AMD has let me down too many times. Their hardware has always been decent but their drivers are a whole other story.
That being said, I have been watching their new CPUs and I may actually go back to and AMD build for the first time in 17 years when I built an AMD FX-53. That was my first computer build and I paid $900 for the CPU alone.
The threadripper, for instance, is a phenomenal buy for engineering companies these days man. i am in management now, but i started as a controls/sim/test engineer back then). We used to spend absurd amounts of cash for hardware back in the days and that's changed now. No contest for home use/enthusiast use on these, of course. The Intel weasel monopoly's prices had to come way down (i like competition and things like that)
The Big Navi benchmarks they revealed recently look very close to the Nvidia 3080. Word's out that there is another card (that they didn't show at the reveal event) that could bury the Nvidia 3080.
They've taken down one giant (Intel)....and it looks like they're on their way to take down the next (Nvidia).
I am thinking it's all that CEO savant from MIT they have now (Lisa Su). She's the brains behind this new revival of AMD, it seems.
