1. AMD vs. Intel
When it comes to choosing between Intel and AMD, the folks with the most at stake are the power
user crowd. Professional PC systems are used for 3D-rendering, video processing, audio engineering,
CAD, photo editing and intensive content creation work. These are the applications that demand raw
processing power - Microsoft Office, email and web browsers can be handled with much slower
processors.
History of AMD and Intel:
AMD or Advanced Micro Devices is a company that has been producing semiconductors,
microchips, CPUs, motherboards, and other types of computer equipment for the last 40
years. That makes them the second largest company in this sector currently after Intel.
Intel,or the Intel Corporation, was founded a year earlier in 1968. Both companies were
incorporated in Valley in the USA, and are leaders in research and development in the field.
These multinational companies are also well known for developing production facilities inAsia,
such as in Taiwan,China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Nevertheless, it is said their products are in
use in every country where PCs are used.
Both AMD and Intel produce mother boards which are the circuitry at the base of all
personal computers. AMD and Intel also create CPU or Central Processing Unit chips for the
personal computer. While both are in the same industry but are always vying against each other
for market share and technological changes.

2. Main Products
Intel
The product line of Intel comprises of:
Microprocessors: The Pentium line, Celeron and Core. Latest innovations include the Core i7-980X
Extreme Edition with 6 physical and 12 logical cores. Servers: Intel has chipsets, motherboards, software,
memory and many more solutions for servers.
Motherboards: Intel Server series and Intel Workstation series for servers and the Intel Desktop board
for Desktops. Others: Intel manufacturers many communication and memory solution equipment and
software for Desktops and Notebooks also.
AMD
Microprocessors: The Athlon variety, X2, K10, AMD Opteron.
Servers: Processors of the Opteron like are available for servers also.
Motherboards: The AMD Crossfire series are available in this line along with many others.
Others:AMD recently acquired a leading video card manufacturer and is promising more advanced video
capabilities coded into new versions of their motherboards. It also offers software and memory solutions
for businesses.
Graphic card and GPUunder the name of ATI
Intel and AMD processors
INTEL processors: Intel was the first major brand for desktop CPUs, they survived a lot of
competitors. The CPUs they manufacture are always a bit more expensive than AMDs. Because of
their market shares, Intel was able to force some "gadgets" onto the market. Until 2002, all CPUs
were classified by the speed (for example 2GHz - so 2000MHz). Intel lost some influence on the
desktops CPU market because of AMDs techniques - they used not only pure speed but a more
specific command kernel. By that the CPUs (i.e. AMD Athlon XP) were slower, but provided the
same results as a faster Intel CPU (remember? AMD at 1.666GHz was the same as an INTEL on
1,8GHz). Intel provides most of the "normal" server CPUs today. Private users often choose AMDs
for their machines to save costs. Intel supports the classification by the pure speed of a CPU no
more. The introduced new numbers for the CPUs which represent the speed, the advanced
features, the cache etc. for a certain CPU (and the best for them: you cannot compare them to AMD
any longer as easily as it was before ...).
AMD: AMD concentrated on the PC and consumer market and cut the costs for their CPUs in order
to be more competitive. Nowadays the AMD CPUs are hotter than Intel CPUs, therefore you will
need a better cooling and your system will be a bit louder. AMD provides a dual core CPU for PCs
longer than Intel and I guess they have more experience with these features.

3. IN GENERAL WE CAN SAY buying a desktop computer can be a lengthy process involving many complex
decisions, but none come with quite as much jargon as figuring out the best CPU.Before you know it,
you're drowning in talk of cores and clock speeds, socket types and memory controllers, Bulldozer, Piled
River and more. While you'll need to consider at least some of these issues, there's an easier way to
approach your purchasing problems. And that's to ignore the technical detail, just for the moment, and
focus first on a more fundamental question: Intel vs. AMD, which processors are the best for you? You’ll
probably find that answering this is much more straightforward. And once you've made your choice,
many other decisions about your new PC will fall into place, saving you plenty of time.
It's not all bad news, of course, particularly if you're interested in mobile computing. As our guide to
Haswell explains, Haswell CPUs have new sleep states and enhanced power management which promise
a major leap forward in battery life. For instance, you should be able to leave a Haswell system on active
standby, regularly grabbing emails, downloading social media updates and more, for a whole seven days
on a single charge: very impressive.
The design of Haswell CPUs brings advances to power management
But on the desktop, even the top-of-the-range Intel Core i7-4770K really doesn't deliver much new
(beyond requiring another new socket, meaning you can't drop it into an existing system). As our Intel
Core i7-4770K review points out, it's "just barely any better than the processor it replaces", not good
news when it also comes with a significant price premium - as we write, it's priced at US$350 (about
AU$380, £228).
Intel's latest could make a big difference for mobile
Intel's latest technologies could make a real difference to mobile devices, then. But if you're looking for a
desktop solution then the company's older Ivy Bridge products currently deliver the best mix of price and
performance, and that's where its best deals are still to be found.
Cost
AMD is said to offer the same basic product at a cheaper price than Intel. Intel is established as the
market leader in producing motherboards and processing chips for personal computers, and their prices
and development have influenced AMD from the start. AMD produced “clones” of Intel products as well as
their own line of chip and motherboard development. The AMD Athlon XP processor runs very close to an
Intel 4 processor and is about half the price.

4. Intel vs. AMD: the AMD competition
If you're wondering how it is that Intel can get away with desktop processors which have changed so
little in previous years, the answer is simple: they just don't have much competition.
Partly that's because AMD has been trailing behind Intel for some time now, especially when it comes to
desktop performance. While the company has promised a lot, they've singularly failed to deliver, and just
can't compete with the best that Intel has to offer.
AMD has trailed Intel's best, but still has its strengths
When there are new products, then like Intel, AMD are generally more focused on the mobile space. As
we explained in our report on AMD's new A4, A6, A8 and A10 CPUs, for instance, the headline news is
the 21 per cent claimed increase in graphics speed. More general desktop performance only edges up by
perhaps 8 per cent.

5. Summary
Depending on what your PC is used for, the answer to the Intel vs. AMD question changes. In my
experience, users looking towards budget-level PCs (or even HTPC) have a choice between Intel
processors paired with the NVidia 9300 chipset, or AMD processors and the AMD 780G chipset. Both
routes are more than sufficient for home office or home theatre purposes. Intel definitely becomes a
favorite as system prices increase for gaming and content creation platforms. AMD is left in the dust as its
older 65nm processors lack the muscle needed to compete with Intel's York field and Wolf dale 45nm
offerings. In the gaming segment, the faster clock speeds of the E8000-series Core 2 Duo processors offer
the best performance for dual core friendly applications. At the upper end of the scale, the AMD vs. Intel
question gets a little complicated. If you can wait, be patient and buy into socket 1366 processor
platform. That being said, my best advice is to hold off on purchasing a PC system until the full range of
Intel Core i7 processors emerge, and there are more than a handful of super-enthusiast motherboards to
pick from. With its radical architecture changes, even a few months of waiting will mean a significantly
longer lifespan for your investment, and higher performance curves.
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