Important questions about AMD processors?

Question

I had very long time ago about 5 years an AMD processor and i wasnt happy with it at all but i have started to hear good reviews about the new AMD processors so I wanted to know:

1.Is it true that AMD has been releasing high performance processors these days?

2.Whats new in the AMD processors? ( Any direct links will be highly appreciated )

Answer 1

Actually the latest reviews indicate that AMD processors are significantly trailing behind Intel in performance (PC World magazine).

Answer 2

AMD processors are really slow and had many issues with me such as:

sometimes you do not know why has the computer frozen? no answer

sometimes you have no control on keyboard niether mouse

shutting down with no warning

some other times you are no longer the one whos controlling the pc but you are an audience....and many other issues  such as not recognising new RAM s if u add them the recovery will be tricky

sound cards will stop functioning for some days for no reason then will come back with no reason as well

a bit better is celeron  but the best is Intel which you will have a stable system .

AMD 64 (the new ones) are far better than old AMD processors and they have solved many issues but still Intel are the best

Answer 3

The most recent generation, the quad-core designs, have had issues.  Ever since the Athlon XP came out, though, AMD had performance gains just ahead of Intel.

The reasoning behind their nomenclature(Athlon XP 3200+ for example) is that even though the processor runs at only 2.9 ghz, it has performance equal to that of a 3.2ghz Intel chip.  They also run at lower temperatures, and use less power.

The same was true with the 64 bit Athlon, as well as the Dual-Core.  Once they started making Quad-Cores, though, they have been having issues that they are just recovering from.

If you are interested in a Quad-Core, keep in mind that the Intel Quad-Core only has two channels, which keeps the four core theory at a bottleneck since it can only communicate with two cores at once, whereas AMD's has four channels.