Which runs better? AMD or INTEL?

I gotta tell ya man, I used to be a true believer in Intel products and my PCs always had a sticker that read, "Intel Inside". But, I got a deal on a new HP desktop about a year ago..and it runs an AMD X2 processor. Maybe it's the Vista OS. Maybe it's the 2 Gigs of onboard memory. I don't know...but this machine totally rocks my world. I hav never had a complete system crash, like the kind I used to get on my older PCs. Every great great once in awhile, a program will stall on me, but that's rare.

At this point I think it's simply a toss-up between the two. It's like Ford or General Motors.

AMD for Value (better price/performance ratio)

Intel for Power (makes the faster top end product)

In terms of heat that just depends on what product your specifically looking at. In the past AMD has definitely produced a power hungry and high temperature processors but with the Phenom II they've made some great strides in utilizing less power overall, a lot less when idle, and run cooler. The overall AMD platform (AMD chipset) actually uses a lot less power than most Intel platforms. The x58 chipset is a power hog.

Intel has faster processors than AMD clock for clock, but for the average user AMD has good processors for laptops and Intel would be the better choice for a PC. AMD does make cheaper processors that are dual/tri/quad core and you should buy them if you don't need the extra edge of power.

On the contrary, the Intel processors take 90 - 95 Watts, generating less heat on a 45 nm die processor. The AMD's usually run hotter and pull more watts (110 - 140 Watts, depending on model). I think Intel runs cooler, and AMD runs hotter, just for this fact alone. Of course, it really doesn't matter if you have an adequate cooling solution, does it? - But it will save on energy to run an Intel...

Intel makes "faster" processors than AMD, however clock speed alone is a very inaccurate representation of performance. AMD chips do more work per clock cycle than most Intel chips, so their overall performance is better even at significantly "slower" clock speeds. A special note on budget chips: Intel's Celeron processor has NO special instruction sets to help it handle media more efficiently, but AMD's Sempron chips do.

Both companies make good products, but if you want REAL performance go with AMD.

ongoing war here, I use AMD for all my personal builds. Peep argue the speed issue when the bottom line is at the end of the day, so what if one pc took 10 microseconds longer to do the same 8 hour task? I use AMD simply because they are cheaper and just as dependable. Never once had a failure in 11 years of using them either.

What are you meaning by run better? For perfomance, as of now, intel outperforms amd, but if youre on a budget, AMD. You can get a lot of the 775 for cheap now, because i7 is out now. AM2 is still going strong.

Intel

INTEL has faster processors. Say the i7 and Phenom 2, the i7 is 10 % faster.

Games - Intel. Intel also runs much colder (especially when comparing 45nm CPUs)

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-cha...