Explain why FX9590 was released at $900, Explain why AM1 happened at all, explain why they keep selling sub performing FX for so long. Yes, Intel has been ripping off customers, personally i whould have never considered 6900 or 6950X, because if i needed more threads, there where better options in the Xeons. But AMD has been doing the same thing, im just pointing that out, and you are trying to defend a company that are ripping people off, "At least not to the same extend"? WTF, since when that matters? /period
MASSIVE Difference, AMD is broke and on full survival mode, they are selling the best they had, bulldozer and derivatives we're poor performing in single thread yes, but they were/are dirt cheap, they offer decent MT performance especially when first released, later derivatives made power efficient APUs, graphics wise AMD out did Intel for the most part so it wasn't all bad.
But apart from one example fx9590 when gas AMD tried to overcharge?
Fx9590 price was in response to intels 999$ HEDT line up, intel are the market leader, competitors are usually wise enough to imitate/follow the market leader to make ends meat, AMD have been close to bankruptcy, they have been on survival mode for years, living off of scraps, trying to consolidate what littlecash flow into a miniscule R&D budget, no doubt having to scale back or even mothball projects due to lack of finances, intel played a huge roll in that, the effects of which are still being felt no doubt.
To compare the two is ridiculous, you can forgive AMD for a miss step here and there out of necessity, intel with their near monopoly and infinite cash flow should get no such pass, they are overcharging and segmenting out of greed, not necessity and theres the difference.