UNIT 5 ANALYSIS 1 1

Christian Henry

ITT Technical Institute

Computer Structure and Logic (NT1110)

Unit 5 Lab

17 Oct. 2015

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Unit 5 Lab

In a June addition of Tech Radar there was some discussion on the topic of which

processor is better and why. There was a lot of back and forth topic on these issues, so I will try

to cover what I found to be relevant in this discussion. I could boar with technical numbers of

calculating and over clocking schematic but here, we will look more at the consumer side of

which may or may not be better.

Firstly, I noticed one major difference between the two processors and that was price. If

you look at price and performance between the two you will see that the gap in cost over sees

the menial performance changes. For example an AMD processor may coast $50 and deliver

only slightly lower performances, where as Intel will charge almost three times the amount for

slightly higher performances. Now keep in mind that we are comparing apples to apples.

Because if we take into account over clocking and other performance enhancing techniques it

will affect the performance/price gap that we are seeing.

Another hot button issues is the fact that AMD has been trailing behind Intel for many

years especial in the desktop world of performance. While AMD has promised a lot, they have

simply failed to deliver multiple times on their accusations of out preforming Intel. In fact, AMD

has focused their efforts into the mobile market as seen with AMD’s new line of A series CPU’s

(A4, A6, A8, and A10).

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So with that which is best? I think it all depends on what you are looking for. At the low

end where price is an issue, you have AMD. The AMD A4 costs around $50 and while its

specifications are lack luster sporting only 2 cores and 1MB cache it would do just fine for e-

mail and web browsing. Compare this to Intel’s equivalent the i3-3225 sporting two cores and

3MB cache for $146. You end up paying almost $100 more for just 2MB of cache. Therefore, as

you can see, knowing what you needs are is critically important, and try to stay out of the “AMD

and Intel game”. Fit your system to your needs Intel offers a lot of choices and prices and I

believe that it makes them a leader in the CPU industry. However, there are still other choices.