AMD Vs Intel

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SpyderTracks

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So some of you aren't aware of the reasons why so many people are heading away from Intel to AMD, so thought it would be important to lay that out for people to refer back to.

A lot of you will go to cpubenchmark or userbenchmark to find performance metrics for CPU's. These sites are complete nonsense made up of irrelevant algorithm metrics which have no relation to real world performance. Intel will almost alway appear a better option on these site, as they are intentionally Intel biased... basically they were paid off to boost intel sales and mislead you:




Intel have really really messed up in the CPU space. They are stuck on a 5 year old architecture called "Skylake" which is on a very old 14nm fabrication process. Basically, every CPU they've released since 2015 has been the same design just overclocked further and with more cores added. This has led to many many issues with their current lineup still ongoing now, and they've alluded to the fact they're stuck on Skylake until 2022, and then they will be moving to 10nm which they've already admitted is going to be no better than 14nm.



The reason for this is that AMD offered no competition until Lisa Su took over the company at the end of 2014. She has quite literally transformed the company, and it's NOTHING like it used to be. She brought about the Ryzen line of processors, and Threadripper enthusiast chips and Epyc server processors which instantly started showing a lot of promise. Ryzen 3000 is on 7nm fabrication, which relates to better IPC (instructions per clock), better power efficiency, and better performance per watt.

We're now on the 3rd generation of Ryzen, with 4th Gen being released in October. The current chips beat Intel in almost every metric, the only area that Intel still win is 1080p competitive gaming. When you hear "Intel are the gaming king", this is simply referring to 1080p high refresh rate which only applies to a very small fraction of gamers.

There are loads of issues with Intel:

1/. Thermals:
These chips are a very old design and as such are just overclocked further with each release and perhaps have a couple more cores added. Each time this happens, it takes extra cooling power to keep them within operational limits. Anyone with a relatively modern Intel laptop will understand how hard they are to keep from thermal throttling. On desktops, the price is increased as you have to have premium AIO coolers to effectively manage them.

2/. Security issues: I'm sure you've heard of Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws, these are just 2 of the hundreds of serious low level data leaks that occur on processors. Those two affected almost all CPU's including AMD and Intel. BUT there have been hundreds found since which only affect Intel, and to make matters worse, a lot of them are unable to be patched, but the ones that are patched at the OS or BIOS level further reduce performance on the CPU. One of our top guys measured his Skylake processor with the security patches disabled and there was a 25% performance hit with all the current mitigations applied on windows compared to without those mitigations. This situation is only going to get worse, and can't be fixed until Intel create a new design and move away from Skylake architecture. Most security researchers agree that the only way to truly mitigate these flaws is to disable hyperthreading.



3/. Expense: Intel is an expensive platform for fewer features and less performance in 90% of areas.... for any component. When we talk about platform, we mean CPU, motherboard, PSU, Cooler and **RAM** (Ram not relevant in this case). The CPU's are expensive compared to AMD, the motherboards are likewise, and to get unlocked motherboard options such as being able to benefit from RAM over 2933MHz, you HAVE to buy a top tier Z490 board which comes at a distinct premium. There is absolutely NO NEED for them to do this other than to force enthusiasts to buying the top tier expensive boards.


Because the chips are just overclocked 2015 processors, they use SUBSTANTIALLY more power than AMD chips. So you need a higher rate PSU to accomodate that which again means more money. Cooler has already been addressed above.

4/. Performance: Currently with AMD 3000 series, Intel only win in one metric which is 1080p 360Hz which is only used for competitive gaming. 1080p is not supported anymore with the latest NVidia 3000 series GPU's, it's incredibly old and really poor visually compared to anything higher. Outside of single core performance where Intel currently have higher frequencies, AMD absolutely destroys Intel in multithreaded workloads, in some applications by as much as DOUBLE the performance for the same cost. That's no joke! All reports are that AMD 4000 series processors will put the nail in the coffin for Intel on single core also.


So if you're a competitive gamer, we would currently ALWAYS suggest an Intel 10700k or 10900k, they are without a doubt better for that application. BUT this may change with Zen 3 AMD processors in October.

BUT LITERALLY EVERYWHERE ELSE, AMD IS JUST A BETTER OPTION. This is coming from myself and most of us on the forum who have been using intel for over 10 years as they were hands down the best. We are not against Intel per se, we're just pro performance and cost benefits.






 
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SpyderTracks

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Just an update, UserBenchmark have not stepped down off their falsehoods with the benchmarks of AMD Ryzen 5000 series.

This is what they're saying when you look at the 5800x:

"The Ryzen 7 5800X is one of four new processors from AMD’s latest range of Zen 3 CPUs. The new architecture is more power efficient than Zen 2 and also yields significant performance improvements. All four new CPUs have the ‘X’ nomenclature, indicating that they are tuned to their maximum clock speeds out-of-box. The 5800X has 8 cores and 16 threads with base/boost clock speeds of 3.8/4.7 GHz, 36 MB of cache and a 105W TDP. At $449 USD, the 5800X is relatively expensive but it still offers better value than the 5900X which has comparable Effective Speed. A 500 series motherboard is recommended but the new Zen 3 CPUs will work with most 400 series motherboard following a BIOS update (expected in Q1 2021). At AMD’s launch presentation, they said they finally had the best CPUs for gaming. Our benchmarks show that the 5800X is comparable to Intel’s $250 USD cheaper i5-9600K. Gamers that do not wish to pay “marketing fees” can invest those savings in a better GPU which will produce an unquestionably better gaming PC. [Nov '20 CPUPro]"

Obviously utter garbage. DON'T USE USERBENCHMARK OR ANY COMPARISON SITE!!!

 
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SpyderTracks

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A further update, as most of you will know, AMD have now released their 4th Gen Ryzen 5000 series processors, and these have quite firmly put the lid on Intels coffin in the final realm of single threaded performance. There is literally no reason to buy Intel anymore unless your a fanboy.

The £300 5600x vastly outperforms Intels top dog £500 i9 10900k by around 10%, the further up you go on AMD's lineup the faster they get:



At Pricepoint, the 5900x is Intels 10900k competitor, and it's just an entirely different league in all metrics:



 
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