Intel has been the premier x86 chipmaker for decades, with advanced fabrication technology and leading chip architecture to allow computers to break barriers, and run faster and more efficient than ever. AMD has been offering processors for over 30 years, however many would argue that AMD has served as merely a clone-maker for much of it’s life, breaking away from that mold with the introduction of the X86-64 architecture, allowing for 64bit memory access along with other features, allowing AMD to offer a compelling feature set that Intel couldn’t match with it’s desktop line of CPU’s, and could only match with it’s specialized and expensive Itanium series of processors. AMD wound up winning in the desktop space, with the market adopting AMD’s architecture as the dominant choice in the market.

Likewise, AMD has recently been pushing Intel to incorporate additional cores into it’s processors. Unfortunately for AMD, Intel’s per-core performance has almost universally exceeded AMD’s, at least at the high end of the market, and Intel has routinely offered better efficiency, enabling longer battery life and more. AMD’s latest series of Ryzen 3000 CPUs have made quite a splash recently, with higher efficiency than the previous Ryzen 1000/2000 series of CPU’s, and has also increased the per-core performance to near parity with Intel’s top desktop processors. AMD has done this while typically offering additional cores per dollar, allowing AMD to offer a higher value when users require high multi-threaded performance for tasks like 3d design, multimedia production, and scientific applications. Manufacturers like Dell, HP and more are responding by offering more systems with AMD processors, offering consumers a great alternative to common Intel systems.

Talk to an Aces Support Representative to discuss what type of system you should choose, for your given applications and requirements.