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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1151 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 20, 2024

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I wouldn't touch Intel with a bargepole at this point, and I assume you will surely pick AMD next time.

Can you elaborate? Last I checked (year ago maybe), intel still seemed to be the choice for power, with AMD really only preferable for budget / green builds. You make it sound like there’s no contest anymore - was I mistaken before / did something go wrong at intel / did AMD put out new cpus?

I don't have the full picture of what things were like around a year ago, except that for gaming purposes the AMD 7800x3d was definitely ahead of Intel back then. For productivity I don't know. Right now though, AMD is ahead of Intel for all purposes, including raw power/productivity, with better performing and less power hungry cpus. And they have some more cpus coming out in early 2025, which will probably widen the gap. With the current AMD 9800x3d, it's not even a contest for gaming. Something did go wrong at Intel. Their stock is down by around 60% since the start of 2024. They released worse products, and worse yet, there were serious errors in some of them, which SubstantialFrivolity and ThisIsSin have touched on. It looks like there won't be an easy way back up. There's been talk of Intel being bought out and split up etc. I wouldn't go near their stock or their products for the time being.

It's telling that the most popular Intel product is N100, an ultra-low voltage CPU that competes with Raspberry Pi and friends. It looked like Core 12xxx was going to be Intel's return to glory, but they dropped the ball and released two completely shit CPU generations.

Intel has had a problem with chips that damaged themselves because they weren't properly signaling power draw to the motherboard. They put out a microcode update to fix it, but the processors which were damaged can't be fixed. This has damaged Intel's reputation in the eyes of a lot of people who got burned by this bug.

Ah yes, this generation’s “Pentium bug.”

Well, there have been a few of them. There was one in 2011 where the SATA3 ports controlled on the northbridge would cook themselves (though that one was a problem with the chipset, not the processor); then there was Skylake's shit-ton of bugs in 2016 or so (to the point that Apple said 'fuck it' and accelerated their own CPU development). And then are the series of speculative execution attacks that made every older computer 30% slower when the patches were installed (and for some of them, there is no patch, they're just broken forever).

It seems Intel fucks up in a major way every 5 years or so at this point.

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