As a tech enthusiast and software engineer, I will continue to buy Intel over AMD until AMD fires whoever is in charge of the disaster called software division and also replaces GUI designers with actual competent programmers.
Which CPU software?? I have a Ryzen with an OCed 2080 Ti and was never happier. I had AMD gpus before and never had software issues. What you're talking about is the 5700XT software issues because its a new gpu. They're solved long time ago. Nvidia software sucks, sluggish and looks like Win XP. Very bad.
AMD software is faster and more modern and had less bugs. My nvidia control panel doesn't reset settings when I click reset. Idle clocks are high until I reinstall the whole driver and control panel.
It has less bugs, thats why the number of bugs in AMD drivers became such an issue that tech forums and reviewers started writing stories about how many customers were returning Navi GPUs in favor of Nvidia RTX cards and how the problems had been going on for 6 months and the problems were now boiling over?
Your nvidia driver has bugs? Have you gone through DDU and a system wipe that AMD owners seem to think is a legitimate way to fix driver bugs? In fact, if AMD has such good software....why do you have an Nvidia card anyway?
i actually went through a complete wipe of my comp, and reinstalled windows to see if i could fix the issue i had with nvidia's drivers, and guess what, still wasnt fixed till a few driver releases from nvidia later. havent had to go to that extreme with my 7970 way back when before i replaced it with the 1060 i now have.
Translation: I will put in random credentials to make my post look more relevant, but I don't have any actual experience using anything but Intel & nVidia since they can do no wrong.
So basically we are back to the pentium, there is absolutely no improvement in process or else, and Intel is just giving you the right to consume exponentially more power for a few percents at most of increased speed, leaving you with no battery autonomy and a hot and loud system.
I seriously hope the 45W AMD are good and that Apple will produce Non-intel Macs. Intel really needs a painful wake-up call.
It's time to forget 14 nm, and it's already time to forget 10 nm.
Ultrabookreview tested an Asus Tuf A15 with Ryzen 7 4800H. It's faster than Core i9-9880H on repeated cinebench R15 runs while consuming 10% less CPU power.
Unless Intel a. includes AVX512 in most/all of those chips and b. pushes software publishers with all might to use AVX512 whenever it could even remotely make sense, they're toast. Outside that, the Ryzen 4000 chips are far better value for the money. The other thing that could also prevent AMD from taking a huge portion of the mobile PC market is if manufacturing capacity and pricing keep the 4000 series mobile Ryzen back. I am set to buy a new laptop this year, and unless unforeseen changes occur, it'll be Intel outside this time!
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vladx - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
As a tech enthusiast and software engineer, I will continue to buy Intel over AMD until AMD fires whoever is in charge of the disaster called software division and also replaces GUI designers with actual competent programmers.Zizo007 - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
Which CPU software??I have a Ryzen with an OCed 2080 Ti and was never happier. I had AMD gpus before and never had software issues. What you're talking about is the 5700XT software issues because its a new gpu. They're solved long time ago.
Nvidia software sucks, sluggish and looks like Win XP. Very bad.
Zizo007 - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
AMD software is faster and more modern and had less bugs. My nvidia control panel doesn't reset settings when I click reset. Idle clocks are high until I reinstall the whole driver and control panel.TheinsanegamerN - Saturday, April 4, 2020 - link
It has less bugs, thats why the number of bugs in AMD drivers became such an issue that tech forums and reviewers started writing stories about how many customers were returning Navi GPUs in favor of Nvidia RTX cards and how the problems had been going on for 6 months and the problems were now boiling over?Your nvidia driver has bugs? Have you gone through DDU and a system wipe that AMD owners seem to think is a legitimate way to fix driver bugs? In fact, if AMD has such good software....why do you have an Nvidia card anyway?
Qasar - Saturday, April 4, 2020 - link
i actually went through a complete wipe of my comp, and reinstalled windows to see if i could fix the issue i had with nvidia's drivers, and guess what, still wasnt fixed till a few driver releases from nvidia later. havent had to go to that extreme with my 7970 way back when before i replaced it with the 1060 i now have.schujj07 - Friday, April 3, 2020 - link
Translation: I will put in random credentials to make my post look more relevant, but I don't have any actual experience using anything but Intel & nVidia since they can do no wrong.Silma - Thursday, April 2, 2020 - link
So basically we are back to the pentium, there is absolutely no improvement in process or else, and Intel is just giving you the right to consume exponentially more power for a few percents at most of increased speed, leaving you with no battery autonomy and a hot and loud system.I seriously hope the 45W AMD are good and that Apple will produce Non-intel Macs.
Intel really needs a painful wake-up call.
It's time to forget 14 nm, and it's already time to forget 10 nm.
psyclist80 - Thursday, April 2, 2020 - link
We are back to the Pentium 4 days aka NetBurst. Pentium 3 was greatJust waiting for the Extreme Editions to show up! Seems they didnt learn the first time.
SolarBear28 - Thursday, April 2, 2020 - link
Ultrabookreview tested an Asus Tuf A15 with Ryzen 7 4800H. It's faster than Core i9-9880H on repeated cinebench R15 runs while consuming 10% less CPU power.eastcoast_pete - Thursday, April 2, 2020 - link
Unless Intel a. includes AVX512 in most/all of those chips and b. pushes software publishers with all might to use AVX512 whenever it could even remotely make sense, they're toast. Outside that, the Ryzen 4000 chips are far better value for the money.The other thing that could also prevent AMD from taking a huge portion of the mobile PC market is if manufacturing capacity and pricing keep the 4000 series mobile Ryzen back. I am set to buy a new laptop this year, and unless unforeseen changes occur, it'll be Intel outside this time!