Lets settle this, AMD or intel

[Brewins]

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.

[Snorek]

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.

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

[jsmit332]

I think an nvidia vs Radeon is in order.

[squall1066]

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 

[jsmit332]

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 

[squall1066]

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

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

[btcton]

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

[jrs99]

I prefer Intel as they offer high end performance

[BawsyBoss]

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

[BitcoinAddicts]

Intel because its more energy efficient if I understand right.

[ALToids]

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.

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

Check this out:
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. 

[Malin Keshar]

AMD because they have far better cost vs benefit

[DrG]

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.

[azguard]

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 ....

[300]

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.

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.