Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Advantages of the AMD 8 Core processor

In the last post I wrote that AMD is no match for Intel in terms of brute force and single core processing.  That's still true. I have one AMD FX 8320 and after a year of intense use I learned how to make the most of it and I actually like it and now I think it beats the Intel processor in terms of price to performance ratio but also on brute force.

Since AMD costs a lot less per benchmark point, you can easily buy the best AMD processor without burning the wallet. That's the first advantage. The second is since now most of our tasks are multi tasks, I think that for the same dollars, you can get an AMD processor with more power than Intel and let it run all the tasks at the same time, without impact the work you have at hand at the moment. Let's say you are a Youtube video producer. Lots of videos to edit, encode and decode. That would be a problem for Intel because each core works faster but after more than three simultaneously tasks, each new video to be enconded at the same time will take a lot longer. That's no problem for AMD 8 core (or 6 core). You can put 7 videos to encode at the same time (make sure you have the RAM for it) and then just check when they are done. You can use the remaining core for every day work (email, facebook, whatever) and not experience any performance impact.

Well, took a long time to see that AMD is better for most people I think. Intel is no match for AMD in terms of price to performance ratio meaning you can always have the best cpu performance money can buy and at the same time invest the extra you would pay for Intel in for RAM and a bigger SSD hard disk. Don't forget! You should have SSD to take full advantage of the AMD 8 core. Mechanical hard drives do have good read and write speeds but only during the transfer. Most files (especially during multi tasking) come from different places inside the hard disk. Without SSD, the disk has to move the head to one place, then another and then again, before getting all the files to the CPU. SSD have just 1 ms of delay in checking for the files. The mechanical hard drives have dozens of ms.

That's it for now. I hope you enjoy your brand new and faster processor. Remember to upgrade it regularly to keep your machine state of the art :)

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