Perhaps you need some actual hands on with Ryzen instead of hopping on the questionable bandwagon.
- 8x only lanes are only a thing on mobile. The Renoir and Cezanne desktop APUs have 16x lanes for the GPU like everyone else.
Sorry, I read somewhere that and author clearly wrote that about 3200G.
- The chipset drivers have only really mattered performance-wise for chiplet CPUs - if you want to believe otherwise that "crapola" is necessary, get your hands on a 4650G or 5600G first? Windows Update automatically fetches the basic chipset drivers just like it would Intel ME firmware, and off you go to the races.
Well, you need chipset drivers, that AMD used to package in catalyst install manager, which was installed and did nothing. And if you have APU, then you need to install APU drivers. That's bearable if you only use APU, but if you decide to use a discrete cards like RTX 2060, you will have AMD Crimson combined with nV's crapola GF Experience, nV's Control Panel. And after removing APU drivers you could never be sure if AMD's software didn't also wipe out chipset drivers. That's a pain.
- "Better control of TDP" just sounds like you haven't comprehended the simple PPT controls that every UEFI affords you, yet you're able to get a grasp of equally simple PL1/PL2/tau?
I'm aware of PPT and some amp limiter. They are okay, but they are only for when you enable AMD's boost. AMD also doesn't have anything like Tau. Also on AMD side you have Windows power plan bullshit with special power plans just for Ryzens, because apparently Ryzen is too cool for Windows. I think that Intel is far better at power usage tweaking and adjustment. AMD is still in FX recovery phase and their technologies lack polish.
- "Far more stable" is a hoooooot take - maybe you'd have some credibility referring to Z490 and Comet Lake (which was largely solid due to nothing being new), but you clearly aren't.
Ryzens are clearly not great there. USB issues, RAM compatibility issues, shitton of AGESA updates. Ryzen has been awful at stability even for AMD standards. And this is the experience of person, who used every single Ryzen gen:
In short, it could be described as sticked to poop that will always remain poop and maybe will get polished a bit by time. Experience on Intel side is literally putting everything together and it works perfectly forever. And that's about motherboards and CPU's, but if you perhaps bought Ryzen machine with 3600 and RX 5700 XT, you were royally screwed with having most unstable modern garbage. RX 5000 series to this day still have black screen issues and it has one of the biggest RTG failure, probably since Terrascale 2. AMD tried to do something with drivers, but tin the end they mostly didn't resolve that widespread problem. I have read that return rate of those cards was around 20%. That's a lot and it pretty much ruined RDNA1. And also made my opinion to solidify that AMD doesn't give an f if they release something barely functional and with major issues. In FX days, some lower end boards were caching on fire due to incorrect specs that AMD provided. FM2+ was generally an incompatibility mess too. Needless to say, I don't trust AMD at all these days, despite owning almost everything exclusively AMD.
And here is this bloke:
Pretty much says that Intel is good at engineering unlike some others and they are good at being attentive to details, unlike some others. Intel has been dominating in mobile and enterprise space, not only because they delivered good performance, but because they delivered strong overall package and big part of it is making sure that clients trust their stuff to work exactly as expected without any exceptions and bullshit. Which is where AMD has been poor at for decades. The only cool trick that AMD has is "we made it faster". People that rely on their hardware, are pleased by that, but ensuring trust is still the most important thing to them.
You and the rest of the Polish people should do something about that. You shouldn't have to go to Germany or ANYWHERE else in the Europeon Urinal to get decent hardware. Long live the Visegrad!
lol People from Lithuania go to Poland to buy food cheaper. That's just how EU works.
