Is it me or do you also feel let down by AMD in terms of APUs. I mean here we are a hell of a long time after ATI was taken over and the bold claims of APU’s coming to dominate and bring AMD to glory. Ryzen is only IMO almost evenly matched to intel because of price and more cores. It’s still slower in games where clock speed is the king. It’s still overall less attractive to me if I was faced with an 8 core 16 thread intel equivalent processor only slightly more expensive.
Why hasn’t AMD really thrown a monkey wrench in there like they Started 5-7 years ago with the APU route? The APU’s are let’s be honest turds still. Intel’s attempt is diarrhea. Both smell like shit just one is at least a solid turd and the other is just a mess.
I expected Performace on APU’s to be matching low to mid tier standalone cards by now. I also expected crossfire would have been worked out and work seamlessly boosting existing and discrete gfx by several percent above just apples to apples and to Nvidia give AMD a home advantage.
This would have been a one two knock out punch for AMD. Intel suddenly losing the value proposition of having a faster CPU meaning the world.
500-700 dollar amd APU closely performs against i7’s but includes a mainstream GPU. Then add a top tier AMD GPU with crossfire to dominate Nvidia in that price range. 8/16 or 16/32 c/t
So you now have a
700$ win for amd
And another 700-1000$ gpu win
Combined best intel/Nvidia combo
Also beats AMD/Nvidia combo again
This doesn’t just win the gaming argument. This win for any content creator they needs to transcode or encode. Compile, or any other work a workstation or gaming pc may do.
End rant... discuss...
Why hasn’t AMD really thrown a monkey wrench in there like they Started 5-7 years ago with the APU route? The APU’s are let’s be honest turds still. Intel’s attempt is diarrhea. Both smell like shit just one is at least a solid turd and the other is just a mess.
I expected Performace on APU’s to be matching low to mid tier standalone cards by now. I also expected crossfire would have been worked out and work seamlessly boosting existing and discrete gfx by several percent above just apples to apples and to Nvidia give AMD a home advantage.
This would have been a one two knock out punch for AMD. Intel suddenly losing the value proposition of having a faster CPU meaning the world.
500-700 dollar amd APU closely performs against i7’s but includes a mainstream GPU. Then add a top tier AMD GPU with crossfire to dominate Nvidia in that price range. 8/16 or 16/32 c/t
So you now have a
700$ win for amd
And another 700-1000$ gpu win
Combined best intel/Nvidia combo
Also beats AMD/Nvidia combo again
This doesn’t just win the gaming argument. This win for any content creator they needs to transcode or encode. Compile, or any other work a workstation or gaming pc may do.
End rant... discuss...