I've noticed that when comparing competing Intel and AMD CPUs based on gaming performance (especially CPU intensive games, such as MMORPGs or Simulation), Intel seems to have a fair lead, even with lower clock rates, number of physical cores (I understand most games don't make use of more than one or two cores) or cache memory, assuming neither system is being bottlenecked by RAM, GPU or any other kind of resources.
Can someone give me a technical answer for what exactly makes Intel CPUs have better single thread performance than AMD equivalents?
Can someone give me a technical answer for what exactly makes Intel CPUs have better single thread performance than AMD equivalents?