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That seems at least a bit hyperbolic - AMD has pushed intel a lot in the past four years but it wasn't until the past year or so that they have potentially started outperforming Intel (depending on workload) in what is likely to be a 'who has released more recently' kind of competition for a while.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html

Latest benches have AMD and Intel winning in about the same number of tests.

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The first graph in this article doesn't include Ryzen 5000 series processors.

By their own tests later AMD has top 4 positions for both single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads. Intel came out with their Rocket lake line of CPUs after Ryzen 5000 and Rocket lake can't match up.

Even before Ryzen 5000, anything that wasn't single-threaded Intel could never beat; and had way worse performance per watt.

Weird, it definitely includes them for me, in all six images and it's exactly like the parent said (some Intel, some AMD).

Maybe you are confused because Threadripper is at the top in some above the 5000 series?

AMD is killing it with the 5000 series, but it's just barely edging out Intel in these benchmarks. The whole 2x figure was a little absurd.

It’s been true before that the losing architecture can juice their numbers by making big hot chips that use tons of power. Intel is so far behind that this is strategy is hard to continue. They can keep in the conversation by giving you more cores for less dollars, but those are dire straits for the company.

Its hard to continue but they have just posted great financials so only need to scrape through to 10 or 7 nm then they will probably go back to stomping AMD. AMD's documentation is poor, software is poor, marketing is also not great (My next computer will be an AMD but I wouldn't bet on them having a run anything like Intel's over the last decade)

AMD most definitely started outperforming Intel in performance per dollar in the last year forcing Intel to implement huge price cuts to remain competitive.

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