Is Anandtech becoming an Intel mouth piece

[Ajay]

8086 Intel
80286 Intel
80386 Intel
80486 AMD
K6's AMD
Celeron 300a Intel
Prescott Intel
Core4Quad Intel
Haswell Intel
Ryzen 3 AMD

Thats a three to seven bias for me.

Fun game!

Intel P1
Intel P2
Intel P3 x 2
Intel P3 Celeron (overclocking beast)
AMD K7 x 3
AMD K8
Intel Core 2 Duo x 2
Intel Core 2 Quad 4GHz Q6600 g0)
Intel Quad Nehalem
Intel Hexacore Gulftown
AMD Zen2
+ stuff I can’t remember.

Intel 10
AMD 5

 

[VRAMdemon]

My magic 8 ball said outlook not so good, so bit the bullet and paid a little premium on a 3080ti... I'd wager you'll have to wait a year or two before things drop to "normal"... At least.

Yeah .. It's the sad reality. What I'd be paying as an example of "a little premium" around here and my home state is around the 2 grand mark for the 3080ti. My patience will run out eventually and I'll bite the proverbial bullet.

 

[Leeea]

Is Anandtech becoming an Intel mouth piece

Nope.

Anandtech has always been an Intel mouth piece. No becoming about it.

Pretty sure Anandtech would be delighted to be an AMD mouthpiece to.

They did not hesitate to be a synopsys mouth piece:

Using AI to Build Better Processors: Google Was Just the Start, Says Synopsys

www.anandtech.com

a TSMC mouthpiece:

An AnandTech Interview with TSMC: Dr. Kevin Zhang and Dr. Maria Marced

www.anandtech.com

a Tenstorrent mouthpiece:

An Interview with Tenstorrent: CEO Ljubisa Bajic and CTO Jim Keller

www.anandtech.com

a Cerebras mouthpiece:

Cerebras Unveils Wafer Scale Engine Two (WSE2): 2.6 Trillion Transistors, 100% Yield

www.anandtech.com

and . . . wait for it, :

Computex 2021: AMD's Keynote, a Live Blog (10pm ET)

www.anandtech.com

 

[cytg111]

Yeah .. It's the sad reality. What I'd be paying as an example of "a little premium" around here and my home state is around the 2 grand mark for the 3080ti. My patience will run out eventually and I'll bite the proverbial bullet.

msrp is 1.2K right? When these things hit Europe they usually added another 20%, and I got at ~1.6k~, in a local lottery from a shop that refuses to play the inflation game. Got lucky if you can call it that.. And it had to be the Ti cause it was the only model they had coming in, regular 3080's poof out of stock until ????.

 

[kishpop]

...never mind.

 

[Paratus]

Fun game!

Intel P1
Intel P2
Intel P3 x 2
Intel P3 Celeron (overclocking beast)
AMD K7 x 3
AMD K8
Intel Core 2 Duo x 2
Intel Core 2 Quad 4GHz Q6600 g0)
Intel Quad Nehalem
Intel Hexacore Gulftown
AMD Zen2
+ stuff I can’t remember.

Intel 10
AMD 5

Desktops:
Intel 286-30 - family computer growing up IBM
Intel 486-DX33 - college computer Dell
Intel Pentium 90 - College upgrade Dell
Intel Pentium III 500mhz - post college upgrade - from local computer place
Intel Pentium 4E 3.2Ghz - first self built after finding AT
Intel i7-920 - 2nd build - still in use
AMD 1900X Threadripper 3rd build -current desktop


If I added GPUs,

Radeon Rage Fury 32mb (PIII)
Radeon 9600XT 128mb & Radeon X1950Pro 512mb AGP (P4E)
Radeon HD 5870 1GB & HD7970 GHZ ED 3GB (i7-920)
Radeon Vega 56 8GB (AMD 1900X)

 

[pmv]

What's going on? I don't come to this site to discuss nerdy computer stuff!

 

[ElFenix]

processors bought for actual use and not just to f-around with:

pentium pro
p3
athlon tbird/palomino/tbred/mobile barton (only missing the OG i guess)
opty 165
core2 pentium (had no idea this was an overclocking beast :embarrassed: )
C2Q 8200
C2Q 8400
ivy 3570k
celly 2957U (hp stream mini holla)
pentium g3258x2
xeon 1225v3
ryzen 1700x
ryzen 3600x
ryzen 3700x

laptops are much more limited:
pentium m banias
6100u
5900hs

 

[woolfe9998]

LOL my first PC CPU was a Cryix. Back in the late 90's, they briefly competed with intel and AMD for the PC desktop market before exiting. It was a slow ass CPU.

Can't even remember all the ones I've had since, but there's been around 10 and they're about evenly split.

 

[hal2kilo]

Desktops:
Intel 286-30 - family computer growing up IBM
Intel 486-DX33 - college computer Dell
Intel Pentium 90 - College upgrade Dell
Intel Pentium III 500mhz - post college upgrade - from local computer place
Intel Pentium 4E 3.2Ghz - first self built after finding AT
Intel i7-920 - 2nd build - still in use
AMD 1900X Threadripper 3rd build -current desktop


If I added GPUs,

Radeon Rage Fury 32mb (PIII)
Radeon 9600XT 128mb & Radeon X1950Pro 512mb AGP (P4E)
Radeon HD 5870 1GB & HD7970 GHZ ED 3GB (i7-920)
Radeon Vega 56 8GB (AMD 1900X)

Thank you;. I was racking my brain, trying to remember the name of the alternate graphics chip company before AMD bought it. The Intel/AMD rivalry was nothing compared to the Radeon, Nvidia rivalry IIRC. It didn't help that Radeon promised a lot but never seemed to completely deliver.

 

[ElFenix]

Thank you;. I was racking my brain, trying to remember the name of the alternate graphics chip company before AMD bought it. The Intel/AMD rivalry was nothing compared to the Radeon, Nvidia rivalry IIRC. It didn't help that Radeon promised a lot but never seemed to completely deliver.

ATi

 

[NWRMidnight]

Didn’t he, like, actually go work for Intel for a bit? No idea where he is now. I remember back when he was a junior at Enloe High School getting mad props for his tech zine.

wasn't that what's his face from HardOCP that went to Intel for a short time?

edit: What's his face is Kyle Bennett

 

[woolfe9998]

Thank you;. I was racking my brain, trying to remember the name of the alternate graphics chip company before AMD bought it. The Intel/AMD rivalry was nothing compared to the Radeon, Nvidia rivalry IIRC. It didn't help that Radeon promised a lot but never seemed to completely deliver.

My first graphics card was a 3dfx Voodoo 1. Before there was AMD/ATI v Nvidia, there was 3dfx v. Nvidia.

 

[hal2kilo]

ATi

That's right! Was the Radeon product name after AMD bought them?

 

[UNCjigga]

Thank you;. I was racking my brain, trying to remember the name of the alternate graphics chip company before AMD bought it. The Intel/AMD rivalry was nothing compared to the Radeon, Nvidia rivalry IIRC. It didn't help that Radeon promised a lot but never seemed to completely deliver.

The original 2D graphics rivalry was ATi vs. Matrox. ATi was English Canadian and Matrox was French Canadian IIRC. Matrox all but disappeared once GPUs came on the scene, but they were ahead of their time as far as multi monitor support.

 

[Paratus]

Didn’t he, like, actually go work for Intel for a bit? No idea where he is now. I remember back when he was a junior at Enloe High School getting mad props for his tech zine.

I thought he went to Apple after he sold this place...but, hell, I didn't really pay that much attention.

Anand did go to Apple. I think they went after him for a job after his Apple A7 cpu review.

 

[Paratus]

That's right! Was the Radeon product name after AMD bought them?

It’s been Radeon ever since it was ATi after they dropped the Rage name in the late 90’s early 2000’s.

 

[hal2kilo]

The original 2D graphics rivalry was ATi vs. Matrox. ATi was English Canadian and Matrox was French Canadian IIRC. Matrox all but disappeared once GPUs came on the scene, but they were ahead of their time as far as multi monitor support.

Damn, things I've completely forgotten about. I remember Voodoo cards were big.

 

[ElFenix]

That's right! Was the Radeon product name after AMD bought them?

no, the first radeon was the 7000 series released in 2002. AMD didn't buy ATi until 2006.

 

[ElFenix]

Mach 32 vs. Trio wars, always overlooked.

 

[Ajay]

no, the first radeon was the 7000 series released in 2002. AMD didn't buy ATi until 2006.

Radeon DDR yr 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R100_series#R100
I bought one. It took ATi 6 months to finally work the most of bugs out of the driver. I haven't bought an ATi/AMD GPU since.
Great 2D quality - way better than NVIDIA, but I simply cannot explain how frustrated I got with regular black screen and blue screens. Absolutely terrible.

 

[ElFenix]

Radeon DDR yr 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R100_series#R100
I bought one. It took ATi 6 months to finally work the most of bugs out of the driver. I haven't bought an ATi/AMD GPU since.
Great 2D quality - way better than NVIDIA, but I simply cannot explain how frustrated I got with regular black screen and blue screens. Absolutely terrible.

oh i looked at the wrong date on that article, 2002 was the chipset date

 

[Paratus]

Radeon DDR yr 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R100_series#R100
I bought one. It took ATi 6 months to finally work the most of bugs out of the driver. I haven't bought an ATi/AMD GPU since.
Great 2D quality - way better than NVIDIA, but I simply cannot explain how frustrated I got with regular black screen and blue screens. Absolutely terrible.

Nvidia never had anything compelling when I was in the market.

• The 9600/9800 series crushed the FX series
• My next upgrade was still on AGP and NV with a few far between exceptions stopped making AGP cards after the 6800 series so I went X1950Pro
• The HD5870 was faster cheaper and more advanced than anything NV had at the time.
• The HD7970 GHZ edition was faster than the GTX 680 and quite frankly can still play games like Doom Eternal today at 1080P low.
• Vega was a bit of a miss but I was buying the last time crypto destroyed the GPU market - it was the only card I successfully purchased (went out of stock in 10 minutes)

I’ve got $500 in credit at Newegg and still can’t buy anything faster than a 1660. Maybe next round.

 

[UNCjigga]

Damn, things I've completely forgotten about. I remember Voodoo cards were big.

Prior to the original 3dfx Voodoo, graphics cards had “accelerators” for Windows UI elements, true color, even hardware cursor and font smoothing but that’s about it. I think they had started adding support for Direct3D, but like 90% of the “acceleration” was in software.

3dfx was the first to do geometry rendering in hardware, with bilinear filtering, mip-mapping, basic shading, alpha blending and basic anti-aliasing (geometry only, not textures yet.) Compared to all the other contemporary chips, they made games look smoother and run at higher frame rates. Changed the industry near overnight.

 

[IronWing]

Anandtech tends to soft pitch its Intel interviews but the endless onslaught from the whiny little pussy ass bitch AMD fanboys in the comments more than cancels that out. Anandtech can run a pure Apple article or interview someone from a company that has nothing to do with Intel or AMD and along comes the incel brigade to insert a bunch of AMD vs Intel bullshit in the comments.