10 facts about why AMD Processors are great

[Apoptosis]

Fact #1
Billions of financial transactions are conducted quickly and efficiently every day by major stock exchanges around the world on AMD-based servers.

Fact #2
All 50 Million Wii gaming consoles shipped to date run on AMD technology (ATI Hollywood GPU).

Fact #3
7 of the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world are powered by AMD processors.

Fact #4
AMD processors were trusted to power crash safety test simulations for almost 2 million new cars that hit the road in the US in 2008.

Fact #5
Realistic special effects powered by AMD technology have helped Hollywood amass more than $5.4 billion in worldwide box office revenue.

Fact #6
AMD processors in the Top500 supercomputer list account for more than 4.029 petaflops of computing power (that’s more than four thousand trillion calculations per second).

Fact #7
50% of Internet DNS traffic is efficiently and quickly routed via AMD-powered servers.

Fact #8
Musicians and producers who have collectively won 70 Grammy awards currently rely on AMD technology for their cutting edge digital music production.

Fact #9
Every month nearly 23 million travelers find their ideal trip using online travel services powered by AMD-based hardware.

Fact #10
AMD graphics and slot machine are a winning combination. More than 75% of new slot machines in Vegas use AMD graphics to power their visually stunning imagery, and more than half of those machines also use an AMD CPU.

[skier]

power to the little guy!

[Skippman]

As soon as they get an i7 killer I'll jump back on the bandwagon. Hard to argue 32nm.

[GI-JOE]

If I had the funds, I would go back to AMD. My 3800x2 always seemed more "smooth" than my intel cpu's(e2140, e5200).

[InspectahACE]

I remember when my father told me (when he was working at IGT before retiring) that they were switching to dual-core CPU's.. Apparently Intel was even trying to get with them on that front during that time, but slots really don't need too much power to flip a card or turn a wheel. Plus AMD is a bit more affordable. A win for AMD in my book. Oh yea, I just remembered that the GameCube was powered by ATI graphics too.(not that it's too relevant since it's old hardware by now lol)

[Skippman]

I thought the 360 used ATI graphics as well, or am I imaging that?

I've loved AMD since my 486DX4-100. Used them exclusivly until the Core2Duo came out.

[camaroguy1998]

Fact # 3 says it all

4 PC's & 1 Laptop in my house!
3 PC's are AMD
Laptop is AMD(Dell)
The Lone Intel is the only PC I did not build and it's a Dell.
And yes its given me a hard time in the past(2 new mobo's) and right now lost network connections!

AMD

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Oh yea, I just remembered that the GameCube was powered by ATI graphics too.(not that it's too relevant since it's old hardware by now lol)

It might be old hardware but the specs of the ATI GFX capabilities in both are not that far off, unfortunately Still love the gamecube and Wii though, I just pray the next generation nintendo has next generation graphics too, it really does matter.

[HACKhalo2]

I always said AMD was for multimedia stuff, like video and gaming, where Intel was for the workforce. My Rig will be AMD biased, with a HD 4890 GPU.

I just can't wait till AMD comes out with a processor that can do something like hyperthreading, then the tides will turn from Intel to AMD

[werty316]

who would have thunk huh? Those are quite interesting facts.

[x.clay]

AMD has been coming out with some pretty strong CPUs lately. I am seriously considering upgrading to a 955/965 BE in the near future.

[slugbug]

AMD powered slot machines? I wonder if they can be overclocked to pay out more cash

[lordvic]

Nice facts.

As soon as they get an i7 killer I'll jump back on the bandwagon. Hard to argue 32nm.

I can't wait til that happens

I remember when my father told me (when he was working at IGT before retiring) that they were switching to dual-core CPU's.. Apparently Intel was even trying to get with them on that front during that time, but slots really don't need too much power to flip a card or turn a wheel. Plus AMD is a bit more affordable. A win for AMD in my book. Oh yea, I just remembered that the GameCube was powered by ATI graphics too.(not that it's too relevant since it's old hardware by now lol)

Did not know that..cool.

AMD powered slot machines? I wonder if they can be overclocked to pay out more cash

Go AMD/ATi !!

[stev]

When looking for a laptop, AMD was the only choice for me. It was a little hard to find vs. the amount of Intel offerings last year.

#11 The AMD FireStream 9170 provides the industry's first double-precision floating point capability on a GPU. Should be a good folder.

[stopthekilling77]

If I had the funds, I would go back to AMD. My 3800x2 always seemed more "smooth" than my intel cpu's(e2140, e5200).

Thats because the chips you chose are dual core pentiums, and nowhere as quick as other C2D chips

[GI-JOE]

If I had the funds, I would go back to AMD. My 3800x2 always seemed more "smooth" than my intel cpu's(e2140, e5200).

Thats because the chips you chose are dual core pentiums, and nowhere as quick as other C2D chips

Ok, should have specified that I built systems with e6600s and it was the same way. Even though my AMD system seemed more smooth, it can not touch what I have currently in games.

[stopthekilling77]

With LGA775 chips, the higher the FSB the faster they feel. My old E6750 felt faster than my Phenom II 940BE running 500Mhz slower, but it had a FSB of 1333MHz so I guess it makes sense

[FunkZ]

#2 is interesting, didn't know that about the Wii (and I even own one!)

My very first non-OEM PC had an AMD Athlon and I've built AMD systems exclusively ever since. For me it's always been about the performance-per-dollar and it's hard to beat AMD in this arena. For awhile there during the Athlon XP and Athlon 64 era they were even arguably better than Intel. With 4 systems in the house it's certainly easier to maintain when they're all based on AM2/+/3 processors although they haven't sold me on their graphics cards or chipsets.

[Dragon_Cooler]

You forgot Fact #11 and Fact #12

Fact #11 about23076.html

Fact #12 about22787.html

[akaelric]

Where did you get all these facts about AMD processors in super computers?

I work at a large super computing facility and all our machines are intel based.

I'm curious to see a list of other facilities that are using AMD.

thanks
akaElric