Q2.
Comparative Analysis of AMD and Intel Products (CPU and GPU)
Aspect AMD Intel
CPU Architecture Zen 5 (Ryzen 9000, EPYC Lunar Lake / Core Ultra 200
“Turin”) – up to ~16% IPC – P-cores + E-cores,
gain over Zen 4, chiplet integrated NPU for AI tasks,
design, large L3 cache memory-on-package.
(including 3D V-Cache). Optimized for thin-and-light
Strong in desktops & laptops.
servers.
Manufacturing Process TSMC advanced nodes Intel 18A / external
(N4/N4P). foundries; advanced
packaging with integrated
memory.
Graphics (Consumer) RDNA 3/4 integrated & Intel Arc discrete GPUs, Xe-
discrete Radeon GPUs. based integrated graphics.
Graphics (Data Center) Instinct MI300X (CDNA 3) – Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator –
192 GB HBM3, ~5.3 TB/s strong interconnect
bandwidth. Optimized for bandwidth, scalable AI
large AI/LLM workloads. training/inference, Nvidia
alternative.
Performance Ryzen 9000/X3D leads in Competitive clock speeds,
(Desktop/Gaming) gaming due to high clock but lags behind AMD in
speed + cache advantage. many gaming benchmarks.
Strong multi-threaded
workloads.
Performance Ryzen AI (Strix) improving, Lunar Lake excels in
(Mobile/Laptops) but still limited adoption in performance-per-watt,
ultrabooks. battery life, and on-chip AI
acceleration.
Performance EPYC (Zen 5) – high core Xeon 6 Series – dominant
(Servers/Workstations) count, excellent multi- but facing pressure from
thread and server AMD; optimized for
workloads. ~27% server enterprise reliability.
CPU market share.
Power Efficiency Chiplet design + TSMC Lunar Lake achieves major
process → strong battery efficiency gains;
performance-per-watt, NPUs offload AI tasks to
especially in servers. save power.
Market Trends (2025) ~32% desktop CPU share Still dominant in laptops
(rising); ~27% server CPU (~70–80%); strong brand
share. Growing presence in presence in enterprise.
AI accelerators. Competing in AI with Gaudi
3.
Best Use Cases Gaming PCs, high- Ultra-portable laptops,
performance desktops, enterprise systems, and
servers, and memory- scalable AI training clusters.
intensive AI workloads.
