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AMD vs Intel Gaming. Upsetting the semiconductor industry is hard, particularly when you're fighting an entrenched and much-larger rival, and sometimes things get broken when you're redefining an industry. In AMD's case, those broken things consist of operating systems and applications that weren't tuned to extract the full performance of its fledgling first-gen Zen architecture, let alone the core-heavy designs of Zen 2 and Zen 3. Over the last year, Intel has addressed its laggardly driver updates for its integrated graphics, and the company has an army of software developers at its disposal that help ensure its products get relatively timely support with the latest software.
A decade of dominance also finds most software developers optimizing almost exclusively for Intel architectures. AMD has made amazing progress convincing the developer ecosystem to optimize for its radical new Zen architectures.
However, there's still plenty of work to be done as the company moves forward. The last few years have found security researchers poking and prodding at the speculative execution engine that's one of the key performance-boosting features behind all modern chips.
The resulting research has spawned an almost never-ending onslaught of new vulnerabilities that threaten the safety of your system and private data. Unfortunately, these types of vulnerabilities are incredibly dangerous because they are undetectable—these tactics steal data by using the processor exactly as it was designed; thus, they are undetectable by any known anti-virus program.
The rash of fixes required to plug these holes also continues to grow, and many of them result in reduced performance. That's particularly painful for Intel because it suffers from far more of these vulnerabilities than other vendors. Intel currently has publicly disclosed vulnerabilities , while AMD has only That's a difference in AMD's favor. It's hard to ascertain if these limited discoveries in AMD processors are due to a security-first approach to hardened processor design, or if researchers and attackers merely focus on Intel's processors due to their commanding market share: Attackers almost always focus on the broadest cross-section possible.
We see a similar trend with malware being designed for Windows systems, by far the predominant desktop OS, much more frequently than MacOS, though that does appear to be changing. Regardless, right now, AMD has had far fewer security holes to plug, and it made a few targeted in-silicon fixes for its Ryzen processors, thus lowering its exposure to the vulnerabilities. We've seen some of the fixes drop performance more than two or three architecture updates on Intel, which is particularly painful, and there's no end to these exploits in sight.
As things stand, Intel is susceptible to far more vulnerabilities than AMD. That could change as AMD gains market share, and security researchers increasingly turn their microscopes on its architecture.
For now, Intel processors require far more mitigations to improve their security standing. These mitigations often come with a performance penalty, and Intel tends to suffer larger performance losses than the few fixes we've seen from AMD, granting Team Red the win.
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Paul Alcorn. Topics CPUs. See all comments Lotsa info and no graphs?! I need my graphs. I disagree with the overclocking section, and I would say it's either a tie or a win for AMD. Just because Intel sets base speeds so much lower than actually achievable speeds so they can slap on a ridiculously low TDP doesn't mean they're better overclockers, it just means Intel wants a low number to mislead people as to their efficiency.
With AMD and Intel having all core boost speeds within a couple hundred megahertz, depending on cooling, of their single core boosts, and with both able to be manually overclocked to or past their all core boost clocks, often using less voltage than the boost voltage, it's pretty even there. AMD currently makes the best processor for the value. For the value of the Ryzen 5 and with games and programs using more cores, it's obvious the Ryzen series is a much better value than Intel.
In the end, competition is great for us! Alvar Miles Udell said:. Math Geek said:. I understand the reasoning of why all reviews are done on a clean install. Only way to compare apples to apples. However, no one games or does anything this way.
And pair it with a p monitor. And a clean install everytime they fire up a game, is misleading at best. But, let's assume this system exists. This gamer will be watching youtube and twitch, using discord, probably office, a HW monitoring suite, steam client, maybe streaming his awesomeness.
Not to mention all the other crap and registry stuff that happens to windows PC's over time. What happens to the numbers on a dirty system? Impossible to compare apples to apples in this scenario. But, an educated guess says that Ryzen with its multitasking advantages would really shine while intels CPU's would bog down.
Taking away Intels one advantage it has left. But, in-game frames and graphics settings are what matter to gamers. And despite the Ryzen 5 X's hardware advantages, the Intel Core iK delivers high frame rates on top-level settings. These two CPUs are shining examples of how far the Intel vs. Even entry-level CPUs provide excellent quality and substantial performance, especially in comparison to CPUs several generations old. For example, in my desktop is a now aging Intel Core iK, which can still handle most games on decent settings.
Both of these CPUs blow that i5 out of the water, both from the "bottom tier. Enough about that, let's talk about the processor specs and which CPU suits an entry-level gaming rig. Benchmarking tests show the i performing marginally better in single-core situations, with the Ryzen 3 X nudging ahead in multicore situations. However, that doesn't give it much extra in terms of gaming performance, with both cards returning very similar in-game frame rates.
AMD's development surge over the past years has closed the gap significantly. In many ways, AMD processors are better investments for the future, consistently delivering better multicore performance scores. There's another consideration, too. GPUs are another area that AMD has drastically stepped up its game, taking the fight to Nvidia in the battle for gaming supremacy. If you're a keen mobile gamer, you'll want a smartphone that can keep up.
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