He is frustrated with AMD's strategy of not trying to expand their desktop market share. The fastest CPU with the best IPC right now is 12900K and soon, it will be the 12900KS. AMD is just sitting still and letting Intel count their bills. We want a bloodbath. But AMD is doing the sensible thing and increasing profits for their shareholders. Good for them but bad for those of us who want excitement in the PC space.
Is intel actually ahead in IPC? I haven’t paid much attention to intel parts; too hot. The definition of IPC implies clock normalized, so if you run both processors at the same clock, does intel still win? I didn’t think so. I thought they were in the lead for some gaming benchmarks by essentially selling an overclocked processor; pushed too far up the frequency curve where the power consumption gets ridiculous. If that is the case, then that implies that intel has lower IPC. If you mean absolute performance, then stop saying “IPC”. IPC seems like it has become a buzzword that a lot of people don’t know the meaning of.
Also, did this false narrative about AMD not caring about the gaming / enthusiast market come from Intel marketing? I used to work at a place where the marketing guys would get on forums to try to stir up discontent or just FUD with the competition. To me, this is the opposite of what is going on. Intel is the one that kept the mainstream market on 4 cores long after it should have been more. I had a 6 core phone before more than 4 went mainstream in PCs. AMD tried to go 8 core with excavator processors and it probably would have worked a lot better if we had managed to move on from DX11 sooner, but Nvidia had reasons to hold that back. Intel has to compete in the enthusiast market because they can only continue to compete in the server and HPC space because AMD is capacity constrained. They are really not even close. I would say Intel is in third place at the moment, I’d you just consider performance and power. AMD and some arm solutions will perform better with better power efficiency.
It is the case that AMD will allocate parts to the server market preferentially, not only because of the money, but also because of the reputation. If a company specs some machines with Epyc and then can’t get the parts, then that is bad. You don’t want your customers questioning why they went with AMD parts. I suspect some of the backlog is due to covid supply chain issues, but everyone needs to deal with that. Preferring to allocate to server parts is a long way from not caring about the non-server market.
With the current situation; we are going to get an essentially gaming specific part on a platform that was supposed to be EOL 2 years ago. That normally would be something that gamers / enthusiast would be really happy about and yet somehow AMD doesn’t care about gamers or enthusiast? The longevity of AM4 has been a huge savings for enthusiast. We are getting Zen4 later this year, so there isn’t much of a reason to bring out a whole product stack. People that already have 5000 series parts probably will want to wait for Zen 4 or even Zen 5 anyway. Is your cpu really too slow for the gpu you have or can get right now? If AM5 is DDR5 only, then they likely wouldn’t bother releasing it right now, even if they could. It would be too difficult to get boards and memory.
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