AMD's superiority over Intel in tech turned out to be mere marketing

Blogger Roman Hartung decided to study transistors in Intel and AMD processors, which are made using different technologies

processes - 14 and 7 nanometers. As a result, he came to the conclusion that the superiority of the “reds” over the “blues” in this regard is ordinary marketing.

For the study, the blogger took older models -Intel Core i9-10900K and AMD Ryzen 9 3950X. Using an electron microscope, he obtained images of transistors in the area where the second level cache was located. The blogger then analyzed the images.

As it turns out, the transistor gate width of the 14- and 7-nm process technologies is not very different. For the Intel model it was 24 nm, and for the AMD model it was 22 nm. The height of the shutters turned out to be almost equal.

To be fair, it should be noted that the 7nm process technology was still slightly better. But the difference is not so significant as to seriously criticize Intel for 14nm technology.