Bitcoin Forum

This question has been asked for ages. It seems AMD have more cores and clock speed but intel has more effieient cores and hyper threading (not sure though). So what do you prefer or have. Who wins, you decide.

AMD for me, have used them for years never spec Intel

i am shifting to amd soon   intel is costly

I love my Intel i5 processor, runs smooth and fine with no complaints   ;)

Intel all day, everyone is runnin I5/7 chips now a days.

The only good thing AMD brings is bargain chips for the low priced builds.

Intel has better $/performance for gaming. AMD has better $/performance for non-gaming computations.

I think it would be good if people could justify their opinion with technical detail to make this more interesting.

Yeah I've never understood the Intel vs AMD argument to me things look pretty close right now, I remember people saying AMD processors just weren't as good awhile back but that seems to be changing.

Currently Intel,but AMD cpus are better and will take over once console peasants decide they start using all 8 cores.

Intel all the way.

Intel puts more money into R&D than is worth each and every year.

Intel is probably years and years ahead, but aren't releasing their products because it'd just destroy AMD and they'd become a monopoly.

They're playing the nice guys here, imho.

Amd is cheap and offers almost the same speed, if you dont care about money then go with intel.

I prefer Intel,I'm using it for years,now. :)

I do not have a preference. Most desktop/laptop manufacturers only make Intel based systems. I could go out of the way to look for an AMD system, but I don't have a reason to. CPU performance is not my main criteria when choosing systems, I would rather have a lower tier CPU and spend more on memory.

The difference between AMD and intel for gaming.
Firstly, you need to decide what your priorities are, and what you will use the PC for.
Things such as: light gaming, heavy gaming, basic work (e.g. MS Office), heavy work (e.g. video editing, 3d modeling).
For the most part in current games the biggest difference will be made by the selection of the GPU. Get a great GPU + worse CPU rather than worse GPU + great CPU.
The AMD FX CPU's have many cores, which are weaker.

intel i5's have less cores, which are stronger.
The intel's consequently have better performance per core. In older games, the intels perform much better as those games are optimised for good performance with only a few cores (single-threading).
In newer games, the AMD FX's really shine due to the introduction of games using more cores (multi-threading).

Hope you can understand if you have budget for gaming pc over then 500 dollars you can go with Intel and buy a good gpu .. as i mentioned above you have can get a Amd processor but good GPU .. :)

Really depend on what you do.

For GPU mining, AMD will do fine.

For performance wise, intel beats AMD.

Is there really that much difference between them? I bet most couldn't notice the difference between comparable chips.

In honesty i think you get what you pay for if you want very good performance on a realistic budget AMD is the best but if you want all out performance intel is the best.

Cyrix FTW!  Whoops, had a flashback to 1996 lol.  Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

I had AMD machines back in the Athlon XP and Duron days, even an Opteron 144.  Been Intel more or less before and after.

Holy hell were Cyrix chips ever garbage.

Yeah I know.  I bought one Cyrix chip and board and it couldn't even install Win 95 without blue screening several times.  I swapped the board twice and the CPU once and continued to have problems.  Went to an AMD setup and had the machine running in 2 hours.

Sometimes competition for the sake of competition is not so good  :D

From my experiences, I prefer AMD. I have a computer build in 2009 with AMD and it still can run modern games launched this year, and I don't have off board graph card. Also one AMD laptop lasted more than two years with 8+ daily hour of usage and lots of falls and impacts.


But I never experienced really high performance gamming(that is: running the last crysis, launched one month ago, using the maximum graphics). Intel has fame of having the best graphic cards for games, and being the best for parallel computing. Also its said that Intel CPU are less power-comsuming.


In the other hand, AMDs usually are cheaper, and are far best for GPU mining and stuff.

Lol Cyrix, thanks for the memories :D It was so long time ago...I feel old :(

I think an nvidia vs Radeon is in order.

To solve this you have to go a little back in time, Intel had more math co-processors, Making it the daddy of calculations (MIPS-MOPS) thus winning any office database compiling, meaning businesses preferred Intel, Now AMD was classed faster at bus I/O making it more responsive to the voodoo 3000 GPU making it a winner with gamers.

Showing my age a little here, THERE IS NOTHING TO SETTLE NOW. The difference between any same generation chip is minuscule, It is much more relying on other components for the full experience of the machine than the chip alone.

In short, I have spend far too much money on the latest best chip, Only to spend too much time on minesweeper/retro games (EMU's) and flash games.

Nuff said  ::)

Good points. Also there is nothing official to settle this was just for fun  :)

I know, Just wanted to get one of these in.  :o

http://www.clker.com/cliparts/X/U/F/n/K/b/rowing-oars.svg

Intel all the way. For non-gaming purposes I would probably consider AMD as well.

I prefer Intel as they offer high end performance

I use Intel for the higher performance and stability, but many of you will probably disagree with me.

Intel because its more energy efficient if I understand right.

Check this out:
http://www.cpushack.com/CyrixShirtsandstuff.html (http://www.cpushack.com/CyrixShirtsandstuff.html)

I remember getting a 486-DX2 66 in 1993 because I couldn't afford the extra $500 for the entry Pentium for college.  They used to have those Microsource catalogs around the country and I found some good deals through those.

Intel today has the energy efficiency in their corner, but AMD was better on a per watt basis for a short period of time. 

AMD because they have far better cost vs benefit

cost vs benefit?  The only benefit I can see form a CPU is computer power, and Intel is currently leading in raw crunching performance per $ and performance per watt.

I still have some old Athlons and can still see the place where I did the pencil trick.  Ahh the good old days. Much better than when my Cryix rig and my AMD k5 blew up.

AMD and INTEL are good. Choice is on user to pick one.

I use home AMD kids are on PC most of the time playing games listening music ect.

In office i have INTEL and for work sure is better for what I do off course.

Yet it is on user to determine what is best for him/her in any means necessary and for what is will be used mining, gaming, working ....

Interestingly, things were the exact opposite back in the early 2000's. Intel had high clock speeds but an inefficient architecture. AMD had lower clock speeds but were more efficient. Gamers back then tended to prefer AMD too.