Having spent the closing months of 1999 at each other's throats in both price and performance, you might have thought early 2000 would bring a pause in the iridescent conflict between the two chip giants. No such luck. AMD and Intel have been constantly trying to out do each other in the CPU stakes, one day Intels ahead and the next AMD are. AMD holds on by keeping prices suppressed and churning chips out faster, while Intel advance their current chipsets and refine their technologies while keeping prices steady.

Thankfully this is all rather useful for you and I, the consumers, because we get all the benefits as the giants rage war above. Just like two children fighting to get hold of a sack of sweets over an Ant hill, then suddenly the sack breaks and the sweets come tumbling down and into the open arms of the ants below. Yet perhaps in among this surge of technology spouting we have forgotten just what the true differences between Intel and AMD are.

It's all the same to me

Despite the casual consumer now having more technology at lower prices on offer to them, we are still just as confused as we were before as to which is better. So Speedy 3D decided to take a far less technical look at the differences between AMD and Intel, avoiding the technical jargon and hitting strait at the core concerns. What are the core concerns? Simply, Speed, Cost, Stability, Compatibility and Choices/Options.

We took a look at what both AMD and Intel had on offer and sighted all of the above as important aspects in our investigation to find out just who has the best bit of everything.

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