Why does Cyrix suck?

[VirtualLarry]

Since the CPU forum has turned into a (mod-approved?) trollfest, as of late, I didn't want to leave any particular company out.

 

[ShintaiDK]

No such thing as Cyrix. Did you mean VIA?

And then the standard answer would be R&D budget.

 

[AnandThenMan]

At one time Cyrix was quite the innovative company actually, they reverse engineered Intel's processors rather than making them under license, a difficult thing to do.

But this thread will be locked because it's not a bash AMD and troll and insult thread. D:

 

[Idontcare]

Cyrix merged with National Semiconductor on 11 November 1997

Thread is 15 years late :\

 

[AnandThenMan]

Better late than never, the truth must be told!!! :hmm:

 

[Ichinisan]

My first X86 PC was an Acer Aspire with an IBM P150 chip (heard this was actually a Cyrix design).

It wasn't actually 150mhz. By some metric, they distorted numbers to say it would be comparable to a Pentium CPU at 150mhz, but it was actually MUCH slower than my friend's Pentium 133. Probably FPU performance was complete crap. Even Quake (1) was horrible.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, we DO have Cyrix to thank, for the existance of 75Mhz bus speeds on Socket7 motherboards, since some of their CPUs actually ran at a specced clock of 75Mhz, rather than the 66Mhz of Intel, thus affording some headroom to those running AMD or Intel CPUs.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I actually work with two former engineers from Cyrix

 

[sequoia464]

Since the CPU forum has turned into a (mod-approved?) trollfest, as of late, I didn't want to leave any particular company out.

Careful there Larry, they threw the guy off the forums that started the Intel sucks thread.

Just do like I do, copious use of the ignore list. It doesn't take too long to figure out the posters here that have something worth reading and those that just want to bash/defend a posiition.

I found some valuable information by IDC and others in the Vishera thread about RCM that would have been buried otherwise in all of the graphs and charts that are incessantly posted to show that AMD or INTEL does or does not suck. It really gets old.

I set the ignore list for some on both sides of the AMD/Intel cr*p. For me it makes the threads worth reading again.

 

[Zor Prime]

Cyrix CPU's had strong INT performance but their FPU performance sucked pretty hardcore, that's why Quake & etc. would had been a slide show.

 

[Cerb]

Cyrix CPU's had strong INT performance but their FPU performance sucked pretty hardcore, that's why Quake & etc. would had been a slide show.

Were slideshows. I had a PR150+. Upgrading from that to a K6-II was night and day (the K6 was popular enough that most games had 3DNow! support, so its general so-so FPU performance wasn't a problem). Quake was unplayable, on it. Ran smooth as could be on my K6-II.

 

[nehalem256]

Were slideshows. I had a PR150+. Upgrading from that to a K6-II was night and day (the K6 was popular enough that most games had 3DNow! support, so its general so-so FPU performance wasn't a problem). Quake was unplayable, on it. Ran smooth as could be on my K6-II.

Well that is a bit of an unfair comparison given that a K6-II would have been running at 300+Mhz compared to 120Mhz for the PR150+.

 

[USER8000]

The MediaGX was a sign of things to come over 10 years later:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaGX

 

[Concillian]

I actually work with two former engineers from Cyrix

So, what do they do now if they're not engineers?

 

[frozentundra123456]

Since the CPU forum has turned into a (mod-approved?) trollfest, as of late, I didn't want to leave any particular company out.

Why is the space a vacuum?? Because the whole world sucks.

 

[Abwx]

dp

 

[Abwx]

Thread is 15 years late :\

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix

National Semiconductor retained the MediaGX design for a few more years, renaming it the Geode and hoping to sell it as an integrated processor. They sold the Geode to AMD in 2003.
In June 2006, AMD unveiled the world's lowest-power x86-compatible processor that consumes only 0.9 watts of power. This processor is based on the Geode core, demonstrating that Cyrix's architectural ingenuity still survives.




:biggrin:

 

[Idontcare]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix

National Semiconductor retained the MediaGX design for a few more years, renaming it the Geode and hoping to sell it as an integrated processor. They sold the Geode to AMD in 2003.
In June 2006, AMD unveiled the world's lowest-power x86-compatible processor that consumes only 0.9 watts of power. This processor is based on the Geode core, demonstrating that Cyrix's architectural ingenuity still survives.




:biggrin:

Wait, so Cryix == AMD

So now we have two "Why does AMD suck?" threads going in the CPU forum?

The consequences, they will never be the same. :|

 

[Markfw]

Enough, I am locking this too.