>>106365339 (OP)
When it came out, absolutely: Intel options were decimating them with their single core performance.
But later it somewhat changed due to Intel-aviv speedhole patches and multithreaded applications becoming the norm, also they are the last processors which lack ME and PSP botnets, so can be said they aged relatively well.
I'm using an FX8300 while writing this: still good enough for everything, and barely enough to run Win11.
My only complaints are power draw, and big FPS drops in games where lots of bots/players are present at the same time. (guess its either thanks to the shared FPU or weak single threaded performance)
Thinking about building a current/prevgen Ryzen machine someday but have better things currently to spend my time/money on.
>>106367114
>"8 cores"
So 486SX and below lacking integrated FPU-s were not considered as single core cpus, sure.
AMD chose the easy way out with the settlement, instead of endlessly arguing about an irrelevant thing while burning lot more money.
