As many of you know, Intel seems to be always one step ahead of AMD when it comes to CPU. Everyone says: "Intel AMD kicks butt." But is this really true?
Just a few years, AMD is kicking Intel's ass with his own, a new dual-core processor, the Athlon X2's. They were one step ahead of Intel at the time when Intel was still on the Pentium series, and everyone had a AMD processor. AMD has been, and Intel seemed to be slipping away.
However, two years ago, Intel, AMD countered with its own dual-core processor series, Intel's Core2Duo. Now this is one big monster, he almost beat the heck out of any AMD CPU. Since overclocking capabilities for processing power, Intel Core2Duo processors AMD is left in the dust. Since then, Intel has always one step ahead of AMD, whether it is a quad-core CPU in the development of 45nm CPUs.
See, Intel seems to be much better than AMD right? But this is not the whole truth. Intel beats AMD processors CPU in some benchmarks, but when it comes to running on Intel CPUs AMD CPUs and shoulder to shoulder with all the default settings, they are actually quite close. Remember, numbers do not tell the whole truth. It's like a graphics card: you will have the greatest number of benchmarks in your group of friends, but you will not notice much difference between the two screens. Same with the CPU,. Intel will beat AMD when it comes to overclocking and other non-default settings, but when it comes to raw performance at stock settings, some AMD CPUs actually come close to Intel CPUs
So, why does everyone think Intel is much better than AMD? Mainly because of the marketing and media. We are all influences of the media without noticing, and if someone is thoughtful enough to put Intel and AMD processors standard processor benchmarks side by side, no one will notice.
