• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    When AMD came out with the Ryzen CPU, Intel still had a performance per core advantage, and decent PPW compared to Ryzen.

    In gaming, maybe. In most workloads Ryzen was beating Intel. Shit, their $300-500 8 core models were matching or beating Intel’s $1,700 10 core.

    Comparing 8 core to 8 core, the 1700X/1800X were faster than the 6900K, and used a lot less power. The 1700 was a bit slower but used a huge amount less power.

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      5 days ago

      In gaming, maybe.

      No Intel had a per core performance advantage overall with Skylake, when Ryzen came out.

      Comparing 8 core to 8 core, the 1700X/1800X were faster

      True. But that was because Intel had failed to upgrade their Workstation CPU’s from Broadwell to Skylake.