I don’t hate Intel, it’s more like I view them with a healthy suspicion. The type of healthy suspicion one should have for just about any for profit company.
That looks good on paper but it's a false equivalency. I'll explain:
- I view AMD with a healthy suspicion because of what they
could do.
- I hate Intel because of what they
have done.
Intel (and nVidia for that matter) have committed blatant acts that essentially said "FAH-Q" to consumers (over and over and over again). I am a consumer and if a company wants to treat me like that, I'm not enough of a wuss to continue supporting them because I have far too much self-respect. I will hate them and I will refuse to buy their products, period.
While I was very impressed with the first AMD RyZen processors, there was no way I was going to buy one with my own money for the purpose of my own use case. The second Gen RyZen processors showed a promising upward trajectory and by the time the third Gen hit the market I was willing to put my money into it.
I don't know your specific use-case but I'm sure that it's reasonable.
I view Intel Arc GPU’s similarly. I’d like to see a third contender in the GPU space that is reliable.
See, the thing with Intel is that, having seen their actions in the past (from the other side of the counter when I worked for Tiger Direct), I see them as just another nVidia. I know that they don't
need my support because they're already rolling in it. Speaking of rolling, that's why I always roll my eyes when I see articles titled "Intel is in big trouble!" or something like that.
nVidia has been pushing their luck in a number of ways and their prices. AMD has their GPU related issues too.
AMD's GPU-related issues have been way overblown because if they were even
half as bad as people seem to think, I wouldn't use them myself and I certainly wouldn't recommend them to anyone else. I've used several brands of video card in my life (ATi, Oak, CirrusLogic and nVidia) and they all work the same. Whichever one is fastest at my price point is what I buy, well, as long as it's not nVidia. Now, I know that sounds dumb but even if I didn't hate nVidia, Radeons have been the fastest cards at my price point every single time anyway. The only driver-related issue that I've ever encountered was some annoying overscan with my R9 Furies. Simply toggling GPU scaling in the Crimson control panel fixed the problem instantly. As for Adrenalin, I've
never once encountered an issue, period.