AMD vs. Intel: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for CPU Dominance

Silicon warfare escalates as AMD and Intel lock horns in the processor arms race.

Performance Wars Heat Up

AMD's Ryzen 5000 series cuts through benchmarks like a hot knife through butter—while Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake fights back with hybrid architecture.

Price-Performance Smackdown

Team Red's chips deliver more cores per dollar, but Team Blue counters with better single-thread speeds. Gamers and miners alike face analysis paralysis.

The Manufacturing Edge

TSMC's 5nm process gives AMD an efficiency lead, while Intel's 'five nodes in four years' pledge smells suspiciously like corporate hopium.

Epic Conclusion

Winner takes the data center—loser gets relegated to prebuilt office PCs. Meanwhile, Wall Street still can't decide if semiconductors are cyclical or secular (spoiler: they're both).

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AMD CEO Lisa Su said that she expects the company will see its CPU server revenue market share reach above 50% over the next three to five years. While Su doesn’t call out Intel specifically, it is AMD’s main rival in the space. If AMD expects to capture the majority of the market, that isn’t a good sign for Intel.

Turning to the consumer sector, AMD has made steady gains against Intel. Su predicts AMD will obtain a 40% share of this market, eroding away Intel’s current 72% market share dominance. Evidence to back this up comes from Steam’s hardware surveys. The percentage of users with AMD CPUs installed has climbed to 42.09% over the past five months from 39.65%. At the same time, the percentage of Intel CPUs used by Steam customers has dropped to 57.82% from 60.27%.

AMD & Intel Stock Movements Today

AMD stock was down 0.9% on Friday but remained up 101.73% year-to-date. The shares have also increased 83.81% over the past 12 months. As noted above, these 2025 gains are largely tied to the AI boom.

Intel stock dropped 1.7% on Friday but was still up 76.06% year-to-date. The shares have rallied 47.47% over the past 12 months. Like AMD, Intel has gained thanks to the AI boom. It also secured a major investment from the U.S. government.

AMD vs. INTC: Which Stock Do Analyst Prefer?

Turning to the TipRanks stock comparison tool, traders can see which of these two stocks analysts favor. AMD has the better analysts’ consensus rating at Moderate Buy, compared to a Hold for Intel. AMD shares also sport a higher price target upside of 14.19%, while INTC’s sits at just 1.06%.