It use to be that AMD chipset instructions and Intel chipset instructions differed slightly. That difference was chiefly reflected in DAWs by how the two chipsets handled audio timing.

The AMD chipsets did not have some of the low level chipset instructions most DAWs of the time used. The chipset's lack of specific low level instructions would cause a crash whenever the DAW issued one of the low level instructions.

The issue was resolved by DAW developers identifying and removing the offending low level instructions and AMD modifying chipset instructions to be more compatible with Intel chipset instructions.

Current DAWs do not have issues working with AMD chipsets. In fact because cpu speed and chipset instruction speed is so important to how fast and smooth a DAW performs some builders of dedicated audio production machines prefer AMD at this tie.

Jim Fogle - 2025 BiaB (Build 1128) RB (Build 5) - Ultra+ PAK
DAWs: Cakewalk Sonar - Standalone: Zoom MRS-8
Laptop: i3 Win 10, 8GB ram 500GB HDD
Desktop: i7 Win 11, 12GB ram 256GB SSD, 4 TB HDD
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