Intel was king when they came out with core-i architecture (nehalem) and eliminated the front side bus, plus massive OC potential. AMD had nothing to compete. Intel made some improvements on speed over the years, but they mostly focused on reduced power consumption. They got complacent, and AMD finally snuck up and stuck a dick in em.
AMD never was trash. I've been using them for 10+ years because Intel is a shitty company, and nvidia occasionally tries to out-Intel Intel.
They used to have slower top end processors but that was always irrelevant to me because upper mid-range has the best cost-performance ratio and AMD generally beat Intel there.
From what I've read AMD more than caught up in recent years. Plus Intel had a shit ton of security vulnerabilities that AMD avoided.
Even if they weren't currently better than Intel, which I believe they are. AMD has better practices as of right now. The next time I upgrade, it'll certainly be with their hardware.
Of course, I wouldn't mention this normally. But since it's you, I will note that they have a woman as CEO/president. Despite that, not really any pandering from them about that. Though things could easily change, especially since a lot of tech companies will have dealings with China on manufacturing. Except that latter point also applies to Intel.
With the prices on their processors? I'm pretty sure the PCMR mostly uses Ryzen.
Intel was king when they came out with core-i architecture (nehalem) and eliminated the front side bus, plus massive OC potential. AMD had nothing to compete. Intel made some improvements on speed over the years, but they mostly focused on reduced power consumption. They got complacent, and AMD finally snuck up and stuck a dick in em.
AMD never was trash. I've been using them for 10+ years because Intel is a shitty company, and nvidia occasionally tries to out-Intel Intel.
They used to have slower top end processors but that was always irrelevant to me because upper mid-range has the best cost-performance ratio and AMD generally beat Intel there.
From what I've read AMD more than caught up in recent years. Plus Intel had a shit ton of security vulnerabilities that AMD avoided.
Even if they weren't currently better than Intel, which I believe they are. AMD has better practices as of right now. The next time I upgrade, it'll certainly be with their hardware.
Of course, I wouldn't mention this normally. But since it's you, I will note that they have a woman as CEO/president. Despite that, not really any pandering from them about that. Though things could easily change, especially since a lot of tech companies will have dealings with China on manufacturing. Except that latter point also applies to Intel.