Can someone eli5 to me the difference between AMD chips and Intel’s?

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It’s my understanding that AMD manufactures more powerful chips? gpu’s? for far less cost and that once a company is locked into one brand they can’t move to the other because of compatibility issues? What are the issues? I work in OEM distribution but obviously not technical… based on ability I would think customers would always pick servers/ whatever with AMD inside because of the “more for less” capability but Intel has such a strong hold on the market that doesn’t seem to be fading.

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Intel and AMD are roughly even in term of CPU performance at the moment. Before that AMD enjoyed a small lead for a few years, and before that Intel dominated. Intel still has a majority of the market (~80%) due them offering superior products for almost 15 years. (The last time they had even shares was around 2005).

Some OEM are locked into using only either Intel or AMD through contracts or simply inertia.

Both AMD and Intel build GPUs, although Intel is very new to the discrete GPU market. AMD has a bigger market share than Intel, but they are both dwarfed by NVidia.

The only compatibility problem on the CPU side is the motherboard. AMD and Intel CPUs require different motherboards with different (but similar) chips on it. Computers with an AMD CPUs can run the same software using the same GPU and memory as computers with Intel CPUs.

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