intel or amd cpu's?

Question

so im building a gaming computer soon enough but i know pretty much nothing and my friends were talking about amd cpu's and i didnt know anything about it and then they were like your going to be building a pc and you dont even know this. So Ive been thinking I should just get an amd one that is like 70-100 pounds for like 3.5ghz compared to an intel one thats around 100 pounds more so what ones?

Answer 1

If you can swing it financially, Intel makes the superior CPUs. Intel's architecture has been more efficient and more effective than AMD's has been since about 2006. AMD's offerings have been comprised of more, but noticeably weaker cores and higher clock speeds (which isn't an effective metric when you're comparing CPUs that have vastly different architecture), but overall when it comes to gaming the very best consumer AMD CPU (FX-9xxx) is only about equal to an Intel i5 4xxx. Intel basically owns the upper midrange and high end consumer CPU market. With that said, Intel CPUs carry a price premium.

Answer 2

Typically, an AMD CPU is on average about 70-80% the same performance as Intel CPU's with the same GHz rating. But of course, the AMD CPU's are much cheaper too. AMD CPU's typically also give you higher GHz, and more cores for the money than Intel ones. This wasn't very important in the olden days when DirectX was single-threaded, so just the fastest single-core performance was important. But now with DirectX 12, it is completely multithreaded. So you'll likely find AMD CPU's are highly competitive in Windows 10 and DirectX 12 games.

Answer 3

Intel.



But depending who you ask it's like asking about DSLRs. Canon or Nikon? AMD have been steadily dropping the ball (CPUs even worse than GPUs) for nearly ten years.