Intel and AMD are both vast established companies in today’s computing technologies. Producing the best processors and motherboards. These two companies are the first thing people can think of while buying a new computer. Well there is a huge difference between the products manufactured by these companies. Both of them posses good as well as bad properties. Let us compare the new processor released by these companies.
2010 was given a bright entry on the release of Intel’s i series processors. Intel released its new I core processors. I3, i5 and i7 were the model introduced. Each of these processors has unique features. While i3 processors are dual core, i5 processors are available both in dual core and quad core (4cores). I7 are high performance processors with 4 cores. The speciality of these processors is the turbo boost technology. These features are used to speed up the process. Where as amd processors are known for its speed and graphics performance. These processors gives high performance in gaming. These are efficient processors.
Comparing two products in particular, lets consider the intel i7 980X and amd phenom 2 1090t. Intel i7 has 4 cores where as the amd phenom 2 1090t has 6 cores. Which means amd phenom 2 is faster than Intel’s i7. One more cores we have, the more processes that can be run and in higher speed.
Another difference is the cache memory Intel i7 has 1.5mb of L2 cache and 12mb of L3 cache whereas amd offers 3mb L2 cache and 6mb of L3 cache. On chip well this can make a lot of difference L3 cache is very important one higher the L3 cache the better is the speed. So here we can say Intel offers higher L3 cache which is better compared to amd. Another feature is the ‘HYPER THREADING’ technology introduced in the Intel processors i7 offers L2 threads and and amd offers 6 threads so this is another drawback in amd processors where it might work a little slower than an Intel i7. Well however the amd processors beat the i7 processors by achieving speeds upto 4.2 GHz. where i7 gives 3.33 GHz. Intel runs on a 32 nanometer board and amd runs on 45 nanometer board so amd is smaller and better than Intel. Well coming to read and write speed, the triple channel memory has attained a higher mark in Intel i7 compared to the amd phenom2 so we can say amd is slower in read and write compare to i7.
Intel runs on 130W, where AMD requires 125W which is better and energy efficient. Intel supports only DDR3 where as an AMD can support both DDR3 as well as a DDR2.Which is an advantage if you have a DDR2 RAM laying around well coming to the cost. An AMD is available for 300$ and an Intel i7 costs 999$ .So which do you think is betters AMD rights well is saves you 800$.Well if we want a good processor good enough against an i7 we can obliviously choose an AMD.Because it is cheaper.
However choosing a processor mainly depends on the needs of the person. If he wants a computer for editing videos he can go for i7 and if he wants for gaming he can choose an AMD. Only thing is AMD is good enough just as the i7 but cost wise we can say AMD is better. But performance wise Intel is the best. So we can say both of these processors have drawbacks as well as good exiting features.
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