AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench

Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by coldtea on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:01AM (#20233575)

>People are hypothesizing this to be true given that Apple is putting Intel rather than AMD chips in the Mac Pro, and Apple doesn’t usually make dumb purchasing decisions

Apple wouldn't care that AMD narrowly beat Intel for 1-2 chip generations either. They'd care about AMD's ability to produce chips at large enough volumes and keep the pace going forward.

They've been burnt by Motorola before and Intel now, to just jump on a short-term bandwagon.

If AMD manages to keep this up (and ramp up their production) for 5+ years, then they might have a chance with Apple. But again, Apple is more likely to go for their own ARM based chips in 5+ years...

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by lunchables on Friday June 21, 2019 @08:28AM (#20241878)

>Apple wouldn't care that AMD narrowly beat Intel for 1-2 chip generations either. They'd care about AMD's ability to produce chips at large enough volumes and keep the pace going forward.

I think there's no reason to bother switching to AMD if/when they plan on moving to their own ARM based CPU within the next few years.

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