Gordon it's the eternal debate AMD versus Intel on the CPU side of things
you know say we're not gonna look at the you know high high core count thread
rippers and Zeon's and and we're you know we're gonna get a discrete GPU what
do you think is the landscape out there for CPUs what are the strengths and
weaknesses of AMD what are the strengths and weaknesses of until well first no
matter what you read no matter what you hear there is no right answer there is a
right answer for you so don't let anybody else tell you you made the wrong
decision on what you bought but right now I think md has the advantage for
most people discrete graphics okay first let's go over why Intel is great why
Intel's fantastic right now Intel has higher clock speeds yeah they generally
have slightly better I pcs they have an infrastructure that has been nailed down
longer they've been being told boards that have been around a lot longer so
kind of if you want to consider more stable right AMD rise in motherboards
pretty new most ninety percent of time 99% time no problems but Intel is the
rock that they can lean on because it's Intel it's it's all the warm fuzzy
nassif given with an Intel product but the reason why I'm gonna say AMD still
better is because it's just so much value which is you get more cores or
more threads more hardware because a lot of AMD CPUs you actually get the cooler
inside Intel doesn't give you the cooler with most of its high-end parts okay so
you got a factor in buying a cooler and then there's a price difference
generally Intel 97 or k97 z KF that's coming out the 9800 K 9900 KF that's
coming out faster higher clocks pricier - oh yeah five hundred and thirty
dollars for the highest n part if you can get them if you can get it three
almost four hundred dollars for the 97 2 K versus what you're getting out of AMD
eight cores eight thread 2,700 X is to 84 with the cooler rise in 520 600 X is
185 with the cool you're looking at $200 to $150 more in
your pocket with AMD now in tow we'll give you higher clocks generally better
gaming performance sometimes better application performance because
everybody runs on Intel they've been optimizing for Intel for a long time
generally faster I'm willing to give up say 20% of frame rate okay generally
that's across the board and in games older games especially where it's just
CPU limited not GPU limited because for the hundred and fifty to two hundred
dollars I will get out of AMD I could put that toward a fatter GPU so for a
gaming machine and most of these processors without integrated graphics
let's face that they're being used for gaming machines that's the risk in a
twenty sixty and a twenty seventy practically pretty close $200 will
definitely get you from a 2060 to a twenty seventy 150 a little less but
still you're a lot closer to a twenty seventy that's a big step up in graphics
and for most games you're gonna want a fatter GPU rather than a fatter GPU true
that's not to say Intel is got problems again we just said it's faster you also
get quick sync as you mentioned for people who do video editing quick sync
important is a huge difference it slays CPU base encoding and it only even kick
the smoke out of GPU encoding for the most part it's pretty awesome yeah you
can only get that on Intel or people who are into video premiere or those kind of
things that might actually be worth it yeah well and there's some people out
there who've been burned by AMD in the past yeah I mean yeah there's there are
some bad bad blood in the past the AMD CPUs have not been the fastest in the
past but Rison is a real deal it's a real fast CPU most applications it's
gonna be very close somewhat faster than Intel it's kind of Intel counterpart
something's a little slower and in gaming generally 10-15 percent slower
worst case scenario maybe 20 percent depending on the game okay if it's a
pure GPU limited game if you're playing a battlefield 5 rate race or metro
Exodus rate race it's not gonna make that much of a difference yeah so I say
the advantage goes to AMD I think for most people
AMD but if you've got the money you're not that price sensitive I am but
you're not that price sensitive or you want the absolute best for a you know
mainstream single socket gaming machine 1900 k97 2k still got a strong message
but will cost more okay well actually I am very interested to hear what you have
to say about this why did you decide to pick AMD or Intel or why are you going
to pick one of them you know I want to hear what people think you know about
the landscape as of right now like you said earlier they shouldn't just listen
to you Gordon no I think I've definitely nobody right don't definitely none
depends on your use case so what's not the best hardware it's what's the best
hardware for you exactly or some people quick sink higher
clocks it's best for them cost them more but it's best for them
yeah right okay well the Thank You Gordon for your for trying to take on
this eternal debate for me and we will talk to you later