• SteakandChickenMan@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        “Zen 3 and Zen 4 are neck and neck”

        They’re not though. Plain Zen 3 and 4 are worse. When you slap a bunch of cache on, then they’re more competitive. That’s not what was written originally though.

        • SkillYourself@alien.topB
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          1 year ago

          Most of the people seething about Gelsinger’s comment fail to realize that a single high cost CPU beating the competition by 5% doesn’t make for a product line up.

          AMD’s client division has been reporting consecutive losses for the past four quarters as a result of their baseline desktop products underperforming, a gigantic Zen3 inventory issue, and not being able to ship laptop chips in volume.