WOKE[mindVirus] 2021년 9월 29일 오전 11시 23분
AMD vs Intel; Which CPUs Are Better for gaming?
I'm considering to get a new pc for gaming (on Steam). Which is better to go with AMD or Intel i7?
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Sav 2021년 9월 29일 오후 1시 46분 
I have Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU. I have far fewer problems than my friends with anything AMD. Look at User reviews online and you will see more AMD users complaining of catastrophic failures and generally lower quality than Intel and Nvidia. AMD is like a Ram pickup. They are pretty sweet and capable on paper, but then you are replacing a turbo at 65k miles and a wheel literally falls off before 100k miles and a transmission blows at 125k miles. You houldn't believe what sellers say their product is capable of. Rams suck ass IRL and so does AMD.
just.kamk /idle 2021년 9월 29일 오후 1시 58분 
_I_님이 먼저 게시:
both are good
high fps needs fast cores, ryzen 5xxx and intel 10xxx+ have good enough ipc and clocks to run any current game at 60+fps
But who wants to play at 60+, if you can play at 120+? Just kidding, i get your point.

Otaku_Hikikomori님이 먼저 게시:
I'm considering to get a new pc for gaming (on Steam). Which is better to go with AMD or Intel i7?
In the end it depends on resolution and overall budget.
You actually have any decent GPU, but your budget is tight? Go for something like a 11400.
You actually have a higher end GPU, and you play high end resolutions and graphics? Heck, some 3700x or so yields the same as some current gent.
You don't even have discrete graphics, nor do you wanna spend a crap ton in the upcoming months? Well, AMD is your bet right now.
...

List goes on and on. Rather spend your money in generally decent hardware, to have a strong foundation, than just looking at some benchmarks that probably don't even concern you.
Illusion of Progress 2021년 9월 29일 오후 2시 11분 
Sav님이 먼저 게시:
I have Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU. I have far fewer problems than my friends with anything AMD. Look at User reviews online and you will see more AMD users complaining of catastrophic failures and generally lower quality than Intel and Nvidia. AMD is like a Ram pickup. They are pretty sweet and capable on paper, but then you are replacing a turbo at 65k miles and a wheel literally falls off before 100k miles and a transmission blows at 125k miles. You houldn't believe what sellers say their product is capable of. Rams suck ass IRL and so does AMD.
Anecdotal criteria is just that. Conclusions that "AMD fails more" because you read of this and that or you have a few friends that have issues doesn't actually make it so. There's also a lot of people who don't have many, if any, issues. I've run almost exclusively Intel since the Core 2 since Intel was just better since then until recently, but with my last upgrade, a Ryzen 7 3700X was a much better looking offer than the Core i7 10700K was at the time, so I went with it. I've had an issue with a really strange random restart chance after startup with one BIOS version (and thank goodness for the BIOS rollback feature or that could have become a bigger issue, yes), but that's been the extent of my issues. Teething issues with new things happen across the board. Yeah Intel probably IS a bit more solid here if I had to make a guess based on anecdotes, but AMD isn't something that will fall apart in a few years because of that.

I can't speak of their GPUs as I don't own one so I won't speak based on what I read others say because others can say it and not need to be parroted, leading to exaggerated sweeping claims based on anecdotes. Regardless of the GPUs, the CPU side of things is completely different. There was a rough patch with stability issues on some BIOS/AGESA versions when Zen 3 launched but that's been improved. There were also generally poorer boards for AMD until recently (think AMD Phenom/FX days), but that's not entirely on AMD either. None of the board manufacturers wanted to invest in good AMD products because of the dwindling user base, but that's been changing as AMD gets more competitive and gets more users.

Want to know the funny thing? The one actual issue I had with my new platform, the motherboard, was due to the NIC... and it is an Intel NIC. "Go for the Intel NIC over the Realtek NIC" they said. It's a flawed chip that should have resulted in a recall, because the 2.5 GB chip on early revisions (of which my board has) has a "fix" that limits it to 1 GB. I had random disconnects (infrequently, mind you) when I first got it. It's been somewhat ironed over now but I imagine it's because the speed was limited (I don't need 2.5 GB so it's not a "problem" for me personally but it's a notable failure when you have to cut your product more than in half to fix it).
76561198343548661 2021년 9월 29일 오후 2시 34분 
I know a person who loved his FX 8350 and when got his new Ryzen 5900X , he was amazed by the boost .

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12 gen Intel seems to not deliver any boost to the performace . I expect , the advantage will be the power draw compared to the previous gen of Intel
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just.kamk /idle 2021년 9월 29일 오후 2시 39분 
littlecat20160님이 먼저 게시:
I know a person who loved his FX 8350 and when got his new Ryzen 5900X , he was amazed by the boost .
Huge difference in IPC, which results in less core based bottlenecks.
FX 8350 to anything Intel / AMD based for the past 3-4 years should yield a very nice boost for majority of games.
(sadly enough, 8350 was a very good CPU, just ahead of its time, kinda...?)
76561198343548661 2021년 9월 29일 오후 2시 46분 
kamk /idle , when he bought his FX 8350 , Intel were better but i didnt manage to persude him to get Intel i5 . But now he made the right choice .
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_I_ 2021년 9월 29일 오후 2시 54분 
hopefully he got his check from amd for false advertising on fx 'core count'

fx8 has 4 modules, each module with 2 threads, shared cache bank and 1 fpu
is like 2 workers sharing a cubicle with a single desk and calculator
they cant work on different tasks at the same time

thats what killed the ipc on fx
fx ipc was even outperformed by the pii series, but fx had higher clocks which kinda made up for it
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76561198343548661 2021년 9월 29일 오후 2시 58분 
He s unlikely to ever look at FX 8350 any more , he s got Ryzen 5900X . I doubt he needs such power , but that money was his money

In fact the cores are 8 , in 4 chunks (FX 8350)

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I think he wants to have the best PC . So , i guess if one day i get Ryzen 5900X , he ll go and buy at leat 2x faster than mine . But i dont compete with him .According to him , he has to have the best . lol
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Monk 2021년 9월 29일 오후 3시 29분 
littlecat20160님이 먼저 게시:
He s unlikely to ever look at FX 8350 any more , he s got Ryzen 5900X . I doubt he needs such power , but that money was his money

In fact the cores are 8 , in 4 chunks (FX 8350)

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I think he wants to have the best PC . So , i guess if one day i get Ryzen 5900X , he ll go and buy at leat 2x faster than mine . But i dont compete with him .According to him , he has to have the best . lol

He has to have the best, yet stayed with a crap platform gir a decade and didn't buy a 5950x?

Thst doesn't add up, I don't think this friend of yours exists.

Not that you should trust them, but the leaks of the 12900k show it crushing the 5950x in production workloads, so, once again you appear to be, being less than honest and pushing fanboy rubbish as usual.

OP,
Reading through the thread there are clearly two different type of reply, the short 'my team best cos I have it' and then there's the longer replies pointing out how it varies based on budget and use case giving examples of how both have their pro's and cons.

Which you chose to listen to, is down to you, but for a better set of answers, try letting us all know your budget and use case.
76561198343548661 2021년 9월 29일 오후 4시 05분 
He is my uncle , who lives in Germany (i live in another country , of EU too)

the guy above missed the latest article of Tom s hardware , where the things were not so good for Intel
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Fake 2021년 9월 29일 오후 4시 27분 
It's 2021, Intel is the budget friendly option.

Nvidia is still king but if you can find any decently priced GPU, buy it.
Monk 2021년 9월 29일 오후 5시 02분 
littlecat20160님이 먼저 게시:
He is my uncle , who lives in Germany (i live in another country , of EU too)

the guy above missed the latest article of Tom s hardware , where the things were not so good for Intel

So unreliable leaks some say it's great some say its bad, it's almost as if I said not to trust them either way.

OK, so it's your uncle, still doesn't make my points, any less true or your fanboy antics useful.
iceman1980 2021년 9월 29일 오후 6시 05분 
Monk님이 먼저 게시:
littlecat20160님이 먼저 게시:
He s unlikely to ever look at FX 8350 any more , he s got Ryzen 5900X . I doubt he needs such power , but that money was his money

In fact the cores are 8 , in 4 chunks (FX 8350)

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I think he wants to have the best PC . So , i guess if one day i get Ryzen 5900X , he ll go and buy at leat 2x faster than mine . But i dont compete with him .According to him , he has to have the best . lol

He has to have the best, yet stayed with a crap platform gir a decade and didn't buy a 5950x?

Thst doesn't add up, I don't think this friend of yours exists.

Not that you should trust them, but the leaks of the 12900k show it crushing the 5950x in production workloads, so, once again you appear to be, being less than honest and pushing fanboy rubbish as usual.

OP,
Reading through the thread there are clearly two different type of reply, the short 'my team best cos I have it' and then there's the longer replies pointing out how it varies based on budget and use case giving examples of how both have their pro's and cons.

Which you chose to listen to, is down to you, but for a better set of answers, try letting us all know your budget and use case.

I personally run Intel for Linux compatibility at least on the CPU side. I am a fence sitter, I wouldn't ever claim that AMD is better than Intel unless A. I know your workload, B. the purpose of the computer you want, and C. a number of other factors. Some games perform better with Intel some with AMD it really just "depends" on paper specs are unfortunately not representative of the the actual performance a system may have.

But I am a computer scientist I'm impartial go with what makes sense for you. I can provide "advice" thats all I can give, but look at your resolution you plan on playing at, game settings playing at 1080P is more CPU demanding because it's more likely to reach high FPS than playing at 4K.

To develop an understanding of what you want to play you need to look at VRAM memory consumption benchmarks and GPU utilisation charts with respect to those games you wish to play. If you google you'll find plenty of them on youtube or even on Toms Hardware.

Different game options consume varying amounts of VRAM. Higher shadows often consume more VRAM because larger shadow maps have to be loaded into memory these maps could be as big as 8192 x 8192 pixels or more, Anti-aliasing in the form of MSAA or Multisampling Anti-aliasing requires more VRAM because the system has to "create" pixels between object boundries to make "aliasing" less pronounced.

Ambient occlusion which more accurately approximates the representation of shadows which again gets added to the rendering pipeline to further improve shadow quality which may result in even larger memory consumption. Often does.


AMD packs more threads at lower clock speeds therefore in theory if a game is unable to leverage a large quantity of threads will suffer a performance penalty. Games are still largely limited to max 4 - 8 threads with 6 cores being the sweet spot, after that at say the 5950X you hit dimminishing returns. Games being real time workloads makes them limited in how many threads they can leverage due to constant context switching on those threads, and context switching creates thread contention, this leads to actual performance reduction if this context switching is carried out too frequently.

Putting a thread into sleep, wait or other states costs time. In a game 60 FPS means you get 1/60 ~ 16.6 milliseconds to compute a single frame, speed that up more to 1/120 you get just ~8.333 milliseconds to compute a frame and then once you start reaching frames rates beyond that you get less and less time.
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SoldierScar 2021년 9월 30일 오전 11시 36분 
Ryzen 5000 Series is the best choice overall, fast efficient cores with lots of cache, comparable or better performance at stock compared to Intel 11th gen cpus, Intel might win by a few % when overclocked at the cost of 50-100w more power usage. Not worth it unless you use your PC as a heater.
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