Intel Architecture vs AMD architecture, which is better?

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Allow me to set some things straight. AMD was started by a guy named Jerry Sanders. Originally, IBM demanded that Intel have a second source for cpus, (common practice then) and Intel had to share the mask rights with AMD. This gave AMD legal right to produce 286 and 386 compatible cpus. Intel managed to break off that agreement with the 486 class cpu, and AMD resorted to a "clean room" reverse engineer to get coded up. Then, Pentium class cpu, countered by the awful AMD K class. What is happening now, has happened again and again and again. For a while, Cyrix was in the mix, now out. AMD has always survived by being lower price, only exception was launch of the Athlon, which was finally superior to the Intel offering. Well, now they are back at it. My guess is AMD now has leverage that Intel doesnt have, in that they purchased ATI. This puts them in better shape than ever, having a 2nd revenue stream, and access to the technology, with the ability to integrate... Dragon is a great example. All these CPUs are more than enough for the average person, and when the cost gets attractive, manufacturers will go that way. And have. AMD is in great shape at the ground level, and are in good shape on high end systems also. Intel has been in steady decline since Andy Grove left, still has superior resources, but if they haven't delivered a knockout blow in the 19 years since I was selling AMD 386-40 powered machines, they wont do it now.
 

That will teach you for picking on retards. :lol:
 

On AMDzone, one gets banned for correcting the misinformation of the Zone Regulars, and it doesn't matter whether your correction was done as polite as pie, if you don't drink the Green Kool-Aid, you have a very limited life on that board.

That is why AMDZone is the laughing stock of the online computer enthusiasts community.
 


The definition of "posting with an attitude" as interpreted by The Gay Ghost(who sees banning people as virtual sodomy), is very, very different to what one would find on a "normal" site, or just expect as part of reasonable discourse.
 


Actually you would also be banned due to your wonderful attitude. (Actually from your "mature" attitude I can surmise that you probably were.)

Just as the person in question showed up with the same superior attitude that he generally has here. Big shock he was banned. (Or not.)
 


This.

And yes, AMDZone has been caught banning people even when no "attitude" is thrown around, unless you glorify AMD that is.
 


MU, I have a friend that works at Intel. He used to work in the OPSD side of the house which makes the motherboards. He still has a working Timna processor and the motherboard that supported it.

It was not buggy. It worked extremely well with RDRAM. I have seen it working.

What you are thinking of as buggy was the use of the MTH with the 820 chipset. The MTH of course was Memory Translator Hub that converted the 820 RDRAM memory controller to work with the standard memory of the day. And from what I heard from him that all of the motherboard Engineers were just laughing at the results (MTH) that the chipset group came out with. I have heard him curse the chipset group many times for the blunders they have made over the years.
 


I saw the original thread that caused one of the major Intel fanboys from this forum to be banned there; he came with a smug know-it-all attitude and pretended to be completely surprised when he was banned after posting his opinions stated as facts in a derogatory manner. (I.e., he was trolling.)

I also saw how he came here to complain about it and presented only the part of the conversation that made him look "innocent".

The best part of all of this: You can review his posts from this forum and easily ascertain his trolling attitude that could get him banned on some forums.
 

Present the part that makes him look "guilty" then.

But of course you can't, because not only does not such a part exist, The Gay Ghost was deleting posts which showed everyone what fcukwits the AMDZone mods are, as after getting schooled, they then banned and deleted to try and cover their tracks.

Too bad for them others took screenshots to expose them.
 


I can see how you have presented irrefutable logic since there is no way that somebody would not post screen shots that might reveal something they do not want exposed. After all this is the internet and everyone always posts only the truth in all cases.


But actually for the forum in question it is easy to see many people actively disagree with the regular posters there and continue without being banned. Although when someone starts launching personal attacks and flame baiting they are warned and/or banned. If anybody not familiar with the poster in question were actually curious all they would need to do is review posts available in this forum to easily determine that the poster often resorts to personal attacks and flame baiting when people don't accept his opinions as fact.

 


It will stand you in good stead in case you ever have to visit a mental asylum.
 
I'm new here, but all of whats said above is interesting, although i didn't go through all posts.

both CPU's have their own advantages that can be seen on this website through many benchmarks that would help you decide on witch CPU to use.

For example; AMD is powerful enough when pared with a decent graphics card as it is good for graphics & gamin, bur when compared with intel we usually use the performance to price ratio to decide on which to buy. Unless your pretty wealthy & just wanna buy the best then you might go for the pricey Core i7-980X.


but over all, the AMD as I mentioned earlier when pared with a decent graphics card will perform very well.

on my PC with AMD Phenom at stock speed with a dual HD5770 will produce an average frame rate of 45FPS when set on highest graphics on 1080p when set to normal it will produce over 120FPS.

on desktop application, I'd say AMD performs a decent job, specially when it over heats it doesn't freeze.



mind my signature "my computer specs" if they were out of line or something.
 
It's an undeniable fact that Intel chips outperform AMD chips at every price point. The benchmark scores prove that. But the real question is: "So what?" When I buy a computer, I don't normally ask "What's the best?" I usually ask: "Given my needs, what's the most cost-effective solution?" In other words: "How can I get the most bang for my buck?" Since my bucks are quite limited, that's a very important question.

Most of the people I know do things on their computers like word processing, surfing the net, social networking, reading their email, and (maybe) doing a little Photoshop work with images from their cameras. In other words, not a lot. They really don't need that much of a CPU. AMD-based notebooks typically run about $40-$50 less than Intel-based systems; and, at least at the low-end with integrated GPUs, have better graphics performance. I submit that MOST people would get better overall performance by going with AMD and spending the money they save on extra memory. Please note that I said "most", not "all". Some people need the extra CPU performance for things like video editing, CAD/CAM work, or hard-core 3D gaming--but they are in a minority.

I do more with my computer than almost anyone I know; and I get along quite nicely with a $400 AMD-based "desktop replacement".

P.S. I might add that I truly admired Jerry Sanders, and didn't care much for Andy Groves' business practices.
 
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