3 ms·
Intel made small improvements while the fx from years ago smoked pretty much anything for a tenth of the cost. Intel is overrated. The atom was a piece of junk
by paulie_a 7y ago
Intel made small improvements while the fx from years ago smoked pretty much anything for a tenth of the cost. Intel is overrated. The atom was a piece of junk. The celery was marginally better. And they ditched the Pentium class. I can't remember when they last used its name after the P4 debacle. AMD has consistently been competing at a much better price point. Now they are crushing Intel.
And you admitted bulldozer wasn't as bad as rambus
- LoSboccacc 7y agothat era athlons had lot stability issue and whatever you saved on cpu cost you had to spend in psu to run the thing.
- paulie_a 7y agoA 200 dollar chip and 100 dollar psu doesn't add up to the equivalent 500-1000 dollar Intel.
- LoSboccacc 7y agofx and x2 where _never_ that ahead of performance to be comparable to a twice expensive intel chip.
- paulie_a 7y agoMaybe I got a great deal but it measured 9000+ on cpubenchmark for 300 dollars. Intel equivalent was nearly 1000 for the same performance. Yes power requirements were higher but that's pennies on the dollar.