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UserBenchmark suggests you buy the i5-13600K over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D — says AMD drives sales with 'aggressive marketing' rather than 'real-world performance' (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

The funny thing is that UserBenchmark's "passion" for Intel doesn't seem to be motivated by financial concerns, this seems to be an obsession of sorts by the site's management. They've been discounting AMD in rather convoluted ways at least as far back as the late 2010s (around the time Zen was released).

I am genuinely curious to find the full story behind this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I forget the actual GPUs being compared, but was looking at a UserBenchmark comparison of a NVIDIA vs Arc card, and the review blurb at the bottom was a rant about AMD cards...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

They are truly commited to their intel fandom .

In a way, I respect this more than corpo-shills who do not have an opinion at all.

There is an abstract beauty about their dedication. It's like a good art house movie about the inherent contradictions in life; except the topic at hand is nerdy electronics company drama BS.

[–] Zikeji 10 points 2 weeks ago

Not to mention with Intel's stability issues on their recent chips and the hoops people had to go through and are still going through to get sorted out, it's going to take an equally bad fuck up from AMD for me to the compare them again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Probably owns Intel stock or is shorting AMD