Cryix 133 mhz

[Dan_D]

first PC i ever build a Cyrix 166. I had no clue it wasn't "good" it played all the games I wanted. Eventually upgraded it to a AMD 233. Still have the CPU but nothing to put it in.

The Cyrix 6x86 PR166 wasn't "bad". It just came out at a time when games started being optimized to utilize the FPU. More specifically, Intel's FPU.

Back then non-Intel CPUs didn't have an x86 license and were more or less made to be "compatible" with x86 software to varying degrees of success.

 

[OFaceSIG]

It's funny how the Ryzen 9000's just came out and they kind fit this same model at the Cryix 6x86s did. Better in business apps and contention creation, yet worse in almost all gaming.

 

[Red Falcon]

It's funny how the Ryzen 9000's just came out and they kind fit this same model at the Cryix 6x86s did. Better in business apps and contention creation, yet worse in almost all gaming.

Until the 9800X3D is released.
This was the exact case when the Ryzen 7000 series released and the 5800X3D was crushing them in gaming as well.

 

[OFaceSIG]

Until the 9800X3D is released.
This was the exact case when the Ryzen 7000 series released and the 5800X3D was crushing them in gaming as well.

I don't know if the situation was exactly the same. The IPC lift from 5000 to 7000 seemed to be better, at least that's how I recall it.

 

[Red Falcon]

I don't know if the situation was exactly the same. The IPC lift from 5000 to 7000 seemed to be better, at least that's how I recall it.

The IPC lift from 7000 to 9000 is also there.
As Gamers Nexus pointed out the main issue with 9000 isn't the lack of IPC, but the TDP limiting that artificially overly limits the output and performance of the CPUs which is unnecessary.