WEBVTT - TechStuff Tidbits: What's the difference between Intel and AMD CPUs? 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:12.239 Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there, 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.520 and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.239 I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:21.599 are you? So? In an episode last week, I talked 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.079 about CPU architecture and I mentioned that there are two 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:29.880 primary chip design companies responsible for most of the CPUs 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.360 on the market, and by that I mean specifically processors 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.839 for desktop and laptop computers. Now that being said, there 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.920 are some smaller chip design companies that are in that 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.880 space as well, but the two big players are Intel 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.040 and AMD. So I thought I would do a quick 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.919 episode about the differences between these two companies and their products, 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.559 because if you're ever building your own PC, then one 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.720 of the decisions you need to make is do I 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.400 go AMD or do I go Intel? And just a 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.160 reminder that means that you know, this decision really does 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:08.440 matter because motherboards, you know, the giant circuit boards that 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.640 you plug processors into, they're only compatible with one of 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.600 the two, like they're either Intel compatible or AMD compatible. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.520 And even then you also have to look for compatibility 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.720 within certain families of processors. But you can't buy an 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:29.200 Intel based motherboard and insert an AMD CPU and vice versa, 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.840 and we'll talk about why as this episode unfolds. So interestingly, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.280 the companies are kind of siblings, that is, they both 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.920 have the same daddy daddy fair Child Semiconductor. And yes, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.360 if you're wondering if I wrote this episode right after 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.520 my weird episode about logic gates earlier this week, I did. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.760 And I was still groggy and loopy still am as 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:57.320 I record this, And that's just how things are. So anyway, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.360 fair Child semi Conductor was kind of the dad to 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.360 both AMD and Intel, and I guess that makes William 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.640 Shockley the grandfather for both of these companies as well. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.840 Shockley was a co founder of the transistor at Bell Labs, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.280 and in nineteen fifty five he founded the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.799 and he recruited lots of super smart engineering students and engineers, 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.040 and he was also notoriously awful to work for, if 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:27.240 reports are to be believed, so that led to an 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.480 interesting situation. In nineteen fifty seven, eight of the employees 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:36.240 of Shockley Semiconductor resigned altogether, and it was these eight 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.440 that would then co found Fairchild Semiconductor. This was a 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:44.040 branch of a larger camera company that already existed, the 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.399 Fairchild Camera Company, And this company had been looking into 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.880 getting involved in the semiconductor biz, but they didn't have 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.720 the know how or the starting capital to just jump 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:58.200 right in. So these guys ended up coming over and 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.320 created that division for Fairchild and work there. These eight 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.000 men became known as the Traitoress eight. Though, considering the 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.760 types of stuff that Shockley was interested in later in 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.160 his life, perhaps the word trader should be changed to 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.840 eight guys who saw what was coming and got while 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.680 the getting was good. Among those eight were two men 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.920 who wo had later co found Intel. They were Gordon 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.440 Moore and Robert Noise. But between Shockley semi Conductors and Intel, 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.160 you still have Fairchild semi Conductor, right, So they're all 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.320 working at Fairchild. And in nineteen sixty one a guy 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:37.280 named Jeremiah Jerry Sanders would join Fairchild semi Conductor as 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.320 an engineer. He would later go on to co found AMD. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.080 So anyway, before that, at Fairchild semi Conductor, things are 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.000 plugging away till you hit nineteen sixty eight. That's when 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.480 Robert Nois and Gordon Moore resigned from Fairchild and they 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.400 go to co found Intel. Sanders would then leave Fairchild 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.840 along with seven others, So I guess another Traders say, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.320 if you want to think of it that way, in 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.880 nineteen six and they co founded Advanced micro Devices Incorporated 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.920 or AMD. Early on, Intel focused on designing memory chips, 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.600 not CPUs, which shouldn't be a surprise because the CPU 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.480 hadn't been invented yet. We did not get the first 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:20.640 CPU until nineteen seventy one, and remember Intel traces its 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.720 history to nineteen sixty eight. The CPU actually came out 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:29.000 of Intel. It was the Intel for zero zero four. Interestingly, 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.160 this was a side project at Intel, because Intel's main 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:37.560 business were these memory chips. But as a side project, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:42.239 some engineers were able to build an integrated circuit chip 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.960 that had all the functions that we associate with CPUs, 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.800 and so before that, all the different functions of a 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.279 CPU would have to span across different components on a 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.320 circuit board. Now you could have them all in the 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.360 same chip, and that was huge, although also paradoxically very 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.080 tiny because chips are not big anyway. It would take 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.880 a couple of years for microprocessors to really take off, 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:12.240 but they sure as heck did. AMD likewise designed and 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.120 fabricated memory chips, and once Intel got going with CPUs 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.560 and other companies started to follow suit, AMD got a 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.839 lot of business as a second source manufacturer. So a 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.000 second source manufacturer is a company that secures a license 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:31.280 to manufacture some other companies designed product. So Nvidia does 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.960 this model a lot and outsources manufacturing of its chips, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:40.039 and that makes sense because to manufacture chips that requires 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:44.279 a huge initial cost to build out the fabrication facilities, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.279 so companies like Nvidia license that out to other companies. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:53.440 AMD would produce chips designed by other companies, including Intel, 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.960 but the cooperative relationship between AMD and Intel was not 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:02.200 to last. The second source manufacturing agreement expired in nineteen 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:07.520 eighty six. There was an agreement to share technologies that 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.640 was a little more lenient and lasted a bit longer, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.200 but Intel an AMD would kind of go their own way, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.320 well kind of, because AMD started to reverse engineer Intel 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:25.080 chips and then make their own Intel compatible chips, so 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.240 they weren't licensed by Intel anymore. But they figured out 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.039 how Intel's processors were designed and then were able to 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:36.120 replicate that in their own facilities. Now, Intel created what 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.880 would become known as the X eighty six chip architecture. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.520 The first processor in this family was the eighty eighty six, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.760 which Intel produced in nineteen seventy eight. This was a 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:51.120 sixteen BET microprocessor. I just did an episode trying to 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.400 explain what that means when you talk about a system 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.400 being like sixteen BET versus thirty two BET, et cetera. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.919 And we did talk about chip architecture last week. So 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.640 essentially that just involves the layout of the various components 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.000 in a CPU, and that layout is partly what determines 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.280 the chip's performance. Uh, you know, how much data it 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.800 can process in a given amount of time, how much 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.720 power is required to run the chip, and how much 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.240 heat the chip generates as it chugs along. All of 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:23.560 that depend at least partly on the chip's architecture. The 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.560 X eighty six architecture proved to be a very strong 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.520 foundation for Intel. If you've been around for a while, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.760 you might remember IBM compatible computers back when we used 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.320 to call you know, PC's IBM compatibles because they were 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.840 based off IBM's initial PC design. But you might remember 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.080 processors like the two eighty six or the three eighty 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:49.240 six or the four eighty six. I believe when I 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:50.800 was growing up, we had a two eighty six and 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.000 then jumped up to a for eighty six, not immediately, 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.080 like we let that two eighty six last a good 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.520 long while before we upgraded. But yeah, I remember using 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.400 those computers. So the X in X eighty six is 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.640 kind of like a variable in algebra, represents a family 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.120 of processors that all draw from the same basic chip 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:16.200 architecture design. AMD reverse engineered the x eighty six architecture 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.080 and began to produce its own chips that were similar 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.840 to Intel's thirty two bit three eighty six processor, extremely similar, 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.440 in fact, similar enough that Intel and AMD got into 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.120 some legal scraps over this. The matter ultimately went all 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.040 the way up to the US Supreme Court, and in 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.840 nineteen ninety four, the Supreme Court would weigh in. But yeah, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:43.360 before that, the legal decisions were flip flopping. Some of 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.400 the courts were finding in favor of Intel, some in 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.240 favor of AMD that got reversed by an appeals court. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.800 Eventually gets up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.640 Court votes in favor of AMD. Also, that wasn't the 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.160 last time the two companies would clash in the Supreme Court, 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.280 but that for a full episode focusing just on AMD. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.319 I guess now, for a long time, Intel's chips had 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.240 a performance edge over AMD, so AMD was really focused 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.120 on making chips that were more efficient, so they were 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.800 less power hungry. They were also more affordable, not just 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.640 in the price tag on the chip, but also because 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.320 they were sipping less power, you didn't have to spin 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.640 as much on electricity bills. And both Intel and AMD 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.920 were relying on this X eighty six architecture. However, in 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.240 nineteen ninety nine, AMD did something really shocking. They introduced 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.920 the first X eighty six processor with a one gigahertz 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.439 clock speed. Now I've been over clock speed a couple 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.920 times recently, but just as a reminder, the speed references 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.840 the number of times the quote unquote clock of the 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:51.560 CPU oscillates per second. So a gigahertz processor has a 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:56.080 clock that oscillates one billion times every second. And AMD 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.360 was the first company to get there. And you could 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.000 think of oscillations as being sort of the span of 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.560 time that a computer has to complete a step in 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:10.479 an operation. While AMD was only a year younger than Intel, 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.920 It was this move in nineteen ninety nine that really 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:17.199 signaled that AMD was a worthy competitor to the industry giant. 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.000 You know, it had been kind of trailing behind and 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.360 writing Intel's coattails, if you want to look at it 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.920 that way. But ninety nine showed that AMD was here 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:30.280 for real z's it meant business. Internally, AMD called this 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.160 microprocessor the K seven because it was the seventh generation 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.000 X eighty six based CPU that AMD had produced, but 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:42.359 the brand name for the CPU was the Athlon processor, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.000 and the Athlon would end up marking a divided path 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.760 for AMD and Intel. I'll explain how after we come 0:10:50.800 --> 0:11:02.720 back from this quick break. All right, we were talking 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:07.280 about a divided path between AMD and Intel. So Intel 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.520 processors had an electrical as well as physical orientation for 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.640 plugging into a motherboard, and at the time of the 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:20.880 Athlon processor from AMD, Intel's specifications were called slot one. 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.720 AMD no longer had the right to license Slot one technology, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.480 so that meant AMD had to choose a different specification 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.160 for its chip to plug into a motherboard. This specification 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.040 would be called slot A. So very confusing, right slot 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.960 one versus Slot A. You get the feeling that both 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.320 companies were going for this so that no one had 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.680 to be number two or B. So anyway, you had 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.520 slot one for Intel and Slot A for AMD, and 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.440 the word slot is starting to lose all meaning for me. Mechanically, 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.560 an AMD processor could fit into a motherboard that was 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.320 made for Intel processors, and this was good from motherboard 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.280 manufacturers reduced the hardship they would have to make motherboards 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.559 that were compatible with each chip because the mechanical parts 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.920 of the board could remain the same. However, electronically the 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.720 two slots were incompatible, so the contacts on the chip 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.600 in Slot one chips were different from those that were 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.120 in Slot A, so you could not put a slot 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:25.600 A style chip in a slot one style motherboard. That 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.119 would not work. And this would hold true over successive 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:34.640 generations of Intel and AMD chips. The chips would evolve, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.640 as did the types of connections on motherboards. They got 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.360 away from slots and into sockets. But anyway, the whole 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.120 thing got started at this stage where the Athlon processor 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.800 kind of went off on this next step because previously 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.960 you could put an AMD chip in an Intel motherboard 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:57.960 because the AMD had been making Intel style chips. They 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.880 were a second source manufacturer. But this time was now over. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.920 Both companies would evolve their technologies and the fork in 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.360 the road would get wider over time. Generally speaking, there 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.560 were some basic pros and cons that you could associate 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.040 with the chips that the companies made over different eras 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:22.600 of their existence. So initially, Intel chips were more powerful 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.280 and had higher clock speeds than what you would find 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.000 with AMD chips, and then early on AMD chips were 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.200 usually a little less expensive than Intel chips, and they 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.000 were more power efficient, so they were also gentler on 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.520 battery life, which was important for things like laptop computers, 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.040 rather than Intel's processors, which, because they were more powerful, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.840 required more actual power and would drain batteries more quickly. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.719 Over time, these things have kind of flip flopped a 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.960 little bit. One company would end up focusing on power 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.280 for a bit, the other one would start to optimize 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.559 architecture and boost efficiency, and then the roles would reverse. 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.520 So you can't just make a blanket statement of saying 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:08.040 Intel processors are faster than AMD. It's more complicated than that. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.240 In addition, Intel's domination for a very long time was 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.760 in single thread processing, so that's the kind of processing 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.240 that a really powerful single core processor is made to handle, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.360 and AMD was focusing for a long time on multicore 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:27.280 and thus multi threading processing, and for specific types of 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:32.080 computer processing, AMD could outperform Intel, but in other types 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.120 of processing, Intel beat out AMD. And again, these relationships 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.960 have also flip flopped over the years. Honestly, as both 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.200 companies pushed innovation, the capabilities of their products began to converge. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:49.120 So they are different chips with different architectures, and they 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:54.880 require different types of motherboards to connect to, but performance 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.280 wise they're kind of narrowed in on each other. There's 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.640 not that huge of a different between Intel and AMD 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:06.360 depending upon which line of processors you're looking at. If 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.920 you're looking at the very top of the line processors, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.800 then Intel has edged out AMD over the number of 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.960 cores available, but then AMD holds the edge on more 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:20.360 powerful individual cores. So Intel the Intel Core I nine 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.400 thirteen nine hundred K, that processor, which is as a 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.080 heck of a mouthful, has twenty four cores and has 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.600 support of up to thirty two threads and multi threading. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.440 AMD's Rizin seventy nine point fifty X has quote unquote 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.120 only sixteen cores compared to Intel's twenty four with the 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.240 I nine thirteen nine hundred K. But AMD's sixteen cores 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.800 can also handle thirty two threads of processing just like 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:53.880 Intel's can, and AMD's chip runs at a higher clock 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:59.440 frequency and greater cash memory than Intel's. So again, depending 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:04.200 upon what your purpose you're using the chips for and 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.560 what deals are available, that might really guide your decision 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.400 more than anything else. So it's possible that the choice 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.200 between Intel and AMD could really come down to your 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:19.120 budget and the availability of specific processors and motherboards. So remember, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.400 choosing the processor determines what types of motherboards you can use, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.480 and if you go with an AMD chip, then you're 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.320 going to need to make sure you get a motherboard 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:34.040 that's compatible with AMD CPUs. It also will tell you 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.320 things like what you need to think about when you're 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.880 looking at things like like power supplies. Obviously, this chip 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.720 is not going to be the only component you're plugging 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.680 into your computer. You're going to have lots of other stuff, 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.160 including possibly a really powerful graphics processing unit if you're, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.320 like you know, an elite gamer type, and that in 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.240 turn will also determine the type of power supply you're 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.160 going to need. In order to run your machine. So, yeah, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.480 the difference is between a MD and Intel from a 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:06.159 performance standpoint really are hard to distinguish at this stage, 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:10.840 especially when you're looking at, you know, specific price points 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:18.240 and processor capabilities, because they're they're getting really similar in output, 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.840 and it really comes down to things like your budget 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.720 and the types of software you're planning on running on 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.439 that machine. But that's really it. It's like it's not 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.320 as it's not as cut and dry as it used 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.800 to be, where you would say, oh, if you're doing 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.639 a lot of stuff that's going to require a multi 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.879 core processing, go with a m D. And if you 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:39.919 want something that's really good for single thread and go 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.240 with Intel. That's no longer necessarily the case. So it's 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.080 a lot more complicated and nuanced than it used to be. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.840 Although if you're just looking at how much does it cost, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:56.879 that can simplify things dramatically. All Right, that's it for 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.880 this quick episode about the differences between TELL at AMD 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.200 from a CPU standpoint. There are obviously lots of other 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.119 differences between the two companies, but I just wanted to 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.159 focus on CPUs because that's kind of what we've been 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.400 talking about for the last couple of weeks. I hope 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.160 you are all well. Tomorrow we are going to have 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.160 a classic episode of tech Stuff, a really classic one. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:20.639 This one dates all the way back to two thousand 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.840 and nine, so I hope you enjoy that, and I'll 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:33.440 talk to you again really soon. Tech Stuff is an 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:39.000 iHeartRadio production. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:45.840 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.