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- RX 6900 XT
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As I said, the K8, K10, and Bulldozers were failures that for some reason you won't forgive them for but you so easily accept Intel's failings of the last 5 years...
IF in the next 3 years or so AMD is still leading the charge while commanding a significant cost difference then they might be on my upgrade table. For now the easy path forward for me is intel chip.
Razen was the first attempt that AMD made that got my attention since 2006 I am not even sure what K8/10 or bulldozer is I guess they didn't try to hype them. I am in fact glad they are doing something again because Tech advancement has lagged out a bit because of the lack of competition. Does not mean I am going to trust them? Nope at least not yet.
How many of us will be buying Epycs or Xeons?
I used to run Dell Xeon workstations before changing to Mac Pro. I would have built a Xeon Hackintosh but 6 cores was good enough and they seemed much more difficult to Hackintosh since z370 was such a breeze.
If you look at their roadmap, they already had 5nm planned since last year and Zen 3 is on schedule for this year. I don't see any giving up. I see them pushing harder on the accelerator pedal.
Pretty sure their road map in 2005 was not to give up inovating 2006 but they did. In the past a new regime comes in at AMD they start to gain on Intel over a few years then their is a war between the two for 3 or so years then AMD craps out. A decade or so passes and repeate.