Too many people to quote. Stock are hype. It will bottom once people come into senses. I like competition, but when you let hype blinded you, you lose as a consumer. Buy the rumors, sell the hype not the other way around. CEO will dump the stock on you. I'm no stranger to stock and investing. We need to criticize these companies to keep them on their toes. Intel think they're king in everything and sit idle by and AMD releases tons of new microchip in a short period of time (still couldn't beat Intel in gaming and most of Adobe product... petty). I'd still use Intel because it benefit more for me.
AMD give a good right arm on the CPU department, but if they still can't catch up to Nvidia next gen... I see us paying way too much for way too little increase in performance from both company. Nvidia think they're strong and they too sat on that aging microchip architecture. I use Nvidia because it's perform better with streaming hardware and partner with more game company than AMD. They even have the RTX Voice which I started use often. AMD don't have anything to offer other than "we have a slightly cheaper offering".
The ZEN generation of CPU's is a bit different one then we are used to. Yes the single core instruction performance has increased significantly, but the first gen was'nt any much faster then then Intel's. It took a few iterations, tweaks and changes in order to get it right. They still done it right because on multithread AMD just knocks the oblivion out of Intel in almost every way, by a rough 1.5x factor or so. Anyone needing the raw CPU horsepower is always pointed to AMD now and frankly, i'd like to have a Threadripper myself too, a 3950x as well does the job perfectly fine either.
The CPU's became very efficient, the motherboard stacks was excellent, i.e you can actually plant a high end AMD cpu onto a 50$ board now these days, that was different with the FX era. You got the wrong board you where assured your VRM's would be set on fire. Remember this is a vendor issue and not AMD's really. AMD puts out a TDP for it's CPU and it's up to a vendor to make it work. Its just that AMD has raised the bar on standards for any vendor who creates a motherboard with a AMD chipset. The drivers as well where excellent, and the support, really you bought a 3x0 generation motherboard and you are assured to use it up to the 3950x which are 3 iterations of the original zen. Cant say that for intel.
AMD has done a great job really and changed their name in a positive way. The few complaints you see here and there are mostly users who dont know what they talk about or let alone did a proper investigation on what the actual problem is or was. Since the K7 Slot A 600Mhz ive stick with AMD, just because it was a better product back then and it is still now. There's so much you can do with it. The turbo'ing feature just overclocks it out of the box, if your cooling allows it and you can just focus on the things you do.
I think we're at a era we dont have to switch CPU's that often anymore. Programs and games are getting more out of more cores. Storage these days is led by NVME SSD's with speeds up to 5000MB p/s (if you can ever utilitize it on normal desktop usage). Memory is bought at bulky and affordable pricing, i.e 64GB was unthinkable 10 years ago. A motherboard these days carries so much features you dont need to head out and buy a seperate NIC, Soundcar or any of that anymore. We're getting so much more value in comparison then 10 to 30 years ago.
If AMD was'nt there, ya'll still be at dual or quad core being sold with huge margins and profits from Intel. Intel did have a good product on paper for many many years but not anymore. And their security is a swiss cheese. You see the enterprise being hurt the most with all these patches applied that could hamper the performance of up to 45%. If you arrange a set of servers or machines you calculate the performance your getting for the money. And up to -45% decrease due to security patches is'nt a good thing. Swapping board(s) every new generation either.
AMD brings you far more for the money. And RDNA2 will crush that competition. 5700XT was just a engineering toy to play with. it succeeded. Now it's big brother is as we write being designed, baked and put out for consumers and enterprises.
