Posted October 26, 2022
Well, that's at least half of the truth. Intel was faster when it came to floating point operations, where AMDs integer unit was better ... and AMD consumed also less power.
The winner really dependet on what the test focused on.
Intel did have the overall better performance in games than AMD, but the difference was not all that big.
Most games at that time were not able to use multiple cores, so for gaming AMDs advantage over Intel was irrelevant, it was a much better choice for productive work however.
Only with the release of the i5 4xxx, Intel was clearly ahead when it came to gaming. At that time, AMD had nothing to counter that for a while.
I liked my AMD 8 core CPUs, because I could play and have stuff run in background without having to worry about anything. When I changed to Intel (to the i5 with 4 cores), I was shocked how bad my PCs performance was, with AMD I had completely forgotten how stuttering on hard disk access felt like. But for playing at that moment it was the only viable choice, so I stuck with it until AMD did catch up.
The winner really dependet on what the test focused on.
Intel did have the overall better performance in games than AMD, but the difference was not all that big.
Most games at that time were not able to use multiple cores, so for gaming AMDs advantage over Intel was irrelevant, it was a much better choice for productive work however.
Only with the release of the i5 4xxx, Intel was clearly ahead when it came to gaming. At that time, AMD had nothing to counter that for a while.
I liked my AMD 8 core CPUs, because I could play and have stuff run in background without having to worry about anything. When I changed to Intel (to the i5 with 4 cores), I was shocked how bad my PCs performance was, with AMD I had completely forgotten how stuttering on hard disk access felt like. But for playing at that moment it was the only viable choice, so I stuck with it until AMD did catch up.