By TechAvenue

 

Welcome to TechAvenue's’s first ever annual World's Most Powerful Consumer Computer Chip Award for 2013. This year's annual contenders are nVidia, intel and AMD.

 

First up, weighing in at 1.86 billion transistors we have in one corner intel’s most powerful consumer chip the Ivy Bridge Core i7 4960X. This monster comes packed with 6 cores and 15MB L3 cache and costs an astounding and (some would say ridiculously high) price of  $1049.99.  This CPU has punching capacity of nearly 100 Gigaflops.

 

Next we have nVidias GTX 780 Ti. This $700 beast outputs around 5.04 Teraflops and it’s nVidias fastest consumer chip.

 

Lastly, we have the perennial underdog AMD. It's fastest chip is the R9 290X which sales for a surprisingly low price of $549.99. Not only does it match or beat nVidia's GTX Titan but it costs almost half the price of the Titan which costs $1000.0 and its $150.0 less than the 780 Ti.

 

So, who is the winner of the 2013 World’s Most Powerful Consumer Computer Chip? Well, the answer is obvious and that title goes to AMD with its 5.6 Teraflop R9 290X. AMD had a very strong 2nd half of 2013 and it got rave reviews for it’s R9 2XX series of GPUs. The perennial underdog has beaten the mighty intel and nVidia and takes our First Ever World Most Powerful Consumer Computer Chip Award.

 

Congratulations to AMD and we look forward to amazing products coming out of AMD in 2014.