AMD Not Competing with Intel Anymore, Goes Mobile

[Mungri]

I feel it safe to say (after owning both AMD and Intel platforms) There has never really been much of a "competition"... If youre building a PC and trying to keep costs down... you go AMD, if you are building a PC and want performance... You get an Intel Chip. This is just my opinion

This is only currently true while AMD CPUs are behind Intel.

Back when AMD were thrashing Intel in the S939 days, an Athlon X2 4400+ cost around £350, and the 4800+ around £400+.

The problem with AMD at this point was that they relied on the Athlon architecture for too long, and by the time, and ever since Intel released the C2D and its successive chips, AMD were unable to compete, and constantly failed at trying to catch up, hence they then had to undercut Intel's CPU prices to remain competitive.

If the current performance of AMD and Intel CPUs were reversed, CPU prices wouldnt any different, it would just be AMD CPU's at Intel's current price points and vice versa.

I definitely remember paying £325 for my Athlon X2 4400+ after months on end of searching for a sub £350 price. At least now with Intel, you can get top performance and architectures at the £150-200 price point simply on slower base clocks which matters little when overclocking.