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I am not a gamer so asking, AMD CPU better than Intel?

stormbeard 7y ago
It doesn't matter if you game or not. AMD is crushing Intel on every dimension w.r.t. consumer and HEDT CPUs. Just look up the benchmarks.
- ForFreedom 7y ago
  Are there any driver issues or conflicts with other HW?
  - garganzol 7y ago
    AMD is flawless all ways around. I use Gigabyte motherboard + AMD Ryzen 3600 as a temporary substitute for a more powerful Ryzen 3950x I'm planning to get a hand on soon. One of the best experiences so far. No conflicts or issues whatsoever.
unionpivo 7y ago
yes, especially if you are not a gamer. AMD has better multi threaded performance (in some cases double that of intel). Intel still has some lead in single threaded performance, and some vector optimizations. So for general use case amd is better, but there are some specialized cases where intell still makes sense.
- ForFreedom 7y ago
  Specialized cases such as high end development or servers?
  - unionpivo 7y ago
    no for development (and probably) it's amd all the way https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-linux-3960x-3970x&num=9 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-linu...
  - BjorksEgo 7y ago
    Servers I'd imagine is where AMD excel, not Intel, considering their primary purpose is serving many users where multi threaded performance comes to the fore. Intels usecase, compiling?
    - fgonzag 7y ago
      On the server it depends. For front end servers, where you are running many connections with no shared state, AMD crushes Intel so bad it's shameful. On the backend, for things that are not highly parallelizable or memory sensitive, sometimes Intel wins. Things like databases and the like. That was when Intel still used a single ring bus, the mesh should add latency similiar to Epyc's IIRC. I haven't seen any benchmarks of the newest EPYCs vs the newest Xeons though.
      - testrun 7y ago
        https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-amd-rocksdb&num=2 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-am...

It doesn't matter if you game or not. AMD is crushing Intel on every dimension w.r.t. consumer and HEDT CPUs. Just look up the benchmarks.

ForFreedom 7y ago
Are there any driver issues or conflicts with other HW?
- garganzol 7y ago
  AMD is flawless all ways around. I use Gigabyte motherboard + AMD Ryzen 3600 as a temporary substitute for a more powerful Ryzen 3950x I'm planning to get a hand on soon. One of the best experiences so far. No conflicts or issues whatsoever.

unionpivo 7y ago

yes, especially if you are not a gamer. AMD has better multi threaded performance (in some cases double that of intel). Intel still has some lead in single threaded performance, and some vector optimizations. So for general use case amd is better, but there are some specialized cases where intell still makes sense.

ForFreedom 7y ago
Specialized cases such as high end development or servers?
- unionpivo 7y ago
  no for development (and probably) it's amd all the way https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-linux-3960x-3970x&num=9 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-linu...
- BjorksEgo 7y ago
  Servers I'd imagine is where AMD excel, not Intel, considering their primary purpose is serving many users where multi threaded performance comes to the fore. Intels usecase, compiling?
  - fgonzag 7y ago
    On the server it depends. For front end servers, where you are running many connections with no shared state, AMD crushes Intel so bad it's shameful. On the backend, for things that are not highly parallelizable or memory sensitive, sometimes Intel wins. Things like databases and the like. That was when Intel still used a single ring bus, the mesh should add latency similiar to Epyc's IIRC. I haven't seen any benchmarks of the newest EPYCs vs the newest Xeons though.
    - testrun 7y ago
      https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-amd-rocksdb&num=2 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-am...