Which brand is typically better at certain tasks?

[Scougar]

Hopefully (oh lord.. can of worms here!) this can be a sensible discussion on the tasks that AMD and Intel are each typically better at performing.

I will pretty much always recommend Intel at the moment if someone has the money, but that got me thinking. Surely there are tasks that AMD is good at, and Intel likewise. What are they, and why?

 

[Blackbadger]

At the moment Intel Dominates pretty much all areas.

Multi threaded tasks
Single threaded tasks
Power efficiency
Integrated graphics

As there are so many chips from each vendor with different price points, there are a few cross over points where Amd can be a competitive alternative, depending on required usage. These tend to be at the lower end of the market. So if a budget is very limited Amd can at times offer a slightly better bang for the buck. However if it is performance you are after, they currently offer no alternative whatsoever.

 

[mmj_uk]

It's more a case of what are the situations that AMD aren't poor at and I think they are quite specialised areas such as encoding, VM's and perhaps heavy multitasking, basically anything that loads and uses all of the available cores. With Intel it doesn't really matter what task you are performing performance will be strong all across the board.

 

[Dave2150]

Hopefully (oh lord.. can of worms here!) this can be a sensible discussion on the tasks that AMD and Intel are each typically better at performing.

I will pretty much always recommend Intel at the moment if someone has the money, but that got me thinking. Surely there are tasks that AMD is good at, and Intel likewise. What are they, and why?

As the other posters have said already, there is nothing that the AMD FX CPU's are better at than Intel Skylake or Haswell-E.

The Intel CPU's also have a modern chipset, whereas the AMD FX CPU's use a chipset from 2011, which lacks native PCI-E 3.0, DDR4, USB3, USB3.1, M.2 and a bunch of other features.

 

[5960xNvidiaGamer]

If your skint get AMD, if you want the best get Intel.

 

[Scougar]

Have to admit, I genuinely didn't expect that response of Intel dominate everything. I was surprised at the mention of Intel being better with integrated graphics though.

 

[Concrete]

FX chips are:

Cheap
Fun to overclock
Fast enough to cope with any real-world task

They just aren't the fastest, if that bothers you.

 

[eddiew]

Have to admit, I genuinely didn't expect that response of Intel dominate everything. I was surprised at the mention of Intel being better with integrated graphics though.

I didn't expect that either, tbh, but googling around I find things like...

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Proces...irst-Enthusiasts/Integrated-Graphics-Performa

...which primarily hands Intel the win with Broadwell. It's less clear cut with Skylake/desktops however.

Other than that, I concur with others that Intel simply dominate everything. Upsetting isn't it?

 

[foster grant]

I wouldn't buy an AMD CPU again

 

[~>Dg<~]

i never had a issue with any amd cpu.

so if on a budget i would definitely use one if i needed to.

intel are faster but generally you pay for that.


if you in the budget section do you really need the extra speed for what is probably 90 percent just browsing the net ?

 

[DragonQ]

Intel is typically better at computing tasks. AMD is typically better at inducing nostalgia.

 

[Scougar]

Interesting to see Broadwell doing significantly better than it's other iGPU's, even skylake. I wonder if that changes when discrete cards are used?

Not at all attempting to defend here when I ask this, but what is the price of Broadwell compared to 7870k for example? (The latest AMD APU).

Really appreciate the info btw, I never knew that Intel were catching up in this area.

I wouldn't buy an AMD CPU again

That is not what this thread is for, please stay on topic

 

[neiljwd]

This topic may be relevant when Zen hits, but right now it's just downright depressing. My 2 self builds, the PC's that were mine have both been AMD's. As they offered (with little debate) the best bang for buck in my limited budget price range at the times. So I have a fondness for them. This upgrade cycle, I looked and searched for some area, some argument to go AMD, but unless you're just making a cheap as chips bare bones email PC there's no price point that makes sense to go AMD.

 

[teabaghead]

As the other posters have said already, there is nothing that the AMD FX CPU's are better at than Intel Skylake or Haswell-E.

The Intel CPU's also have a modern chipset, whereas the AMD FX CPU's use a chipset from 2011, which lacks native PCI-E 3.0, DDR4, USB3, USB3.1, M.2 and a bunch of other features.

This is what would put me off going amd

 

[Scougar]

Ok, well it is a resounding Intel is better at everything (price withstanding).

Would be interesting to see what happens to these opinions and performance when money comes into the equation, as that seems to be the only way they can compete ... or is it?

 

[eddiew]

...Would be interesting to see what happens to these opinions and performance when money comes into the equation...

I'm reasonably sure that AMD hold the 'best performance for the money' cap, while Intel have the 'best performance' crown

For 'most users,' AMD is likely fine, and if someone only has say £400 to build a new gaming PC, you'll probably get a better performer by going AMD and reallocating the money towards the GPU. The higher the available budget, the more you want to focus on Intel. (IMHO )

 

[TubbyGreg]

It depends on the price range.

 

[ukxenon]

Amd have good all in ones for media pc

 

[passey89]

Amd havent release a new generation desktop cpu for 3 years.

Apus they keep updating but there only really usefull in htpc's which is the only area amd are good at atm.
Chuck a nice apu into a htpc and it will be better than an intel with igpu. As soon as you put dedicated gpus into it though amd goes down the drain.

 

[Orcvader]

Have to admit, I genuinely didn't expect that response of Intel dominate everything. I was surprised at the mention of Intel being better with integrated graphics though.

It's mostly thanks to Iris graphics with that huge fast cache. AMD's very own CPU bottlenecks the GPU.