Solved System info says Intel, Powershell says AMD. Which is it?

Have I misunderstood all along? Are these not different? Are some Intel Core CPUs built with AMD architecture?
I have been assuming the info given by both of these methods came from actually querying the hardware, so if I put in a different processor now and started the machine up the info would show whatever I put in. No? See screenshot. Same image on imgur http://i.imgur.com/NQhaPkg.png just in case.

What does Speccy say? If I had to guess I'd go against PowerShell. No particularly good reason other than that I haven't used it and am therefore suspicious.

AMD has the license for the 64 bit instruction set. The "AMD64" just means your CPU is a 64 bit CPU and is using that instruction set, or code if you want to think about it that way. You have an Intel CPU.

try this

Hi Charlie,
if youve tried speccy have a look at CPUid, its free as well.


Roy

Thanks all. I'm marking this as solved. Had never heard of Speccy or CPU-Z before today.