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By John Loeffler
last updated 26 September 2022
The battle between AMD and Intel rages on
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AMD and Intel have been duking it out on the proverbial CPU maker stage for years, and it seems like as of 2022 the competition between them is only heating up with the introduction of brand new technologies and chips.
In the past, if you were looking for a decent CPU with a budget-friendly price, your go-to choice was AMD. However, with their newest generation of Ryzen CPUs, AMD has been on par or even surpassed Intel components on price.
We noted in our AMD Ryzen 9 5900X review how the price of the 5900X went up $50 (about £35, AU$70) over the Ryzen 9 3900X it replaced. The AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, meanwhile, is even more expensive with an MSRP of $799 which is the same price as Intel's new Alder Lake Core i9-12900K processor.
This is more or less the pattern now as you move down the stack to the Core i7 and Ryzen 7, and the Core i5 and Ryzen 5 processors. And while AMD Ryzen processors, which will be released tomorrow, are generally going to be cheaper than and equivalent to Intel chips, the price difference is narrow enough now that depending on where you get the processor, you could end up paying more for an AMD chip than an Intel one.
In the other direction, if you're in the market for a really high-end CPU and have super deep pockets, the third generation of AMD Threadripper units is the best choice for professional 3D modeling artists, animators, filmmakers, and data scientists.
So you've set yourself a budget for a new CPU, but you still have a ton of options when it comes to performance.
If you're looking for pure, raw performance then the Intel Alder Lake chips are going to serve you very well. The most powerful processor overall in the consumer class is the Core i9-12900K, which outperforms anything comparable that AMD is putting out and it's not even really close.
If we were to compare apples to apples, as we did in our Intel Core i9-12900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X breakdown, then the Ryzen 9 5900X comes in at a lower cost than the Core i9-12900K (and that's not even factoring in the new motherboard and cooling you likely need for it).
The Ryzen 9 5900XT is a 12-core, 24-thread processor that maxes out at a boost frequency of 4.8GHz and a whopping 70MB of cache memory. And the two new chips that will be launching tomorrow, the Ryzen 9 7950X and the Ryzen 7 7700X, have 16/32 and 8/16 core and thread counts, respectively.
The Core i9-12900K is a 16-core processor, but only eight of those cores are dual-threaded performance cores. The other eight are efficiency cores that are single-threaded and less powerful, but take on all of the low-level background tasks. This frees up the performance cores to dedicate themselves to tackling heavy workloads.
This means that the total number of threads available for workloads is the same, but the difference comes in how those threads are used, and whatever Intel is doing is definitely working.
Intel's approach to its next gen processors looks a lot like Apple's. With the M1 chip, Apple moved to a hybrid architecture that had long powered mobile phones and tablets and is only just now making it to mobile and destop PCs. This architecture, known as 'hybrid-core architecture', uses a mix of performance and efficiency cores and delegates tasks to specific cores based on their priority and processing demands.
This introduces a lot of efficiency into the processor by better managing its resources (why use up an entire full-fat thread to poll a keyboard to see if a key was pressed? It's a waste of energy, and this efficiency is how Arm's big.LITTLE chips are able to get such extraordinary battery life. And now, those performance cores are powerful enough to absolutely blow through major computing tasks like video editing and gaming in ways that wasn't possible even a few years ago.
How that technology develops will be interesting to see because it looks like AMD is explicitly not going in that direction with their processors. Instead, AMD and semiconductor fabricator TSMC are co-developing a 3D chip-stacking process that introduces more verticality to the traditional processor chiplets.
It was this technology that allowed AMD to introduce a whole new 3D V-Cache chiplet on top of the processor die that expanded the pool of available cache memory for the eight processor cores of the Ryzen 7 5800X to create the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, and the result seriously impressive.
These are two different technologies that could radically transform how computer processors are designed and produced in the future, adding a lot more depth and complexity to the AMD vs Intel debate we've been having for years now. How these two technologies diverge and interact in the next several years could chart the course for consumer computing for decades to come.
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Not to mention Intel's best gaming processor also has a base clock speed of 3.6GHz and 5.0GHz turbo unlocked speeds. While Intel is the best for gaming, AMD Ryzen did come in at a close second with its best offering, the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X. This processor offers more cores and threads than the Intel Core i9-9900K (12 and 24 respectively), but it ...
In 2020, AMD debuted the Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs including the high-end Ryzen 9 processor. AMD’s latest line of processors are primed to compete against Intel’s current Core i3, i5, i7 and i9 ...
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Oct 7, 2021 · One area where AMD does undeniably dominate the market is in gaming consoles – custom AMD chips power both the Sony PlayStation and Xbox Series X/S lines, whereas Intel doesn't get a look in ...
Jul 5, 2022 · The Intel Core i5-9600K was $320. Both CPUs can be found at roughly the same price today, but they're not identical. AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X comes unlocked with 6 cores and 12 threads. Intel's Core i5 ...
