Why are AMD's Dual Core so much more than Intel's Dual Core?

Question

I haven't kept myself up to date with the hardware scene lately. Why is it that Intel Dual Core processors (like the 805D) are so much cheaper than those from AMD. Also, why is it that AMD processors often have a smaller L2 cache?

Answer 1

This is before the release of Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme:
1. AMD increased the price as their dual core processors (Athlon FX-2) series are better and faster than Intel Pendium D's. Also they are bigger (90n) as compared to Intel (60n) die size.
2. Some AMD's have lower cache to decrease the price of cpu. But overall, it is the trend of both AMD and Intel to make the cache to 512 or 1MB cache.

Now with the release of Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme, Intel has again regained the "King of processors" crown. With this, AMD has announced to cut the prices of its processors just to be competitive. Just imagine, the lowest Core 2 duo performs as almost the best Athlon FX-2 processor at a much lower price. It is estimated that AMD will cut the price at around 40-50% just to keep the price to performance ratio. Intel then announced that they will also slash the prices of its processors. Clearly, the winners here are the consumers. Thanks to the Core 2 duo and Core 2 extreme. The competition is back!

We are looking at a renewed war that happened in the Pentium 3 vs K7 Athlon last time. At that time, Pentium 3 was winning but K7 Athlon prices was really a sweet bargain. AMD went into the upper hand with the release of their K8 Athlon and FX series dominating the Pentium 4.

Answer 2

he is right about the amd 64 but everyone in server and gamming are using the opteron the good intel boards are more expencive and the 800 series run realy hot the 900 series are suppose to be cool but i think its better and more economical to buy the dual opteron serverboards and run 2 single cores just get a board that doznt have shared memory and you get twice the band width way faster and gives you option to go dual core when the price is lower the more cache the more heat but amds usally have half the cache with same performance and use less power