News Which PC Boots Up and Shuts Down Faster: AMD or Intel?

[damric]

Optane seriously? I don't know of a single consumer that owns Optane.

Test this with the fastest PCIE 3.0 and 4.0 SSDs. People actually have those.

 

[seanwebster]

Optane seriously? I don't know of a single consumer that owns Optane.

Test this with the fastest PCIE 3.0 and 4.0 SSDs. People actually have those.

Results scale slower. I tested it some and a bunch in the past. You can't beat Optane's responsiveness.

 

[Chung Leong]

In finance, they call it "picking up pennies in front of a steam rollers". The investment strategy involves earning tiny returns continually at the risk of getting completely crushed one day. Choosing AMD over Intel on the basis of benchmarks is sort of like that. Here and there you save some a few milliseconds. Then one day you suffer a delay measured in seconds .

 

[bigdragon]

There are so many options to tweak and features available on the x570 platform that it's no surprise it would be slower to boot than z490. AMD firmware tends to be significantly bigger and more configurable than Intel's firmware. More UEFI modules, DXE drivers, and options means more boot time.

Yes, Intel boots faster but gives you less control. AMD boots slower but provides more control. If you're judging boot speed, then Intel is always going to win. If you're more interested in features, tinkering, nailing those settings just right, and using newer standards before they're fully mature, then AMD is going to win. The results are less a competition and more a preference.

 

[Makaveli]

It looks like AGESA MOBO firmware from AMD's side takes a bit longer to initialize than Intel, otherwise I believe the actual boot up times will be almost 1:1.

Speaking about the bios.

What bios version was used on the AMD board?

i've had a few bios updates in the last 3 months on my x570 board that has sped up my boot times.

 

[dgwawrzy]

Why not use Samsung PCIe 4.0 x 4 980 Pro NVMe in the AMD system for the fastest possible boot - oh wait Intel CPUs don't support PCIe 4.0. If Intel supported PCIe 4.0 and not AMD I'm positive you would've used it.

 

[TerryLaze]

It would be interesting to see if this is the CPU affecting this,

You don't need a review to tell you that.
Load up a game and measure the time it takes then go to windows power settings and put the CPU to 50% ,or any number you like, max (maximum processor state) do it again and see if something changes.

 

[TerryLaze]

Why not use Samsung PCIe 4.0 x 4 980 Pro NVMe in the AMD system for the fastest possible boot - oh wait Intel CPUs don't support PCIe 4.0. If Intel supported PCIe 4.0 and not AMD I'm positive you would've used it.

Yes and every usb3.1 flash drive is faster than every usb 2 one...
If it actually has faster transfer and seek rates ok but the PCI version alone doesn't give you any speed improvement.

 

[Makaveli]

Why not use Samsung PCIe 4.0 x 4 980 Pro NVMe in the AMD system for the fastest possible boot - oh wait Intel CPUs don't support PCIe 4.0. If Intel supported PCIe 4.0 and not AMD I'm positive you would've used it.

I don't see that making a difference at all.

And the optane drive should provide a faster boot than any of the PCie 4.0 drives.

They shine in sequential file transfers, which is not what the windows boot process is doing.

Probably the most pointless test ever in all fairness.

If you can't handle waiting 15 seconds to get into windows in a useable state there's something inherently wrong.

My xbox one takes longer to boot than that!

Agreed.

My machine goes to sleep 90% of the time and maybe do a full shutdown once every 3 to 6 months. So boot time really doesn't matter for me.

 

[seanwebster]

Speaking about the bios.

What bios version was used on the AMD board?

i've had a few bios updates in the last 3 months on my x570 board that has sped up my boot times.

It was v3.40 on the X570 Taichi - AMD AGESA Combo-AM4 V2 1.0.8.0

I did also test on an ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WI-FI) with the same AMD AM4 AGESA V2 1.0.8.0 (UEFI Version 2206) and it performed similarly.

Why not use Samsung PCIe 4.0 x 4 980 Pro NVMe in the AMD system for the fastest possible boot - oh wait Intel CPUs don't support PCIe 4.0. If Intel supported PCIe 4.0 and not AMD I'm positive you would've used it.

The Samsung 980 PRO is not released yet. Current Gen4 SSDs boot slower than the 1.5TB Intel Optane SSD 905P in both systems.

 

[Ariur]

A lot of triggered AMD fanboys in damage control mode in this thread, lol

 

[Flayed]

Over 2k is a bit much for an SSD don't you think?

 

[JayNor]

Intel is introducing the Tiger Lake EVO laptops with instant wake. It'll be like refrigerator lights...

 

[nofanneeded]

1- First , You cant compare two different motherboards in booting times , because hardware wise these two motherboard are not 1:1 identical .

2- Second , Using Optane is wrong for intel is more optimized to recognize Optane SSD faster on booting .. you should test this again using something neutral like Samsung NVME 970 pro , or 970 evo plus.

 

[jmc]

AMD improved hugely the boot time in these last bios updates because it used to take nearly half minute. Its just a shame threatripper still takes a minute to train the memory and check other things.😴

 

[Makaveli]

1- First , You cant compare two different motherboards in booting times , because hardware wise these two motherboard are not 1:1 identical .

2- Second , Using Optane is wrong for intel is more optimized to recognize Optane SSD faster on booting .. you should test this again using something neutral like Samsung NVME 970 pro , or 970 evo plus.

Agreed would like to see this tested with a Regular nvme SSD on both just to see what the results are.

 

[colson79]

Slow news day?

LOL, that what I was thinking. When the most exciting thing is to determine that one system boots a whole 4 seconds faster they must be really board.

 

[Unolocogringo]

My PCs get rebooted for windows updates and every three months for cleaning. 4 dogs and 3 cats produce a lot of dust and hair on a regular basis.
So a few seconds is trivial as long as they run folding@home 24/7/365 otherwise.

 

[svan71]

We put Intel's Z490 platform head-to-head with AMD's X570 to see which system boots the fastest.

Which PC Boots Up and Shuts Down Faster: AMD or Intel? : Read more

After next month boot times and shutdowns is all Intel will win. I swapped my video cards and boot time increased significantly.

 

[hotaru.hino]

1- First , You cant compare two different motherboards in booting times , because hardware wise these two motherboard are not 1:1 identical .

We might as well throw every cross-CPU comparison out the window then simply because they didn't use the same motherboard.

2- Second , Using Optane is wrong for intel is more optimized to recognize Optane SSD faster on booting .. you should test this again using something neutral like Samsung NVME 970 pro , or 970 evo plus.

Do you have any proof of this? Just because it's Intel on Intel doesn't mean much. I may as well claim they should've use an NVIDIA video card because AMD systems can recognize and configure a Radeon card faster.

 

[gio2vanni86]

Strange my boot times on my amd system are about 7 seconds at start. 4 at restart. Dont have an intel to test, but its definitely not 17. But its running off my nvme gen4 slot. So maybe thats why its fast.

 

[vinay2070]

Am a 3700X@4.2GHz user. Pretty buthurt after seeing these results! 🙄 But definitely not regretting my purchase decision just based on these 😉

 

[ikjadoon]

This actually was an interesting test. I wonder why there are differences: UEFI? Chipset? Motherboard? Or the actual CPUs? I wonder if ASRock could shed some light.

Both platforms are excellent in terms of features (e.g., ignoring Intel CPU's PPC advantage / AMD CPU's nT & power advantage), so it's good to see where manufacturers can improve in terms of polish.

I'd rather read this kind of testing today than most of the rumor / clickbait traffic infesting most news outlets these days. Cheers for actually unique content.

 

[wirefire]

Thinking about this. is it possible that the extensive number of CPUs that fit into an AM4 socket VS the very limited number of CPUs that fit into LGA 1200 puts the AMD in a position that initialization is a much more complex process.

is this the "boot" process or the time from power to login. because the post may have a larger impact than the "boot" when you have these short load times.

(I remember a 386 being upgraded to windows 98... the stopwatch had timer of 999 minutes and turned red. it isn't a boot up timer but just makes me think about how far the computers have come.)

 

[vinay2070]

Optane seriously? I don't know of a single consumer that owns Optane.

Test this with the fastest PCIE 3.0 and 4.0 SSDs. People actually have those.

I agree with this. Most people (or all the people I know) do not use optane. The results might be slower with a samsung evo, but definitely interested in seeing those results just to know how much the optane is worth it for both intel and amd systems.

 

[d0x360]

It looks like AGESA MOBO firmware from AMD's side takes a bit longer to initialize than Intel, otherwise I believe the actual boot up times will be almost 1:1.

My thoughts exactly, possibly because the socket supports more cpu's.

My i7 5820k (6 cores @ 4.4ghz), 32 gigs ddr4 with windows fast boot disabled manages to go from bios to windows logged in and ready to go in 12 seconds.

I have windows and only windows installed on a 220 gig nvme ssd. My system isn't exactly brand new... Although I'm probably going to upgrade to ryzen before year's end. That said it still boots lightning quick and plays everything just fine. In fact I don't think I've seen a game push the CPU above 65% and I have a 2080ti, play at 4k and see 99% gpu use.