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Gone are the underdog days.
While it was obviously going to happen at some point, it still would have been nice if it happened later. Well, let’s see if Intel improves their behaviour now, since they can’t just assume everybody takes their shit automatically.
Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ<sigh> And I liked AMD so much I bought stock. Þe only hope now is for some RISCV CPU maker to achieve some huge performance improvements; right now, it hasn’t even caught up to ARM, much less desktop CPUs.
*Nexus
Not aure what’s up with AMD, but they are not the only one:
https://www.techpowerup.com/348400/no-ryzen-9950x3d2-for-techpowerup-gamers-nexus-or-computerbase
AMD is now fascist. Not surprised… more corpo profit over-everything bullshit.
Chais
mrbigmouth502I haven’t watched the video, but my lukewarm take is that duopolies suck and having only two real players in the x86 CPU market has never been good. I was happy when Intel re-entered the discrete GPU market a few years ago (I say re-entered because they had the i740 cards in the 90s) because it meant we finally had a real competitor to Nvidia and AMD in that market.
I know ARM is supposed to be the CPU architecture of the future, but man, I wish we had a modern day equivalent to Cyrix or something in the x86 space. More competition is good.
orlyowl
I enjoy Soapbox Steve so much!
In good news, we got a summary of his 9950x3d2 review, which was basically that it’s a ripoff at $900. Unironically, if you’re somehow in the market for a CPU like that, consider either the 9950x3d for productivity and core count, or the 9800x3d for gaming. The 9950x3d2 brings nothing to the table for anyone outside of maybe some niche applications which need both core count and cache size and can afford the latency for data transfers between CCDs.
Or, I guess, don’t buy anything because all the companies suck and everything is unbelievably expensive. Who needs a computer anyway?
I’ve been buying PC parts for my gaming hobby for the last 30 years now. I will not buy any part that is supplied by any of the big companies or the RAM cartel if it’s not an emergency replacement and i cannot source it on the second hand market, until they all get back to servicing the normal people at normal people prices. This insanity has to end at some point, and if not, they will never make a cent from me again.