Intel and AMD are giants in CPU manufacturing much like Barcelona and Real Madrid are in Spanish Football, and they have completely different "styles":
- Intel is using monolithic die approach while AMD has changed into multi-chip die approach (albeit recently)
- Barcelona uses passing around the ball until they manage to break through opposite defense, as a team or with an individual brilliance, while Real Madrid uses a more "brute force" and counter-attacks much more often
Both approaches have their own merits and their own drawbacks:
- Intel's generally have better latency and single thread performance but have problems with scaling to high core counts while AMD have high core counts but have latency and single thread issues
- Barcelona ability to circulate the ball enables them to frustrate the opposite side into making mistakes and those end up costing the opponents dearly while Real Madrid scores many goals (until recently, LOL) but has issues with defense because of the way they attack and that enables opponents to score goals which sometimes leads ties or even losses.
CPU manufacturing has reached a point where they either change the materials the chips are made of and are finally able to have big leaps in speed or find ways to have more cores. AMD has already gone the more cores route while Intel hasn't, for now.
As
@R0H1T has said, unless whatever being run makes heavy use of AVX, doesn't scale well with cores or is heavily taxing on a single thread, then this 2970WX totally beats Intel's current offerings.
