Intel made small improvements while the fx from years ago smoked pretty much anything for a tenth of the cost. Intel is overrated. The atom was a piece of junk. The celery was marginally better. And they ditched the Pentium class. I can't remember when they last used its name after the P4 debacle. AMD has consistently been competing at a much better price point. Now they are crushing Intel.

And you admitted bulldozer wasn't as bad as rambus

that era athlons had lot stability issue and whatever you saved on cpu cost you had to spend in psu to run the thing.

A 200 dollar chip and 100 dollar psu doesn't add up to the equivalent 500-1000 dollar Intel.

fx and x2 where _never_ that ahead of performance to be comparable to a twice expensive intel chip.

Maybe I got a great deal but it measured 9000+ on cpubenchmark for 300 dollars. Intel equivalent was nearly 1000 for the same performance. Yes power requirements were higher but that's pennies on the dollar.