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Comparing Processors Paper Assignment
Donnell Wilson
Liberty University
CSIS320: IS Hardware and Software
Professor Peterson
July 7, 2025
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Comparing Processors Paper Assignment
Abstract
This paper compares Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel processors within a business
computing environment from performance, power efficiency, costs, compatibility, and security
perspectives. Based on peer-reviewed articles and trusted industry analysis in 2020 and the
fiveyear prospects in 2025, the study mentions that AMD has a greater advantage in absolute
multicore value and energy efficiency. Intel has the upper hand in single-core performance and
open ecosystem security. The recommendations include direction in making corporate decisions
based on the type of workload, IT infrastructure, and the overall cost of ownership.
Keywords: Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, business computing, performance, power efficiency,
processor comparison
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Introduction
The hardware used in conducting computing activities in any business setting is the
central processing unit (CPU). Whether a small office or a large data center, the central
processing unit is critical in selecting the computing systems' speed, efficiency, and
performance. The choice of which processor would be more of a strategic issue rather than a
technical one, as businesses contend with digital productivity, communication, analytics, and
decision-making. Performance of a processor not only influences the computing speed but also
has long-term ramifications for the scalability, system dependability, and cost of ownership.
Two companies, Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices, are dominant players in
the market of x86-64 processors. Their rivalry has improved processor design, architecture, and
capabilities within the last 10 years. Intel and AMD companies manufacture the processors that
are used in regular desktop computers, as well as in server machines and artificial intelligence
(AI) workstations (Lim et al., 2024; UltaHost, 2024). They both differ in their central design
philosophies, approach to pricing, efficiency on power consumption, compatibility with
enterprise ecosystem, and provisions on virtualization and security protocols.
In modern business computing, the choice between Intel and AMD is critical. It includes
an analysis of performance benchmarks, thermal and power efficiency, hardware lifecycle, and
platform stability and support ecosystems. Intel's history boosts its reputation for stability,
single-thread processing, and enterprise cross-support. In contrast, AMD prides itself on having
more cores, being energy-efficient, and presenting a good price-performance ratio, particularly
in multi-threaded applications.
This paper compares both Intel and AMD processors regarding their strengths and
weaknesses in the corporate world. This analysis will cover major aspects, including
computational power, prices, thermal efficiency, security component, and compatibility with
today's business applications. This paper will present recommendations that can be considered
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depending on different business requirements and scenarios of use to assist organizations in
making effective decisions related to hardware investments.
Performance
Intel has traditionally had about a 3–4-year advantage in the single-thread performance
department and has been the processor of choice in business computations that depended on
high clock rates with little threading. Running simple programs like spreadsheet calculations,
basic office productivity software, and older legacy systems usually perform better when many
cores rather than a few cores of the single core performance of a processor are being used. Intel
has been interested in focusing on clock speed and instruction-per-cycle (IPC) efficiency as part
of its architecture, providing a consistent advantage in these markets (UltaHost, 2024).
AMD has made incredible progress within the last few years, especially with its Ryzen
and EPYC central processing unit families. Based on the state of the art of the 4nm finFET
production process of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, AMD chips are now
selling highly competitive power efficiency and a high-count core performance. This
improvement is beneficial to the business workloads, which utilize parallel computing, including
virtualization, software development, big data processing, and real-time rendering. The
architecture of AMD is superior at working in multi-threaded conditions when the jobs are
assigned to various cores, resulting in enhanced scalability and resource consumption (Lim et
al., 2024; Toms Hardware, 2025).
As n example, when pitting the Ansys Mechanical simulation software, a tool used quite
extensively in engineering and industrial design, against each other during benchmarking tests,
the results revealed that the processors in the Genoa series of AMD significantly outran those in
Sapphire Rapids by Intel in the multi-core scalability. In addition to having sustained loads at
higher frequencies, AMD provided additional uniformity to its performance across different
parallel processing eventualities (Ansys Blog, 2024). AMD is more appealing to businesses that
need high-performance computing with better thermal efficiency and a low total operation cost.
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The EPYC CPU manufactured by AMD is amazing in terms of value and performance in
server configurations. Lim et al. (2024) noted that Intel dominated in heavy compute, whereas
Advanced Micro Devices dominated in parallelized tasks. Also, AMD EPYC Rome provided good
memory access patterns in the case of large data applications compared to Intel Cascade Lake
(Velten et al., 2022). The power of AMD in the energy-efficient supercomputer, that is, 60
percent of the supercomputers in the Green500 high-performance list, highlights the
achievement
AMD in data centers (Advanced Micro Devices, 2024).
Power Efficiency and Cost
Energy use is a determining factor when it comes to the overall cost of ownership. The
architectures of AMD use current nodes of TSMC and provide enhanced efficiencies in terms of
energy consumption in one unit of performance, decreasing the number of servers, power
consumption, and cooling requirements (Tom Hardware, 2025; Advanced Micro Devices, 2024).
The cost savings are up to 38 per cent in power and 39 per cent in three-year costs compared to
the Intel Xeon counterparts (Advanced Micro Devices, 2024).
AMD often ends up at the top regarding price per core and threads. Research indicates
AMD has more cores at an equivalent budget in industrial and business configurations (RJPN, ‥
2023). Intel tends to dominate the market regarding per-core speed and the number of
integrated graphics, making it the choice of buyers who require high single-threaded
performance
(UltaHost, 2024).
Compatibility and Security
The dominance by Intel also translates into compatibility: a wider range of motherboards
and a greater range of Original Equipment Manufacturer support. Businesses that prefer
durability and vendor relationships can lean towards Intel for stability and driver guarantee.
Although competitive, AMD has reached maturity because of its open ecosystem (such as the
broad OS support and Linux optimization) (Advanced Micro Devices, 2024).
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Security plays a key role in business. Intel has focused on the enterprise level of security,
but the two companies have been vulnerable. Intel SGX and Intel AMT offer hardware-based
protection and management options, which have been challenged by the Secure Encrypted
Virtualization (SEV) offered by AMD. Companies that focus on distant control over part of their
computers and encrypted virtualization might be biased towards Intel, but the capabilities of
AMD are quickly catching up.
Typical Office Productivity
Reliability and power efficiency, matter more in tasks like document editing and web
applications. The stable single-core CPUs with powerful integrated graphics from Intel are still
good solutions. AMD’s cost-efficient and power-saving solutions are equally performing, which
makes them more appealing to IT budget optimization.
Applications that are heavily parallelized--rendering, compilation, data analytics, etc., are
successful on AMD’s high core-count platforms. For example, Ansys benchmarks reveal that
AMD Genoa has excelled over Intel in the case of multi-core performance (Ansys blog, 2024).
Having a higher core density and memory bandwidth, AMD EPYC servers are economically more
suitable for virtualization and containerized environments.
The AI and HPC data centers use AMD ‘s energy-efficient high-throughput processors.
Eighty percent of the EPYC and Instinct GPUs provide high flops-per-watt in 60 percent of the
leading Green500 supercomputers (Advanced Micro Devices, 2024). Intel responds to these
needs with new 6th-gen Xeon lines, including P-core and E-core, focusing on AI/efficiency, and at
early Intel cores lagging AMD in power-per-performance (Reuters, 2024). Market trends are
leading toward AMD, particularly in data centers, their choice will be subject to the type of
workload. Intel can only be used in offices, but not as fast in efficiency and high throughput
(WSJ, 2024).
In conclusion certain things such as workload demand, power limitation, and cost
constraints should be considered when deciding between AMD and Intel. AMD is the biggest in
efficiency and multi-core cost-effectiveness and is suitable for servers and HPC. Intel remains the
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leader in single-speed cores, built-in graphics, and business interest. Deciding which one is not
always straightforward; making the right decision guarantees the best performance and cost
consistent with the business strategy.
References
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high-performance solutions in the public sector [White paper]. ADVANCED
MICRO DEVICES. https://www.Advanced Micro Devices.com
Ansys. (2024, December). Powering Ansys Mechanical simulations: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES
vs. Intel. Ansys Blog. https://www.ansys.com/blog/powering-ansysmechanical-
simulations-Advanced Micro Devices-vs-intel
Lim, R., Lubis, I. F., Simanjuntak, J. H. F., Kembaren, M. R., & Sitompul, D. (2024). Analysis of the
differences between Intel and ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES processor designs.
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RJPN. (2023). Comparison & Analysis of ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES chips & Intel chips.
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https://rjpn.org/ijcspub/papers/IJCSP24B1197.pdf
Tom’s Hardware. (2025, June). Intel vs ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES: Which CENTRAL
PROCESSING UNITS are better in 2025? Tom’s Hardware.
https://www.tomshardware.com/features/Advanced Micro Devices-vs-intel-central
processing units
WSJ. (2024, August 3). Intel disappointed investors. For corporate customers, it is still good
enough—The Wall Street Journal.
UltaHost. (2024, September). ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES vs Intel: Which processor should you
choose? UltaHost Blog. https://ultahost.com/blog/Advanced Micro Devicesvs-intel/
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Velten, M., Schöne, R., & Ilsche, T. (2022, April). Memory performance of ADVANCED MICRO
DEVICES EPYC Rome and Intel Cascade Lake SP server processors. arXiv.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03290
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