In: Computer Science
CPU Company, AMD vs Intel vs ARM
which CPU model that compete between these 3 companies? What's their specification?
Processor-Processors are a small chip that provides the input and output communications of a computer so to speak.
ARM processors are a type of architecture and therefore they do not have only one manufacturer. Both Apple and Android manufacturers use this technology in their mobile devices whereas Intel and AMD are generally used in computers.
POWER CONSUMPTION:
ARM processors have been and still are the preferred
choice in applications were low power
properties are crucial. Comparing power consumption is not
uncomplicated. Aspects like
operating system, RAM size and type, FLASH storage and interfaces
used need to be
separated from the influence of the processor. A general rule
however is that ARM is really
strong in terms of modes and possibilities to shut down the
processor and await a wake-up.
When we look to overall power consumption of a system, Intel
definitely suffered the early downfall .
Its Pentium 4 processors had a very bad reputation of 150W TDP.
Intel tried to solve the problem in
its Intel i7 960 processor, which goes to less than 95W TDP. But,
experiments have still proved that a
machine running on an Intel i7 960 processor consumed, at least 7W
more power, than an AMD
Sempron . But in today AMD to produce a new product, “AMD Phenom X4
II. ” Product in product far
greater to AMD products before, This Power Consumption 125 watt AMD
can give than the Intel Core
i7 , that only 95.
COST:
Low cost, single core versions of the i.MX 6 processor are roughly half the price compared to the X86 competition. Then again such a low cost i.MX 6 has clearly fewer functions and interfaces so the comparison isn’t really fair. High-end i.MX 6 versions have a feature set and interfaces. Those are comparable to the X86 processors in the segment but prices are roughly the same as well.A detailed evaluation and comparison most often lead to the same conclusion of the two X86 processor options from AMD and Intel. They both respectively have more high-speed interfaces, better general computing and graphics performance. AMD Embedded G-Series SOC is the more costly processor option. But what motivates the extra cost is the fact that the overall graphics performance is higher.But AMD processors were cheaper, as compared to Intel and ARM and they definitely did provide high value performance.
Cores:
A core is a processor that receives and executes instructions. The more cores a CPU has, the more tasks it can handle, and the more efficient it is.AMD’s main selling point is having a high number of cores. On the other hand, Intel has traditionally foregone large core counts in favor of hyperthreading. With hyperthreading, the CPU divides physical cores to virtual cores or threads to do multiple things at once.
The "R" in "Arm" actually stands for another acronym: Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). Its purpose is to leverage the efficiency of simplicity, to render all of the processor's functionality on a single chip. Keeping a processor's instruction set small means it can be coded using a fewer number of bits, thus reducing memory consumption as well as execution cycle time,that's what makes an SoC with a set of small cores feasible.
Hope you like the explanation.Thank you