choucove
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I think Casey put it very well here. It does depend upon your situation and circumstances. When I am doing a system for a customer, the biggest reason why I would chose an AMD system over an Intel system is going to probably be related to cost. With a limited budget, AMD will offer a better value in general than the same cost spent on Intel. However, if you've got a much larger budget to work with, that advantage has less impact and it's more important to get the higher performance capable with Intel at higher prices.
I don't mean to sound like I'm touting and cheering only for AMD, yes I use them for the majority of systems we build, but even the new design workstations we put in at our office this winter were all using the same Intel Core i5-760 quad-core processor. An AMD Phenom II X6 1090T with six cores running at 3.2 Ghz would have been just as powerful (perhaps even a little more so) but it also runs hotter than the Core i5 processor and in testing found that the software performed identically on the Intel platform as it did on the AMD platform at identical costs. In the end, the deciding factor was heat. Even though the AMD processor has two more cores, for about everything that our office does the Intel processor performed just the same, but did so at lower temperatures.
Casey said it right, leave it to the experts. There are just so many factors depending upon your own circumstances that can make this decision because as it stands, one side cannot completely beat out the other in every situation.
The new Sandy Bridge systems from Intel are fabulous performance workhorses, you really just can't beat them. Yet. Of course in technology everything changes and this summer should see the revealing of AMD's new processor and platform, known as Bulldozer, which engineering samples for the workstation and server platform have already heralded great praises, as have the ultra-portable versions already shipping in many thin and light laptops known as Fusion. I'm curious how this new architecture will compare with today's systems as it addresses multitasking workloads radically improved compared to similar existing processors. About this same time, Intel will also be releasing its new LGA 2011 socket processor and platform, which will upgrade and (eventually) replace the LGA 1366 socket architecture of Nehalem. LGA 2011 promises to also bring integrated technologies (USB 3.0, SATA III, and perhaps even PCI-Express 3.0) to greatly increase performance just as when Nehalem originally released.
I don't mean to sound like I'm touting and cheering only for AMD, yes I use them for the majority of systems we build, but even the new design workstations we put in at our office this winter were all using the same Intel Core i5-760 quad-core processor. An AMD Phenom II X6 1090T with six cores running at 3.2 Ghz would have been just as powerful (perhaps even a little more so) but it also runs hotter than the Core i5 processor and in testing found that the software performed identically on the Intel platform as it did on the AMD platform at identical costs. In the end, the deciding factor was heat. Even though the AMD processor has two more cores, for about everything that our office does the Intel processor performed just the same, but did so at lower temperatures.
Casey said it right, leave it to the experts. There are just so many factors depending upon your own circumstances that can make this decision because as it stands, one side cannot completely beat out the other in every situation.
The new Sandy Bridge systems from Intel are fabulous performance workhorses, you really just can't beat them. Yet. Of course in technology everything changes and this summer should see the revealing of AMD's new processor and platform, known as Bulldozer, which engineering samples for the workstation and server platform have already heralded great praises, as have the ultra-portable versions already shipping in many thin and light laptops known as Fusion. I'm curious how this new architecture will compare with today's systems as it addresses multitasking workloads radically improved compared to similar existing processors. About this same time, Intel will also be releasing its new LGA 2011 socket processor and platform, which will upgrade and (eventually) replace the LGA 1366 socket architecture of Nehalem. LGA 2011 promises to also bring integrated technologies (USB 3.0, SATA III, and perhaps even PCI-Express 3.0) to greatly increase performance just as when Nehalem originally released.
