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You can not predict performance based on that simple feature list. If you go to passmark, you will find benchmark results that give a pretty good indication of relative speed of thousands of different CPUs. Currently all the fastest chips are from Intel, mostly because of their lead in the feature size, which I think is currently 22 nanometers. Smaller transistors means more transistors so fewer steps are required per instruction, more instructions can be done at once etc. And it means less power so more stuff can be put on one chip. However many AMD chips are great bang-for-the-buck. Intel is also more conservative about things like thermal management. An Intel chip will probably shut down rather than burn up like some AMD chips do if they are not properly cooled.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/intel-teases-22-nano...

http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-2032

You have to use a processor that's compatible with your mobo and you can't change an intel processor with an AMD to begin with. You also can't just poke any old processor in your particular board. You need to read your board specs to find out what it accepts.

Edit: has nothing to do with better either. I switched to AMD for all my personal builds 15 years ago and never looked back, never had a failure, and never had a problem running software. "You" is full of crap.

Amd just isn't that good. Intel is better and has better design.