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German hardware overclocker and hacker, der8auer, has decided to see how production level silicon compares one to another, and he put it to the test. He decided to use Intel's Core i9-10900K processor and compare it to AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X under a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
To get a fair comparison as possible, he used the L2 cache part of both processors as they are always the best representatives of a node. The logic portion of the chip is different for every chip, so it would be difficult to compare two different microarchitectures. That is the reason level two cache is used to get a fair comparison. The results? Well, the Intel chip features transistors with a gate width of 24 nm, while the AMD chip has a gate width of 22 nm. (lower is better obviously)
TPU
In other words, although Intel is behind, it's nowhere "two times" behind as it might seem based on the node names.
Which makes AMD's lead even more impressive.
To get a fair comparison as possible, he used the L2 cache part of both processors as they are always the best representatives of a node. The logic portion of the chip is different for every chip, so it would be difficult to compare two different microarchitectures. That is the reason level two cache is used to get a fair comparison. The results? Well, the Intel chip features transistors with a gate width of 24 nm, while the AMD chip has a gate width of 22 nm. (lower is better obviously)
TPU
In other words, although Intel is behind, it's nowhere "two times" behind as it might seem based on the node names.
Which makes AMD's lead even more impressive.