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Intel has lately become increasingly deceptive about TDP, benchmarks, and has been cutting corners to improve IPC that resulted in the latest security vulnerabilities. Although AMD has arguably less successful branding, on an objective level why would you be wary of their CPUs any more than you would with Intel’s?

Huh. At this point, after all the recent scandals - I'm wary of Intel CPUs.

I learnt what floating point was, when I bought a Cyrix - and my last non-Intel CPU was the one before I got a Celeron 300A.

There is nothing wrong with non-Intel CPU, but historically maybe some "considerations you might wish to make, when looking at the price"

Now.

No idea why you'd buy Intel.. None..

Last I checked they were still ahead in single-core, just more expensive. I'm willing to disable spectre/meltdown protection.

Check again..

..You were right last year. Right now it's "it depends" (I'd call it a draw).

Honest question: why are you wary of non-Intel CPUs?

They've just been slower for a long time and the impression is hard to shake.