According to Intel, this pamphlet they have published is designed to help customers detect “half-truths” about the competition, of course referring directly to AMD. It includes a total of four “truths” in which Intel tries to explain to users the differences between its range of Core processors and the competing Ryzen CPU line… but in a quite direct and even alarming way.
According to Intel, AMD uses old cores in its processors
Starting with the first “truth,” Intel says that AMD is selling an outdated processor architecture in its Ryzen 7000 processor family. The chip used as an example is the Ryzen 7520U, a 6nm Zen 2-based Mendocino architecture. This architecture was launched in 2019 with a 7nm lithography, and was later upgraded to 6nm. It also houses an RDNA 2 architecture for its integrated GPU.
It must be said that we have always criticized the confusing and almost abstract nomenclature that AMD uses in its processors, especially when it comes to laptop processors, although it is also true that we can say the same about the nomenclature that Intel uses, which does not leave anything clear. the characteristics of the chip just by looking at its name, just as it was before. The first generation Intel Core CPUs have Raptor Lake architecture, while the first generation Core Ultra are Meteor Lake, but their nomenclature is similar.
For example, look at these AMD processors from the Ryzen 7000 family:
- Mendocino (Ryzen 7020 Series) – Input range
- Barcelo-R (Ryzen 7030 Series) – Mid-range for mobility
- Rembrandt-R (Ryzen 7035 Series) – Premium range for mobility
- Phoenix Point (Ryzen 7040 Series) – Elite Ultrathin
- Dragon Range (Ryzen 7045 Series) – Gaming and content creators
They all seem to be from the same generation and architecture if we go by the name, but nothing could be further from the truth. But with Intel exactly the same thing happens:
- Raptor Lake Refresh (Core 120U)
- Meteor Lake (Core Ultra 125U)
The second “truth” is more or less the same as the first, claiming that AMD's nomenclature is confusing and that they are selling processors with old cores in the new product family. In the third “truth”, Intel emphasizes that the future of education depends on the latest technology, as if emphasizing that users cannot be fooled into believing that they are buying the latest technology when this is not the case.
But the interesting thing comes in the fourth “truth” (if you notice, we are always putting it in quotes because they are truths for Intel, they do not have to be real truths, excuse the redundancy), in which Intel says that not all cores give you the best performance, and here they talk about the hybrid architecture of Intel Core processors from the 12th generation, which as you know use E cores for efficiency and P for performance. For their part, AMD's hybrid chips use the same ISA (Zen 4 and Zen 4C) and therefore we consider that Intel is not right and that, in fact, this “truth” goes against them. They've shot themselves in the foot, wow.
From our point of view, what seems true is that Intel has jumped to openly criticize AMD for using marketing strategies that they also use. It is true that AMD is sinning much more in this generation than them, and it is true that they use old cores in processors that by their name should be of the current generation, but it certainly seems absurd that they launch into criticism when they themselves do the same , don't you think?