AMD vs INTEL

[likwidtek]

Sorry for all the random posts... I'm at a family easter thing so obviously I'm scouring the net and finding cool things.

For those of you that still argue intel better then amd for gaming performance.

This article is like 4 months old but still:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2330&p=2

While you can argue that AMD's performance advantages in the other tests aren't noticeable on a price-for-price basis, you can't argue with the results here.  At the $280 - $290 price point, AMD's Athlon 64 3500+ delivers about 15% more performance than Intel's Pentium 4 550.  

The margin is even greater at the low end, AMD's Athlon 64 3000+ is 23% faster than Intel's similarly priced Pentium 4 520.  

At the high end the advantage is equally in AMD's favor, with the Athlon 64 4000+ holding a 22% advantage over Intel's fastest Pentium 4.  

Conclusion?  Don't look any further than AMD for the best gaming CPU, and Half Life 2 further cements AMD's reputation as the gamer's CPU.

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

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[likwidtek]

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[Anonymous]

It's like Xbox vs PS2.. PS2 had a firm hold on the American market up until about a year ago when Xbox started to create a slew of original titles and buy the rights to crossplatform many PS2 games and negotiate a contract with EA Sports and now there is no comparison that Xbox is the king of consoles, even though it was always vastly superior in hardware.

AMD pwns Intel and the very beginning was the advent of the Athlon (AMD K7 stuff wasn't so spectacular).  Since the Athlon was introduced and it's progeny, AMD has been less expensive and out benchmarking by all comparisons... and now AMD chips are built on 64 bit architecture, looking to the future for the next gen OS systems.  Intel is overpriced and underperforming.

*revives thread*

[Anonymous]

I personlly believe there about the same. Its  similiar to the nvid/ati vga debate. I personllay prefer intel and yes ive had both. Im currently running a 3.4 intel p4 extreme edition on a aopen i1865pe motherboard. But like i said the problem is choice...

[Anonymous]

For every article you can generate Pro AMD I can generate 2 that are Pro Intel http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/roundupcpu/pentium4-28-athlonxp-26-mx.html The answer is just this choice.  I prefer Intel because in all applications I have ever used Intel has always come in ahead for me.  Both are good chips, but as far as who I would go with personally I like the backing of a corporate giant.

[Anonymous]

But the thing is Intel have huge amounts of advertising, whereas AMD have no need. Surely this is a sign of true quality, they do not blow thier own trumpet, but merely let others do so for them. I find Intel put across a "Look at us we are amazing" image, and so AMD are quietly superior.

[Anonymous]

Well this debate will always be around.  I'm not saying AMD is in any way a bad chip, but my preference will always be Intel.    As far as advertising money, there is a reason for them having that money to advertise with.  Specifically people buying their chips.  I mean practically every company out there that sells PC's pre-built will have Intel inside.   IBM, DELL,  COMPAQ, HP.

[Anonymous]

with archon on this one, i prefer the world dominating corporations to take my hand and lead me to the intel box instead of trying to figure out how the silly thing fits into slot a-2.

[likwidtek]

For every article you can generate Pro AMD I can generate 2 that are Pro Intel http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/roundupcpu/pentium4-28-athlonxp-26-mx.html The answer is just this choice.  I prefer Intel because in all applications I have ever used Intel has always come in ahead for me.  Both are good chips, but as far as who I would go with personally I like the backing of a corporate giant.

Maybe you didn't read the article or my post closley enough but I said and they said "gaming performance".

Intel is the obvious choice for content creation.  This includes audio and video production, application development, and what not.

But for games, any UP TO DATE benchmark will reflect that AMD not only has a price point advantage, but a performance advantage.

[Anonymous]

While we're on this AMD v INTEL thing:

-Dual CPU's. DOES IT REALLY HELP?
-How do AMD and INTEL par against each other when it comes to Dual CPU Tech?

[Anonymous]

Dual CPU's will give little to no help with games. As far as anything else you have to have an application and OS that will take advantage of multiple CPU's.  If you have a specific question on an application let me know I will try to answer.  I have machines here from dual processor all the way up to quad and the extra processing power is only good if your application will take advantage of it.

[likwidtek]

Computers suck.  I like my calculator.

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

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[likwidtek]

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