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your credentials secure by signing up for a free account today!Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc, or AMD, is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara,
California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and
consumer markets.
Intel Corporation is also an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered
in Silicon Valley, California.
Intel is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip manufacturer,
based on revenue, after being overtaken by Samsung.
Two large, competitive corporations, battling it out to stay ahead of one and other.
So how do they stack up side by side?
That's what we'll find out, in this this episode of The Infographics Show: AMD vs INTEL.
AMD and Intel are fierce rivals in the world of Central Processing Units, or CPU's.
But why is the CPU you choose to buy, so important?
Well, it's pretty simple really.
If you're in the market for a new computer, which CPU you choose, can have a major impact
on the performance of your new machine.
But of course it's always a challenge choosing the best product for an individual's particular
situation, so let's take a step back and first look at what the CPU's are all about.
If a computer was a person, then the CPU is the brain.
It is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer
program, by performing the basic arithmetic, logic, control, and input & output operations.
The CPU is a fixed component within the computer, whereas, things such as Random Access Memory,
or RAM, and hard disk storage, can often be upgraded.
But the type of CPU you choose, in this case AMD or Intel, has an impact on the performance
of your PC.
So it's an important choice.
AMD and Intel have been rivals in this space for nearly 50 years, though Intel is slightly
older than AMD.
Intel was founded by Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore in 1968, and in 1974 it developed the
8080 processor, which became the foundation for the x86 processors that were used in desktop
PCs for nearly 30 years.
As for AMD, the company was founded in 1969.
Jerry Sanders was AMD's first president and CEO.
AMD was, and still is, a smaller company than Intel, with a different business model.
AMD doesn't actually build their own chips; they design them and then outsource the manufacturing
process.
In 2006, rivalry between the two companies picked up, when AMD acquired ATI, a Graphics
Processing Unit or GPU, manufacturer.
This allowed AMD to deliver GPU's that live on the same chip as the CPU.
This was a technological leap for AMD and a competitive factor in the portable device
market, one of the fastest developing areas at that time.
So how does the tech compare for these two chip developers?
Intel sits well with high end products and the most expensive models running Intel, tend
to outperform competitors in overall performance.
This is especially important in software that involves extremely complicated calculations,
Photoshop, or other more complex renderings.
Most of Intel's CPUs draw less heat and have lower Thermal Design Point, or TDP ratings,
which comes down to Intel's method of hyperthreading.
According to Intel, hyperthreading "uses processor resources more efficiently, enabling
multiple threads to run on each core.
It also increases processor throughput, improving overall performance on threaded software."
AMD has a different strategy.
They put their focus on increasing the number of cores.
This can result in chips that run at higher temperatures, but then AMD uses a process
called overclocking, which essentially means setting a CPU and memory to run at speeds
higher than their official speed grade.
AMD CPU's typically overclock with more reliability than the Intel processor, giving
users a greater potential to tweak their devices, according to personal preferences.
AMD chips are also considered by some to be a better value.
Entry level prices for an AMD unit can be lower than the price of an equivalently functional
Intel CPU.
But though AMD might be said to offer more cores for a lower price, Intel's hyperthreading
can be considered another competitive factor as you're increasing functionality, without
increasing the number of cores.
So how does the landscape look in 2018 for these two CPU market dominators?
Well AMD already has highly capable desktop processors available, including the all powerful
Ryzen 9 series of CPUs.
In 2018, the company is focusing on an area that has traditionally been a weakness, portable
Windows 10 PCs.
Laptops, notebooks, and other devices run Intel processors, so it's a major development
hotspot for AMD.
The new Ryzen Mobile CPU line includes Vega graphics processing, and we're likely to
see these CPU's powering portable computers.
The company recently launched the AMD Ryzen 7 2700U and the Ryzen 5 2500U.
Both come with a thermal design power, or TDP, of just 15W, opening the door to ultrabooks.
AMD says these processors will outperform the Intel Core i5-7600K desktop processor,
whilst being six times more power efficient.
Big news for AMD, and now the responsibility of their device partners to penetrate the
market.
And it's not just laptops that come with Vega graphics.
The Ryzen 5 2400G and the Ryzen 3 2200G desktop processors include a discrete Vega GPU.
The Ryzen 5 2400G is near enough as capable as an Intel Core i5-8400 paired with an NVIDIA
GTX 1030, yet costs around $100 less.
Good news for those crypto miners looking for more cost effective mining solutions.
As AMD charges ahead with the launch of Ryzen, Intel is being forced to pick up the pace,
in order to remain competitive.
2017 saw the introduction of Coffee Lake, Intel's codename for the third 14 nm process
refinement following Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake.
Desktop Coffee Lake CPUs represented a major change in Intel's Core CPUs nomenclature,
with i5 and i7 CPUs featuring six cores and i3 CPUs, having four cores and dropping hyper-threading
for the first time.
And rumored to launch later in 2018, is a new EPYC server CPU with 64 cores, 256 MB
of L3 cache, using Global Foundries' 7nm production process, and support for DDR4-3200.
Canon Lake is already out, with production set to ramp up as we move further into 2018.
Ice Lake will follow late this year or 2019.
Both of these architectures are based on Intel's 10nm production process.
Though on Intel's most recent earnings call, CEO Brian Krzanich came clean on the fact
that the company is struggling with its 10-nm process technology, and those struggles are
preventing Intel from achieving good yields of 10-nm chips.
Sweet words to the ears of the AMD executive team, no doubt.
So these two chip corporations look like they'll continue to be rivals for a good time to come.
They are different beasts from a market share perspective, and though they were close in
2006, with roughly 90% of the market shared equally, as of the second quarter of 2017,
Intel owned 69% verses AMD's 31%.
But AMD is making gains on Intel in 2018.
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Are you a tech geek?
And if so, which CPU is your processing unit of choice and why?
Let us know in the comments!
Also, be sure to check out our other video called PC Gaming vs Console Gaming!
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