On 7/20/2021 7:49 PM, Nightfox wrote:
The roles are pretty much reversed of where they were a couple years
ago. While AMD is current king in terms of best of breed, there is a
bit of a price premium for that, so unless going for 5900X or 5950X,
then Intel is actually a better deal at the moment for most systems.
Oh? I thought AMD's processors were still cheaper. At least a couple
years ago, I remember hearing when AMD's processors were rating ahead
of Intel's. For the price of an Intel i9-9900K, there was an AMD
processor that was similarly priced that had more cores, and AMD's processors were getting slightly better ratings than Intel across the
board, except for a couple cases.
With the AMD Ryzen 5000 series (current), they bumped the pricing, at
the top end they're faster than Intel's fastest. Meanwhile Intel prices dropped a bit, Intel still tends to take more power for a given
performance class. Again, role reversal.
In the enthusiast space, AMD is much more popular, and also had been
selling out more, given Intel more breathing room. It's a bit of a
mixed bag outside the top end.
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