Hardware Why does everyone hate broadwell

[Dominator211]

I have never seen a Broadwell gaming PC, its either Haswell or Skylake. Everyone seems to forget about the guy who introduced 14NM into the consumer mainstream.

Could someone explain why this is?

 

[the_randomizer]

Haswell and Skylake seem to be more popular and commonplace methinks.

 

[Dominator211]

Haswell and Skylake seem to be more popular and commonplace methinks.

one of the I7 chips for Broadwell is discontinued

 

[the_randomizer]

one of the I7 chips for Broadwell is discontinued

I'm thinking it just wasn't a big hit for Intel.

 

[Armadillo]

Because it was pointless. No decent performance increase and arrived so late that skylake was not far off. Broadwell-e offered nothing over haswell-e and seemed to overclock worse.

Pointless all round. No one hates it, it's just pointless.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

It came out mere months before Skylake, which was the bigger performance boost. Would've been nice to see more Broadwell chips for those of us using Z97 boards, but Intel seems to prefer to hook new customers rather than satisfy returning one's looking for an upgrade

 

[Kioku]

Because it was pointless. No decent performance increase and arrived so late that skylake was not far off. Broadwell-e offered nothing over haswell-e and seemed to overclock worse.

Pointless all round. No one hates it, it's just pointless.

This. Intel has made some really... odd choices over the past 4 years.

 

[DKAngel]

i hate upgrading intel cpus as each new one requires a new board and socket...but amd least they keep the same socket for a while

 

[raystriker]

Boadwell was rendered moot because skylake was ready for release. So Intel just kinda skipped over Boadwell. It was around 97-98% performance of Skylake

 

[Kioku]

i hate upgrading intel cpus as each new one requires a new board and socket...but amd least they keep the same socket for a while

That's only good for budget builds. It tends to hold them back.

 

[Originality]

If Broadwell came out when it was originally supposed to, it would've made enough of an impact. In the end, it was delayed to the point where it made virtually no difference compared to everything else on offer, and was completely forgotten about when Skylake rolled out shortly after.

Honestly I don't think Intel are really trying at this point. Their only "innovation" was finally breaking out the i9 range, and even that seemed only like a knee-jerk reaction to Ryzen's popularity. But then again, let's see what happen's with their next generation of Meltdown/Spectre-proof chips.

 

[Futurdreamz]

The bigger question is, why do people always seem to assume something was "hated" when in reality people were simply indifferent to it?

 

[Originality]

Because HateGate. The entire internet has to hate something, and that something can change at a moments notice depending on what trending story goes viral.