Duron was a turd.
With crapdozer and pileofshit AMD never did catch up even with way higher clockspeeds and watt usage - I love those names
I'm glad that AMD is not completely trash anymore, we need 2 players. However I am sure that Intel will be 100% back in a few years. Pat Gelsinger is turning the company around fast. Bob Swan was sleeping on the job.
I can't wait to see if AMD is still competitive on performance when Raptor Lake and Meteor Lake comes out because Alder Lake is just the first taste of things to come.
Alder Lake is first time AMD is NOT competiting against Intel 14nm chips, never forget that Ryzen 5000 has been fighting 14nm parts and still Intel had almost identical performance in most workloads especially gaming and emulation.
Ryzen 5000 when overclocked to 4.7-4.8 on all cores also uses a ton more power. My 5900X at 4.7 can peak at 250 watts so I am not really sure why people bring watt usage up. Intel still have OC headroom but most AMD chips does not, this is why watt usage CAN go up alot on Intel chips still. Running at 5.2-5.4 GHz on all cores is obviously alot higher than 4.5-4.7 GHz on all cores.
Even i5-12600K beats all Ryzen 5000 chips in gaming tests so I expect a price drop across the board on all AMD parts.
AMD had a good run tho. Now they will probably go back to lower prices. Prices exploded with Ryzen 5000 launch and AMD did not release Non-X parts. So I am glad Intel is finally back.