Who is ahead? Which company is better is a dispute like ps4 with xbox?
Intel has meanwhile lost the connection and is fighting with all means to somehow save its reputation in the industry.
However, in the past the company simply slept through many developments, so that AMD and now the Apple M1 chips are putting Intel under a lot of pressure.
Of course, it's still a matter of personal preference as there are always people who think a brand is better.
Are the only two competitors in the processor market. Intel still has the larger market share with 60 or 70%, but with the new Ryzen series AMD is wiping the floor with Intel
In the past, Intel was by far the number 1 only with the Ryzen processors got the really big competition. If the current hardware situation weren't so bad, AMD would have been ahead of the game with Zen 3, especially since you don't have to buy a new motherboard with every new generation. But currently you just have to look what you can get for a reasonable price. While AMD is relying on ever better manufacturing processes (7nm), Intel is still sitting at 14nm as well as in recent years.
AMD's CPUs are currently more powerful and significantly more efficient, but also more expensive.
In the low-budget area, for example, an i5-10400F costs 130 euro, a similarly good Ryzen 5 3600 costs 185 euro.
Another example:
A Ryzen 5 5600X (6-core) costs 350 euro, but you get an i9-10900F (10-core) or an i9-10850K for 35 euro more.
In the HEDT area, on the other hand, AMD is significantly cheaper.
However, if prices normalize, AMD will continue to have the better price / performance ratio.
Without the competition, Intel would never have charged such low prices.
Yes, the two are big competitors, but they also depend on each other. If only one of them were left, he would be a monopoly and threatened by American law to be smashed. (Similar to how Facebook was threatened) Although this was only told by a professor, I'm not familiar with it.
The fact is, however, that at different times the one and the other are ahead. They have an agreement to use certain patents mutually, whereby there's a common instruction set for processors of both companies. That plays into the hands of both of them because software then only has to be compiled once.
The products of both companies are good, AMD has been scoring for many years in the price-performance ratio and for some time with a more modern manufacturing process and good architecture (Ryzen).
Have you always been a competitor? Or only since Ryzen
For about 25 years (development of its own processor), long before Ryzen.
Intel was always ahead until Ryzen came along?
Competition doesn't just mean that someone else is just as good, but that someone else is already producing something that can be used as a replacement for their own product.
AMD introduced the 64-bit architecture about 15 years ago and connected with it the AMD64 instruction set, which Intel now also uses. I think that speaks for itself.
