AMD vs INTEL for gaming
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Geoff
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That was before last spring when the Core 2 Duo's were released. Since then, Intel has had the upper hand in gaming and multitasking.
Iluvpenguins
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He is right. Intel's line of Core 2's have been taking the spotlight away from AMD in gaming. AMD is currently the beached whale in the CPU market...Intel is providing consumers with superior performance and cheaper costs than Amd CPUs.
ThatGuy16
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Sure your not!
I think we both are!:
lmao, well... i have a new ATI card
weird if you think about it... lol
Im going to change my avatar ATI related l
The question has been sufficiently answered, and yes, the Core2Duo spanks the AMD. Just thought you might be interested in a little useless trivia.
Intel and AMD have been developing their dual cores for quite a while now. AMD bought up ATi and 4 other companies, not for their techs, but for their fabs. They dismantled most of ATi and retrofitted the fabs to produce processors. AMD made a prediction that they would ramp up shipments by 65% in the next few years, but they didn't have the fabs to do it. They spent a few billion on each fab to retrofit them. In the meantime, Intel was spending billions to retrofit each of their fabs.
Intel made a deal with AMD. They gave them a six month deadline to market the AMD dual core processors before Intel unleashed the C2D. For six months, AMD fanboys got to rejoice in the performance. At the six month mark, true to the agreement Intel unleashed the C2D and suddenly the fanboys went silent.
AMD licensed some of their tech to Transmeta, who doesn't actually fab processors, just designs them. Transmeta sued and settled with Intel for patent infringements. It's to Intel's advantage to have AMD as a "competitor", thus the agreement, allowing AMD to recover some of it's costs. I don't think the paper-company Transmeta impressed them much, however.
Intel and AMD have been developing their dual cores for quite a while now. AMD bought up ATi and 4 other companies, not for their techs, but for their fabs. They dismantled most of ATi and retrofitted the fabs to produce processors. AMD made a prediction that they would ramp up shipments by 65% in the next few years, but they didn't have the fabs to do it. They spent a few billion on each fab to retrofit them. In the meantime, Intel was spending billions to retrofit each of their fabs.
Intel made a deal with AMD. They gave them a six month deadline to market the AMD dual core processors before Intel unleashed the C2D. For six months, AMD fanboys got to rejoice in the performance. At the six month mark, true to the agreement Intel unleashed the C2D and suddenly the fanboys went silent.
AMD licensed some of their tech to Transmeta, who doesn't actually fab processors, just designs them. Transmeta sued and settled with Intel for patent infringements. It's to Intel's advantage to have AMD as a "competitor", thus the agreement, allowing AMD to recover some of it's costs. I don't think the paper-company Transmeta impressed them much, however.
Fabrication plants. Where they make the chips.
shenry
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Thunderbirds quote FTW!!
Anyway...At the moment AMD are a little behind. When I got my AMD rig the C2D's were really expensive and AMD seemed the route to go! But know the C2D's are a lot cheaper and seem to be the best for gaming, except for maybe the new intel CPU's coming out.
JLV2k5
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How far behind should be the next question. AMD is significantly lower in price but if their rival chips aren't THAT far behind Intel in performance than it shouldn't be as much of an issue. I'm sure, regardless of common selection, if you have a considerable budget in mind it is wise to choose AMD. Feedback?
lovely?
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thats quite an understatement. the company and the companies under it are worth alltogether 4.25 billion dollars. AMD PAYED more then that, just to aquire ATI. AMD isnt a little behind, they need to be bought out and fast by a company like Samsung
Ok, how many people just finished telling you that AMD isn't even a contender, just to have you come out with this?
Iluvpenguins
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trust me...their significant lower price isn't that significant...an E2*** series outdoes AMD's CPU's since they can overclock insanely and have the same size of L2 Cache...and its cheaper. AMD is in the crapper to be quite honest, to compete with that is hard.