The Evolution of CPU Gaming Performance, AMD vs. Intel

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The Evolution of CPU Gaming Performance, AMD vs. Intel

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[jacobvriesema]

This whole series has been so cool to see. Thanks for going the extra mile as a tech channel. Your content, explanations, visuals…etc. are always top notch!

[JarrodsTech]

It's cool seeing how far behind AMD was in 2012 and then slowly climbing up from 2017

[sopanroy]

AMD's comeback is pretty motivational I would say.

[shinseitaizen]

A great history lesson. Good way to show someone new to tech why AMD became so popular.

[fran]

I didnt realize haswell performance jump was that big, I remember when haswell came out there were a lot of negativity on how its only like a 5% performance bump from IVB.

[CuttingEdgeRetro]

What a journey it's been. For those of us that's been around for even longer in seeing the rise and fall of AMD since the 90s its been a great period of time in personal computing. BUt for this video. I wishes you have also Stuck a Phenom II 1090T in the mix, as those can still outperform the 8350 in some scenarios. But awesome work Steve. Maybe now a AMD'v'Nvidia 10 year GPU history lesson?

[SteffenMeyer]

Interesting to see how the intel graphs are stagnating after skylake while with each AMD generation the progress is clearly visible. Shows that intel didn't expect AMD to come back like that and how 14nm is running out of juice

[Two]

This is such a good video. Everyone talks about Intel's stagnation but I've never seen it laid out this clearly.

[Slvah]

Watching this video made me realise that Steve's voice while reading graphs would be well-suited for radio. A smooth, articulate and calming timbre to listen to.

[APU-iGPU]

Incredible analysis Steve 👍👍

Zen2 architecture was true "Zen" moment for AMD.

Excited to see how Zen3D processors perform 🤩

[FaceIss]

So holding onto my 6700k was a good idea! Hope new CPUs show a larger jump

[FinaRagnarok]

Wow. I currently have a Ryzen 1600 and have a 5600x on the way. The improvement over my 1600 is nearly the same as my 1600 would be over an old bulldozer/piledriver cpu. Crazy how much AMD was able to accelerate their progress in the last 4 years.

[JMartinni]

I upgraded from a Phenom II X6 1090T from early 2011 to a Ryzen 5 2600X in 2018 so I completely missed most of this - and I never really considered Intel given the price premium the CPUs and mainboards usually commanded. Looking at Ryzen 5000 now, suppose if I want to stay in the same price category I'll still be stuck with a six-core ten years later... :/

[jahjahlive]

Blessings from Trinidad. I never make a purchase of any part unless it has passed through the hands of Hardware Unboxed. I commend you brothers for all your hard work, dedication and creativity. Your channel is amazing and tech information will not be the same without it....

[jmv]

I feel better on my aging 6700, I'll rock this rig till it dies, basically no reason to upgrade atm for me.

[greggmacdonald]

I'd definitely like to see Alder Lake added to this data. It could also be interesting to see how running 4 cores of JUST Efficiency cores would do, vs. 4 of P-cores.

[jubayerwasidraiyan]

these must take so long, thanks for these amazing tests steve, actually putting effort into something to make content for us plebs, that's just amazing

[vibhav]

Ooh so that's Monitor Steve's REAL name - CPU architecture progress benchmark series. Got it.

[rangersmith]

AMD certainly needed something completely different after FX, and we all owe a lot to Lisa Su's vision and her development team for bringing Ryzen onto the scene. To all who are still using an FX chip, in the very mortal words of a certain graphics card company CEO, "It's safe to upgrade."

I was one of those FX users, mostly based on the 8-core claim and price, but if I could go back to 2014 (for my first ever build), I'd bite the budget bullet harder and go with a 4770K, as clearly that would have been the better choice, though at a 40% price premium. Ah, the beauty of hindsight! The best that can be said about FX was that the series got many gamers by for a few years, keeping them in the hobby when Intel pricing would have shut them out. But since it did that, it was not a heap of crap. Comparatively weak and inefficient? By any measure, yes. But not a heap of crap.

[martinbadoy]

This video is like one of those history documentaries on the Battle of Stalingrad and how that was the turning point of the war