Right, and so were chiplets & IF and yet AMD got there quicker than Intel and ate their lunch. Just because everyone is aware of something doesn't mean everyone can get to it at the same time. There are many reasons why AMD is better situated than Nvidia for MCM at least initially, hence RDNA 3 will smash their cheeks in. Only real question is what they'll do for RT and if they can add FSR 2.0 w/ ML in time for the new gen.
Again, the Ryzen argument with little critical thinking..
I’m on Ryzen since day 1, and upgraded to the 5600x earlier this year. It took 3 generational architectures , 4 iterations
just to get their heads out of the water just to beat Intel by a few % and they did so by also raising their prices considerably to the point where sometimes Intel is a better value now with the lower prices, even more so considering how ram kits for a zen setup are more picky on speed and latency, which raises the price.
This was against stubborn Intel insisting on using their foundry on 14nm+++++++++++ node and jamming integrated GPUs everywhere or at least, offering a version without as a second thought. Also a complacent Intel who did not think competition would ever appear and reduced engineering staff thinking that yearly upgrades with minimal % differences would be their business for the rest of time because AMD was almost bankrupt.
Now I like a good underdog story like anyone, selecting a zen 1 rather than Intel was more like a fuck you to Intel rather than it being more powerful ( and god the first AM4 boards were disasters with memory.. was not a good choice in retrospect), and we’ll get an healthier CPU market because of it, as the dragon Intel seem to have woken up.
Intel
will be dangerous again, and on monolithic, because their foundry finally unclogged but also has TSMC silicon reserve. Their density is even better than TSMC so that will be interesting. Gaming wise at least, I’m sure AMD will be king of 64+ core monsters as these only work with chiplets, but that doesn’t impact gaming/laptops.
But Nvidia ain’t no Intel. They are completely opposite. They didn’t get complacent with what worked, they basically hand holded and carried Microsoft on their shoulders for RT & ML API implementation, they’re involved in virtually all universities that do computer engineering or deep learning for so long, and more specifically CUDA which has been going on for a decade with still no sign of AMD even thinking of an alternative, CUDA is
that deeply entrenched in everything that is work/ research. They are working with and producing a shitload of research papers in collaboration with universities. Their R&D has not been sitting idle like at all. And unlike CPUs which fundamentally has not changed since nearly 30 years, GPUs do and just had a paradigm shift recently where the focus is shifted to support RT & ML and will be supported going forward more than ever.
So please, keep that zen shit comparison for brainlets on r/amd, it doesn’t hold any fucking water.
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