Interesting video, and can we please end the idea that Intel is still the more trustworthy option?
There have been so many scandals with Intel CPU’s for the past 10 years that there is no way they deserve to be deemed as the trustworthy option, when AMD pretty reliably have had much fewer compatibility reliability and security problems, despite being more innovative.
I don’t mean AMD has been better in total among the 3 categories, but better in ALL the categories!!
Yes, that was very weird to read, repeating the same thing twice for the same CPU?
I know it’s not the same process, but I’ve been hearing about silicon degradation for at least 2 decades now, but I’ve never seen evidence that it’s actually a thing.
By the way, I also have an Amiga 500 from late 80’s, that is still working! If silicon degradation was actually a thing, how is that even possible? Obviously they can’t last forever, but for sure they have always been able to last way beyond the point where they become obsolete.
Airports sometimes still use equipment from the 70’s and 80’s too. So I doubt degradation is actually a thing, even though modern processes may not be able to last for 60 years, I maintain that degradation in just a couple of years should be impossible.
Apparently due to silicon degradation.
It’s funny, because I have never experienced that, and I’ve always OCed and over volted my CPU’s. My current CPU is a 7 year old Ryzen R5 1600, that I have been running with both OC and higher voltage too. Every CPU I’ve had for 40 years now, has been replaced because they became obsolete. I’ve worked as an IT consultant for 10+ years in the 90’s and 00’s, and NEVER experienced silicon degradation. All sort of other problems, like faulty soldering when led became illegal, and capacitors when fake poor quality Chinese capacitors found their way into production. There is no way silicon degradation should be an issue within a short time span of a couple of years.
Anyways as it looks now it doesn’t seem like a good idea to buy Intel.
Security including but not limited to:
Spectre:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)
Meltdown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)
Downfall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(security_vulnerability)
These issues stem from several areas of CPU optimizations, Unsafe Branch prediction, multi-threading, and memory optimizations. While some AMD CPU’s were somewhat touched by spectre/meltdown, they could be patched pretty easily, while Intel was hit for several complete generations of CPU’s, and patches caused speed decreases of sometimes 30%.
Stability:
Several issues with overheating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kxlrez5dWo
Unclear guidelines for CPU setup:
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/intel-pressures-all-motherboard-manufacturers-to-implement-default-power-settings-by-the-end-of-may/
This widespread malpractice caused unsafe and power hungry OC to be default on many motherboards.
Compatibility: There were compatibility problems with crashes when Intel introduced e-cores, where the solution was to disable e-cores. Unfortunately this problem is apparently now drowned out by newer problems with Intel CPU’s, so I can’t easily find sources.
In most cases these problems are not total killers, but they often cause the CPU not to perform as advertised. And they do cause occasional crashes, as we could see in the video, way more often with Intel than AMD for the past 2 generations, but there were also problems with 12th gen. and AFAIK with almost every gen since Kaby Lake (Spectre Meltdown).
This is a massive issue seen over time, so I have probably left things that are significant out. I have left out things that go too far back on purpose, because I don’t consider them relevant anymore, everything before Core2 is irrelevant now IMO.