Why is Intel still making 2c/4t mobile CPUs? I mean I guess it woild be okay on Pentiums and Celerons, but this is a Core i3.
Why is Intel still making 2c/4t mobile CPUs? I mean I guess it woild be okay on Pentiums and Celerons...
Christopher Thomas
Lincoln Morgan
virtually no competition
people will still buy it, especially 2 years ago with the lockdowns
Justin Robinson
its literally only $300
Blake Thomas
Why wouldn't they? Most people barely benefit from additional cores. Many workloads rely heavily on single threaded programs.
The multi-core retardation needs to stop.
Isaac Murphy
>Most people barely benefit from additional cores
Evan Reed
You're not going to believe this but the reason is money
Jackson Murphy
They're competing with the likes of Ryzen 3250U because AMD has nothing newer in that price bracket.
Asher Powell
Because AMD arent kikes and dont sell dual cores anymore, the 6000 series starts with 6 cores as it should be
Adrian Russell
The 6000 series has nothing for laptops in sub-$500 price range.
Ryan Flores
the 5000 series refresh does and starts at 4 cores, still better than intel
Ryan White
Doesn't matter, low-end non-refreshed 5000 series is about as rare as 3300X and 5300G for desktop, AMD clearly focuses their limited 7nm production capability on more expensive chips. All while I still see tons of 3250U/3500U laptops for sale, since those chips don't depend on TSMC.
Julian Foster
the cheapest 5000 series laptop i can find starts $550 and lenovo had to solder the ram to keep the price low
lenovo.com
Christopher Edwards
a dual core in 2022 is painful to use from personal experience
Mason Howard
because they sell
because you know it's painful
there are others that think "well, that's just how computers are"
Cooper Cox
AMD sells 2c/4t ryzen 3 CPUs, what's the deal?
If we criticize Intel we should be criticizing AMD too.
Wyatt Fisher
I'd bet most of these are server CPUs. Intel likely overestimated how much the vendors would want to invest into subpar Ice Lake-SP servers, so they're stuck with a lot of inventory while vendors are going with Epyc and/or waiting for Sapphire Rapids.
Jack Walker
Simply not offering people without a lot of money anything to buy doesn't make amd good. Makes them quite shitty actually.
Ethan Williams
Exactly. Intel aren't made up of the type of people that won't pick up a penny on the street.
Andrew Stewart
Why don't you buy an i5/i7 if you want moar cores OP?
Cheap processors have cheap features.
Jose Rivera
if you can find a way for AMD to sell mid/low range cpus at volume right now, go and contact them, they'll hire you on the spot.
>human nature is different across different organizations
epyc
Caleb Morales
well they should have expensive ones
Daniel Bailey
>a dual core in 2022 is painful to use
It really isn't, unless the CPU is ancient. An SSD makes everything fly.
t. has a Skylake 4405U in his laptop
All companies want money. AMD just fails to address a huge portion of the market. Their loss.
John Sullivan
Well they make way more in the server space now, where they undercut intel by a massive margin. At least they used to, last I heard they were raising epyc prices by 30%.
Adrian Campbell
I don't blame them. I'd do the same thing. It's the consequence of running fabless in a crazy market.
Bentley Collins
>virtually no competition
Except Ryzen chips with 4 or even 6 cores are dirt cheap now.
Even web browsers spawn a lot of processes and threads now. The only workload that doesn't benefit from moar cores is video games, so good job exposing yourself as a Any Forums tourist retard.
Parker Campbell
Can confirm any post 2010 2core/4thread cpu paired with an SSD screams
t. daily drives a 2013 HP laptop with an AMD A10 5745m because it still works fine.
Brandon Thomas
$300 laptops arent a huge portion of the market