AMD And Intel

[john3]

I have a question thats kinda confusing me.

How can AMD be good at running Games and not wrong programs as well as Intel? dont games usually demand more power than programs?
So if AMD can satisfy a game, how come it cant easily satisfy a program like photoshop?

 

[Chankama]

Different processors are built for different purposes. The hardware itself can be designed to be "better" at some tasks than others. For example, you can buy special processors than are amazing at doing cryptography that will pwn any Intel/AMD processor in the market.

It's a design issue really. The management decides the requirements and sends the techie staff to design it.

 

[john3]

But i dont understand how that works, a program is clearly demading less power than a game, so how can a Processor that can run a thing as powerful as a game and yet not be able to run something as simple as a program?

 

[Chankama]

But i dont understand how that works, a program is clearly demading less power than a game, so how can a Processor that can run a thing as powerful as a game and yet not be able to run something as simple as a program?

A game IS a program as well.

And "programs" (that are not games) are not necessarily not less demanding than games. I've run many s/w that are 10x more demanding than games on the processor.

In order to describe "how" two processors are different from each other and how it effects performance between different types of applications needs some time.

But to give you a very simple example:
Encryption s/w would benefit more from integer processing power than floating point. And engineering calculations would need a lot of floating point power. Depending on where the resources are allocated, the CPU could be made to be better at one task than the other, or vice versa.

 

[Ste]

John3: you need to Use the forum Search Feature. Your Question Has been answered ALOT! Of times.

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?threadid=34691

 

[Nitestick]

a program is clearly demading less power than a game

heavy video encoding etc will generally do more than a game. basically AMD is optimised for games, there are certain things that games need processed more than anything else and AMD has adapted their processors so that it can execute these tasks faster

 

[Vybuni]

Many games are more graphics intensive than CPU intensive, so much of the load rests on the graphics card. Programs, such as encoding programs, are almost purely CPU. As nitestick said, AMD processors are better optimized for gaming because of the number of instructions per cycle.

 

[Jam3s-Zer0]

[Bhow come it cant easily satisfy a program like photoshop? [/B]

Lol alot of Amd processors can 'satisfy' demanding programs.

 

[john3]

k but, if i were to get AMD would i have problems running a program like Photoshop?

 

[Nitestick]

no. basically anything AMD currently manufactures and even a fair way back will run photoshop. i don't know what source your information is coming from but if it is a real person they should be slapped. we wouldn't buy crippled processors for crying out loud