In the past 2017 is indeed an extraordinary year, AMD announced at the beginning of the Ryzen Rui Long processor set off no small waves, all of a sudden the mainstream desktop processor into the 6/8 nuclear era, the relative, Intel's high-end Core i7 also brought a national six core, Rui Long finally grabbed the confidence of Intel's market share.
2017 DIY installed election Intel platform, or choose AMD platform is good? The author below to introduce.First, let's review AMD and Intel released this year, the new situation.
Eight generations of core market
May 31, 2017 Intel Unveils New Generation of High-End Processors with Up to 18 Processing Cores Compared to Products Intel is looking to compete with AMD with new products that strengthen its edge in the high-end PC processor market. It is also a market competition under a choice.
Intel some new parameters
The same year the United States on August 21, Intel also officially announced the eighth generation of the Core Duo processor (Coffee Lake), which from the seventh generation Core Duo processor release just eight months after the time is short, high quality, we are loved by of.
Intel eight generations of new core parameters
In the eighth generation Core Duo processor is still using 14nm process, but the number of processor cores has greatly improved. I3 system 4 core 4 threads, i5 6 cores 6 threads, i7 upgrade to 6 core 12 threads.
AMD recent new review
AMD in the United States on February 21, 2017 officially released Rui Long AMD Ryzen 7, and therefore officially returned to the high-end CPU market.
Rui Long Ryzen 7 based on the latest Zen architecture, which uses 14nm FinFET technology, and uses the 8-core 16-thread specifications, the run points closely following the Intel i7 6900K.
At 10:00 a.m. March 16, AMD announced the new AMD Ryzen 5 series processors.
On July 27 of the same year, AMD Ryzen3 also formally welcomed its third member. Its customer base started with the Ryzen 3 series, targeted mainly at mainstream and entry-level users, starting with two model 1300X, 1200 models.
AMD part of the new parameters
In the same year, Los Angeles time on July 30, AMD announced the latest flagship desktop AMD Ryzen Threadripper, once again and rival Intel's Core-X in the high fever platform started a new round of positive collision.
At this point, AMD processor layout completed. Have to say AMD released this year's 'Rui Long' processor, it can be said hit a good counterattack, the price is relatively high, so that consumers in the installed one more good s Choice.
AMD / INTEL motherboard difference
In terms of the motherboard layout, AMD and Intel are also very similar.For AMD, the X370 motherboard is the AM4 high-end models, features more complete, such as PCI-E 3.0, USB 3.1, M.2, DDR4, SLI crossfire and other readily available. In addition to the B350 does not support the graphics crossfire other functions are the same, the price is very high.
The A320 is the entry board for the AM4, does not support overclocking, reduces the number of USB and PCI-E channels, but still retains the M.2 interface, suitable for entry-level players.
X399 motherboards that fit into the tearing of processors are even tougher and the X399 chipset makes the AMD platform the first time it supports quad-channel memory.
In addition, X399 motherboard M.2 interface features have been upgraded.XMeter platform on the NVMe RAID support array boot function, including RAID 0/1/10 three modes, and can add up to 10 hard drives to the array.
Relative to AMD's breakthrough, Intel here is more embarrassing, though, 300 series motherboard pins and 200 series motherboard exactly the same, but not compatible with each other, but now only the Z370 system motherboard, that is, no matter You buy i3, i5, i7 can only choose Z370 series motherboards.
Intel once again leading AMD in memory, Core i5 and Core i7 can support the default frequency of 2666MHz, but the performance increase is limited.
The total number of PCIe lanes that can be provided is the same, or 24, that is, the ability to expand, Z370 and Z270 is exactly the same.
High-end CPU, the motherboard with the i9 series is the X299 series motherboards, the largest number of cpu pcie direct 44, less than 64 X399.
Although the motherboard seems pch pcie X299 more than 24 3.0 However, this pcie in general, the delay is longer than the cpu, and not to support all pcie devices.
Finally need to mention that the Intel platform supports proud Teng memory, AMD motherboard does not support this feature.
Both cost-effective analysis
Then analyze the price of the two.First of all, from the price analysis, which is most of our friends are concerned, AMD is indeed a very advantageous here. Threads who tear the price of 549-999 US dollars (about 3658- 6656), while Intel's Core i9 is more expensive, starting price reached 999 US dollars (about 6613 yuan).
AMD thread tearing quotes
Intel has the advantage of offering more of the available options on the i9, with 18 of the highest-end processing cores and up to 16 Threadrippers.
In terms of the key processor frequency, AMD thread tearing also provides a higher basic frequency, but not to the Core i9 under high load frequency.
Intel part of the product offer
Consumer-grade products, AMD Ryzen 1800X priced at 3599 yuan, the purchase with the X370 motherboard package is about 4500 yuan, Intel i7 8700K priced at 3999 yuan, the purchase with the Z370 motherboard package is about 7500 yuan.Although the i7 8700K only 6 Core, but in the actual test, i7 8700K multi-core computing power can be flat-8 core 1800X, while in the single-core, needless to say must be the i7 8700K victory.
In summary, although the Intel performance is stronger, but to spend more money is relatively more, in the price of a, AMD is still more advantage, so if you are not lack of money, like high-quality players, choose Intel.
Nuclear users should pay attention
When we buy the processor do not forget to check the nuclear factor.Modern society rhythm accelerated, many users use the computer is nothing more than to see the movie, processing documents, browsing the web etc. These operations on the graphics performance is not high, no Separate configuration of discrete graphics.
However, a large part of AMD's chips are not equipped with nuclear display, including Ryzen7 1700X and Ryzen5 1600X, need to be equipped with a separate graphics card, only the 2018 APU latest release without the use of graphics cards.
APU
Mentioned above AMD cost-effective treatment, but the market feedback from the AMD processor market share is pitiful because of the inertia of the consumer thinking is caused, Ryzen series of processors was only early this year Published.
In the past, Intel's chip manufacturing process, power consumption, performance, stability than the same grade AMD chip is good.An AMD processor advent of only one year there is no rapid change, because the mass market for AMD's processor awareness No change.
Finally, the conclusion came, like stable and do not use the video card users, you can consider using the Intel platform; and more understanding of the DIY hardware students, you can choose a more cost-effective AMD processors.On the high-end processors, the thread is clearly more tearing Attractive, strong and weak games are not easy to say, different between the two games vary widely.
