Re:How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?
by ant6n on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @05:06PM
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Well okay. But they had the same problem Intel is in now: they pushed an inefficient power hungry chip to the limit. So it was cheaper, and performance was only somewhat lower, but it was much hotter and used a lot of power —- so pretty useless for laptops.
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Re:How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?
by Beltalowda on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @07:14PM
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On laptops AMD was indeed not very good; but their desktop CPUs – far more important in the 00s and early 10s than they are today – were pretty decent. That is not to say that Intel also didn't have good CPUs at the time, but (much) more expensive and for people just doing their browsing and occasional gaming on their desktop AMD was a solid (and cheaper!) choice IMO.