AMD close to surpass Intel in rig stats

[Slaimus]

http://www.anandtech.com/systemrig_stats.html

 

[Grendel99]

Wow cool Wasn't Intel WAY ahead a while ago?

 

[toft-dk]

I would say that Intel has serious problems, Not many people would buy their
product when they change their platforms all the time.

AMD RULES

 

[RobsTV]

I agree. Changing platforms is what is killing them, and allowing AMD to move ahead. Look way back at Socket 7. Intel tried to kill it at 233MHz, but AMD has kept it alive up to 600MHz. The Socket 7 switch is probably the #1 reason why many went to AMD in the begining. This allowed AMD to build a huge loyal base of customers, and when they upgrade from the K6 series, of course they will stick with AMD and go with Athlon. Price, performance, and customer satisfaction all put AMD well ahead of Intel now. Only thing keeping Intel around is there long term name recognition which sells itself.

 

[SpideyCU]

On the flip-side, the only thing keeping the Athlon back with do-it-yourself-ers is the problems surrounding VIA's chipsets (price and performance keep pulling it up). But hey, I think odds will tilt a bit more when that nForce hits the streets. Let's just hope it doesn't have any issues of its own...but that remains to be seen.

All in the name of a more varied environment and more competition I say. I'm just trying to think, honestly, what Intel would be charging us for processors if AMD chips had gone the way of Cyrix...

 

[Boonesmi]

ahhh i forget about updating my system rig page thanks for this reminder (thread)

 

[heffe734]

AMD's on the up and up and i'm not surprised at all. You get a whole lot of performence for the buck and i haven't had any problems yet. They fixed most of those dreaded issues with the via chipsets and i'm running my AMD's fine without any problems.

 

[Jittles]

I just added my celeron 400@500... one more for Intel.

too bad in a couple days the tbird I ordered will be here and I will scrap this one and enter that one!

 

[opie]

Wasn't Intel WAY ahead a while ago?


Somebody posted about this not too long ago. Here's the old stats:





Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:21 PM



I found the numbers interesting.... I was surprised not to see more AMD users actually. And look at all the NVIDIA users..

CPU Stats

AMD: 1856
Intel: 2330
VIA/Cyrix: 1
IDT: 6

Video Card Stats

3Dfx: 168
ATI: 535
Nvidia: 1097


Motherboard Stats

ABIT: 99
AOPEN: 63
ASUS: 1101
MSI: 1228
Tyan: 350

Memory Stats

Corsair: 75
Crucial: 758
Generic: 634
Micron: 486
Mushkin: 394


Hard Drive Stats

IBM: 1248
Fujitsu: 73
Maxtor: 1107
Quantum: 424
Seagate: 287
Western Digital: 644

Storage Stats

IDE: 4038
SCSI: 776


Internet Stats

Cable: 1681
xDSL: 979
ISDN: 88
Dial Up: 1052
Wireless: 46
T1: 186
T3: 126
OC3+: 73
Other: 182

OS Stats

Windows Variants: 3371
Unix Variants: 393
Mac: 11

 

[Wingznut]

"Not many people would buy their product when they change their platforms all the time."

Just to clear the air... Socket 423 will be more than a year old when replaced. PPGA, almost two years. FCPGA, almost two years. Slot 1, two years.

If you want to compare AMD... Slot A lasted about a year, and Socket A is just over a year old.

So, there's really not much difference between the two. And sure you can say that AMD is going to continue with Socket A. But is it even possible to use a Athlon-1.4ghz with a motherboard purchased 12 months ago? And even if it is, who would even consider it? I don't see that pattern being any different in another 12 months, even if AMD does stay with Socket A compatibility.

 

[RobsTV]

While VIA problems are in the headlines, Intel is having a hard time with chipsets as well, yet no one says, "crappy Intel chipset". Both have equally important compatabilty issues and problems, just with different portions. A couple examples are: Intel LX AGP slot motherboards not being able to handle modern video cards. Intel TX chipset needing a patch to work with Windows. Intels inability to use the newer High Density memory chips currently available at next to nothing. Intels problem with a recent chipset (810 I think, but probably wrong), that forced the Intel engineers to recommend that Intel use VIA chipset motherboard for it's servers. Then there are all the Intel CPU bugs that have appeared over time.

Platform changes do continue, and sometimes mistakes are made (AMD Slot A), but a good company realizes errors, and will try to correct them. Try to use a HSF from Intels lastest platform on an older Socket 7 motherboard. Can't do it. But with the latest AMD platform, Socket A, that same HSF easily works on an old Socket 7 motherboard. While not identical, AMD went back to a similiar socket based platform that works.