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Gamers desert Intel in droves, as Steam share plummets from 81% to 55.6% in just five years (www.club386.com)

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

I mean the i7s had SMT. You had to pay extra for SMT, whereas AMD started giving it to you on every SKU except a few low-end ones.

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[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 point 10 months ago

Is it true that all of them had SMT but they just locked it away for lower tiers processors and some managed to activate it despite Intel's effort?

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