Frankly the Ryzen 1700 is incredible, so much so I'm already planning on building a similar machine for home. All that said though I'm also really impressed with the i7-7700K in the new laptop, the amount of processing power intel has shoved into a laptop is impressive as well. Competition is good, it will be interesting to see what the mobile Ryzen's are capable off.
  - krylon 9y ago
    > I have a Ryzen 1700 in the desktop I built at new job, it's performance per £ is simply staggering. I can confirm that, I bought a new desktop PC with a 1700 for home use around Easter, and on CPU-bound workloads with sufficient parallelism (e.g. video encoding), that thing is just insanely fast. It's a bit of a shame, really, that most of the time it just sits there doing almost nothing. ;-)
    - noir_lord 9y ago
      Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it. I hammer mine though and it handles it with complete aplomb.

geezerjay 9y ago

> At which point did mediocrity spread from AMD? Based on the benchmarks, the $500 AMD Ryzen 7 matches the performance of the $1723 Intel i7 6950x. Is this what you call mediocre? Getting the same performance for less than 1/3 of the price is being mediocre nowadays?

dmoy 9y ago
GGP specifically addressed this, no? Broadwell is ~two releases behind (and if you're explicitly looking at an Intel -E chip for cost comparison.... that doesn't make an awful lot of sense given that their E lines are basically always sky high prices compared to other Intel chips).
- geezerjay 9y ago
  > GGP specifically addressed this, no? Broadwell is ~two releases behind That's entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter if those processors were released last year of in the last century. It's Intel's current and best offer, and the facts speak for themselves: AMD's current offering matches Intel's perfomance while trouncing Intel's in price/performance ratio. > that doesn't make an awful lot of sense given that their E lines are basically always sky high prices compared to other Intel chips). That's Intel's problem. It makes no sense to try to downplay AMD's stellar performance just because Intel does some major price gouging.
noir_lord 9y ago
I have a Ryzen 1700 in the desktop I built at new job, it's performance per £ is simply staggering. It's the first time since I got my first i5 (2500K) from an AMD64-3000 I've genuinely been staggered by performance and the desktop at my previous job was an OC'd 3570K. Frankly the Ryzen 1700 is incredible, so much so I'm already planning on building a similar machine for home. All that said though I'm also really impressed with the i7-7700K in the new laptop, the amount of processing power intel has shoved into a laptop is impressive as well. Competition is good, it will be interesting to see what the mobile Ryzen's are capable off.
- krylon 9y ago
  > I have a Ryzen 1700 in the desktop I built at new job, it's performance per £ is simply staggering. I can confirm that, I bought a new desktop PC with a 1700 for home use around Easter, and on CPU-bound workloads with sufficient parallelism (e.g. video encoding), that thing is just insanely fast. It's a bit of a shame, really, that most of the time it just sits there doing almost nothing. ;-)
  - noir_lord 9y ago
    Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it. I hammer mine though and it handles it with complete aplomb.