Originally Posted by Paradaz
...For perspective Allen,.. Ryzen (especially 5) has been out what? a couple of months at the most......its still the honeymoon period. ..The same would have been reported against the Bulldozer range after a month and what a waste they turned out to be!


The claim of the article was that this survey has been going on annually since 2010. The data for each year is the data that year (not the data for the remembrances of an old product this year).

Note: Back when it released, Bulldozer was "panned". The chart shows 6.9% positive and 66% negative -- Bulldozer was the worst score since they started the survey in 2010. I panned Bulldozer also (but bought one).

Back in 2011, Intel scored VERY high also. And, Intel scored high a couple times since -- 2014 most recently. However, as noted by others, Intel has not been releasing big improvements for the last couple years -- due to lack of competition by AMD or anyone else -- so, the "new" Intel chips are less well received because they do not add much.

Ryzen per core is similar to Intel -- but has twice as many cores/threads for a price many can afford (which matters in some applications and will become more important as time passes). So, Ryzen gets good marks from potential buyers. As noted previously, Intel plans to release an affordable 12 core soon to compete. They would not bother to do that if their (Intel's) market research indicated Ryzen was only a "flash in the pan" -- Ryzen is real even to Intel.

All in all, the survey seems about right to me.


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