AMD vs. INTEL

[Krunoslav]

Hello,
i need to make a presentation for school about the cons and pros of Intel and AMD.
Like pricewise, heat output and that stuff.
Anything is much apritiated.

Thaks in advance.

 

[Cazauxx]

Intel's Pros: Good performance and Bigger Cache
Intel's Cons: Price, Power Consumption, Horrible implementation of new Technologies. The price is $1000 for their 3.33 Hexa-core (six core) CPU and it is $295 for AMD's 1090T 3.2 Ghz six core which in reality actually performs at a clock speed of 3.6 ghz. you do the math. Intel is also horrible for gaming and Power users or even the mainstream user. Their motherboards specialized for their processors are $265-$700. plus there $500-$1000 proccessors if you want any good performance

AMD's Pros: Good performance, Large Cache, Price, Power Consumption, Implementation of new Technologies, AMD made 64 bit technology. All of AMD's AM2, AM2+, and AM3 processors are actually now 128 bit/64 bit/32 bit processors. They can Implement all three at the same time, but there are no 128 bit operating systems out there. There has been a leak though. The info leak says that AMD and Microsoft are teaming up to make the first 128 bit OS. Anyway back to AMD. Good for gaming. motherboards are inexpensive. They also offer, just like intel, 1-6 cores, single(1), dual(2), triple(3)(intel does not have that), quad(4), and hexa cores(6) and SOON Octo(8), Nona(9), Deca(10), undeca(11), Dodeca(12), 16, and 24 cores. AMD is alo going to come out with Fusion technology that intel cannot do with there 32 nm process. Fusion is the merginf of a very High performace Graphics processor, High performance ram, and the general processor on 1 chip while still retaining the size of the current chip today. This is expected to debut in 2011. Here is some more news Last week Nvidia’s CEO made clear what many of us had known for some time. There was a war brewing between Intel and Nvidia that Intel actually started by creating Larrabee. Many had thought the more likely war would be between AMD and Nvidia once AMD bought ATI, but that sure isn’t what we are seeing now. Apparently, AMD and Nvidia are getting along relatively well right now and both look at Intel as their major problem. In effect, Intel's Larrabee is driving Nvidia and AMD back together as partners.

AMD's cons: not as large of a cache as intel but who needs a super large cache, and AMD only support Dual channel technology for there memory and Intel has tri channel but Y pay $800 more for 1 more channel of memory which you will not even notice a difference with?





Source: https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100818190830AAUaJje

 

[kanewolf]

Hello,
i need to make a presentation for school about the cons and pros of Intel and AMD.
Like pricewise, heat output and that stuff.
Anything is much apritiated.

Thaks in advance.

What type class? Economics or CS? The company or the CPUs? Intel makes lots of types of chips. CPUs, motherboard chips, network adapters, SSDs... Most of those markets AMD has no presence.
AMD and Intel compete directly only in a limited scope.

 

[Krunoslav]

Thanks for your fast replay and really rich answear. Appreciate it

 

[dudeman509]

AMD Pros: Price, Multitasking prowess, ridicuously overclockable (all desktop chips are unlocked). Scales well to applications that can use more than 2-4 cores. AMD A8/A10 APUs pack excellent graphics performance compared to Intel's HD graphics.
Cons: Low single-thread performance, high heat, high power draw that requires good cooling and good motherboards to support it. Most AMD chips can't stand up to the performance of an overclockable mid-level Haswell processor. Server chips (Opterons) have low clockspeeds and ridiculously poor single-thread performance.

Intel Pros: Great for gaming, high single-thread performance, power efficient. Hyperthreading is a definite advantage on I7 chips. Most have lower TDPs than competing AMD chips.
Cons: Price, very small improvements generation to generation. Depends on the series - some were better overclockers than others (Sandy vs Ivy Bridge). Early core series chips (Nehalem, Core 2) made a lot of heat, but that's ancient history. Terrible Integrated graphics until Broadwell.

 

[Krunoslav]

MY class is called Computer building so...., more on the hardware side...

 

[kanewolf]

Thanks for your fast replay and really rich answear. Appreciate it

Some of the things in @Cazauxx answer aren't very accurate. I wouldn't rely on it... His info has 2011 referenced. Not very current.

Intel has much BETTER power efficiency than AMD for CPUs. They have much smaller transistors with process improvements that AMD has not yet been able to implement.
They have new technologies faster than AMD. USB3 DDR4 and Thunderbolt were all available on Intel first.
The downside to the Intel improvements is that new motherboards are required.

AMD has leveraged the graphics improvements that they purchased from ATI to improve the embedded graphics in their APU (A10-7250 etc) CPUs. They are much better without a discrete graphics card than Intel. AMD has maintained socket compatibility for a long time. That means you could do 2 or even 3 CPU upgrades without a motherboard upgrade.

 

[Krunoslav]

Thanks for the clearup and update.

 

[Th3-Hunter333]

Intel's Pros: Good performance and Bigger Cache
Intel's Cons: Price, Power Consumption, Horrible implementation of new Technologies. The price is $1000 for their 3.33 Hexa-core (six core) CPU and it is $295 for AMD's 1090T 3.2 Ghz six core which in reality actually performs at a clock speed of 3.6 ghz. you do the math. Intel is also horrible for gaming and Power users or even the mainstream user. Their motherboards specialized for their processors are $265-$700. plus there $500-$1000 proccessors if you want any good performance

AMD's Pros: Good performance, Large Cache, Price, Power Consumption, Implementation of new Technologies, AMD made 64 bit technology. All of AMD's AM2, AM2+, and AM3 processors are actually now 128 bit/64 bit/32 bit processors. They can Implement all three at the same time, but there are no 128 bit operating systems out there. There has been a leak though. The info leak says that AMD and Microsoft are teaming up to make the first 128 bit OS. Anyway back to AMD. Good for gaming. motherboards are inexpensive. They also offer, just like intel, 1-6 cores, single(1), dual(2), triple(3)(intel does not have that), quad(4), and hexa cores(6) and SOON Octo(8), Nona(9), Deca(10), undeca(11), Dodeca(12), 16, and 24 cores. AMD is alo going to come out with Fusion technology that intel cannot do with there 32 nm process. Fusion is the merginf of a very High performace Graphics processor, High performance ram, and the general processor on 1 chip while still retaining the size of the current chip today. This is expected to debut in 2011. Here is some more news Last week Nvidia’s CEO made clear what many of us had known for some time. There was a war brewing between Intel and Nvidia that Intel actually started by creating Larrabee. Many had thought the more likely war would be between AMD and Nvidia once AMD bought ATI, but that sure isn’t what we are seeing now. Apparently, AMD and Nvidia are getting along relatively well right now and both look at Intel as their major problem. In effect, Intel's Larrabee is driving Nvidia and AMD back together as partners.

AMD's cons: not as large of a cache as intel but who needs a super large cache, and AMD only support Dual channel technology for there memory and Intel has tri channel but Y pay $800 more for 1 more channel of memory which you will not even notice a difference with?





Source: https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100818190830AAUaJje

This is most definitely not the year of 2011, this is 2015 (in 4 years time ALOT changes when it comes to technology)

Therefore by saying that i will say that quite a bit of what you say is now 100% false.

To the OP, if you are on a VERY tight budget go for an amd rig to save money for the graphics card.
Otherwise intel is 100% the way to go.

P.S. I used to own the fx 8350 before i switched to the rig in my signature, Intel wins by MILES in gaming

 

[Tradesman1]

Intel has stronger and up to date CPUs, the AMD top of the line is about 3 years old. AMD CPUs also tend to have weaker MCs (memory controllers) which are more attuned to lower data rates and less sticks (total DRAM) than Intel. Have some comparisons between AMD/Intel and performance in my article here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dram-benchmark-fluctuations,4080.html