Time for an opinion piece...
AMD has won the battle against Intel CPUs but now they need to prepare for war
When Zen 3 launched last year, AMD did the unthinkable. They not only beat Intels 10th gen in games but also beat Intels 11th in games. Then with their usual workstation lead and a superior X570 platform that offers both PCI-e gen 4 for primary and secondary SSDs while Intel's 10th gen did Gen 3 and 11th gen did Gen 4 only for primary... It was pretty clear that Intel would be relegated to budget options as AMD had abandoned that segment for DIY. This was an outstanding achievement for AMD and utter embarrassment for Intel, make no mistake.
Now almost a year after AMD launched their Zen 3, Intel is taking it's gloves off if the rumours are to be believed. With Alder Lake S, assuming the numbers are correct, this is looking to be their next "Nehalem" so to speak and we know what happened after that CPU released. Now the question is... Whether or not History will repeat itself or will AMD come out with another Zen 3 moment? Of course, we don't know yet.
What we do know is AMD will need to bring the performance as Intel is bringing the platform. No longer is the platform a clear advantage for AMD. Least not until we see what Zen 4 brings. Alder Lake S is coming out with DDR5 and PCI-E Gen 5 and Raptor Lake will continue. Based on what we know so far, Zen 4 will only have DDR5 but continue with PCI-E 4 and Zen 3 Vcache is guaranteed to be DDR4/PCI-E Gen 4. Considering the age old moto of people rarely upgrade CPUs, the platform and the performance matters a lot. So going forward, AMD will need to focus its efforts on performance to really drive people to purchase their product as its looking like they will be behind in the platform. They can't just be on Par with Intel, they need to beat them.
So it will be exciting times ahead. We will see how AMD responds and what the performance numbers are like. If Alder Lake S turns out to be as powerful as the rumours suggest, then AMD can't just bring their A game but they need their S game. And at the end of the day, having a monopoly with either companies will be bad. So hopefully, AMD will fight back and assuming they do... Hopefully... So will Intel.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
