Amd Vs Intel Gaming

Glad to see AMD can finally take on Intel on the gaming area, but for the price ($450 at the time of purchase) seems a bit expensive as 3900X 12-Core is sold at similar price.

AMD has finally convinced me to replace Intel in my main gaming rig. I've had multiple Ryzen CPUs from every generation and they had always been good for power/thermal constrained use cases, but for ultimate gaming performance Intel was ahead, sometimes by a huge margin in poorly optimized games like the Far Cry series. Now they're ahead or on par in just about every game. Every techtuber loves to say that 8 cores is enough for gaming, but I ran into situations in games like Battlefield 5, Death Stranding, and Cyberpunk 2077 where my 9900K at 5.2GHz didn't have enough multithreaded performance when combined with a 2080 Ti or 3090. No more spikes to 100% usage in 64 player BF5 matches. It's great for H.264 and H.265 encoding as well and when Zen 4 comes along and I inevitably end up upgrading I'm sure this will be a great upgrade for one of my VM hosts/Ceph nodes.

I'll start by saying I have over the years gone back and forth between AMD and Intel with whoever has the best CPU at the time for my gaming habits. This later also expanded into some stuff like video editing and streaming from time to time. Though I still use my system for gaming 95% of the time. That said I also love to build PC's and typically enjoy the higher end enthusiast builds. Because of this I have over the past 10 years been using Intel's HEDT motherboards like X79, X99 and now X299 chipsets. Currently running an X299 Asus Rampage VI Apex board I had originally purchased with an i9-7900X. Based on this I felt an easy and now cheaper upgrade to the i9-10920X CPU would be the best route. Yes there are better AMD CPU's out there right now, but Intel still does very well in the gaming performance. So since this was just a CPU swap out for me it was the best way to go I could keep everything else in my system as is. This motherboard has been rock solid and only 2 years old at this moment. I was not disappointed, this CPU works great out of the box. Has very good turbo features for those that don't know how to overclock. It will consistently run 2 cores at 4.8Ghz, 2 at 4.7Ghz, 2 or 3 at 4.6, and the rest at 4.5 down to 4.4. Using Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 software you can force older games that use typically 1 main core to use your strongest cores first for the extra speed. If the program/game has great multicore support then you have the 12 cores which really is plenty for gaming and enough for a good balance of production unless you crunch videos all day. OC wise I have only messed with it some so far but it's not hard to get this CPU to 5.0Ghz on all cores with what I am using, a Corsair H115i Pro AIO water cooler.

I’ve been into computers my whole life and outside a brief window around the Turion x64 days Intel had ALWAYS been the leader in performance. With nearly three decades of dominance came market ubiquity. I always bought Intel because it’s what you did if you wanted the best. Inversely, this led to me developing prejudice against AMD. 2020 saw what had previously been unrealized, and AMD finally had more to show than Intel, and was still offering it at slightly lower pricing. Thus the value proposition presented by particularly the 5600x is astounding. So I made the logical choice and built my first ever AMD based system. Nothing changed, and it still booted when I hit the button. Instead I saw massive day to day speed upgrades and aside from a minor issue getting my ram to run its XMP profiles at stock voltage (which was either my mobo being cranky or the sticks themselves being subpar) the new system just worked flawlessly. It’s been almost two weeks now and I’m exclusively using the system for gaming. I can’t say I’ve experienced any strange hiccups or issues yet that I can directly attribute to the processor (on any new complete build you’re bound to have some quirks arise). Everything just works as I expect it to. The processor itself had broken a mental barrier for me, and does exactly what it claims it will on the box. Under a Kraken X63 my peak gaming temps on the chip were 63* Celsius... PEAK... with most gaming settling into the high 50s. That’s with PBO enabled, and after several hours so a fully saturated cooling loop. All cores have hit their advertised peak boost, and the most power I’ve seen the chip draw was around 83 watts. That’s a very cool and efficient chip, a sign of how much further AMD is ahead of Intel on the die processes. 7nm chips mean less power and more performance in the same package, and I see that born out in this chip. I can highly recommend the 5600x for all but the most extreme gamers. Paired with a 3080@ 2070mhz, no bottleneck!

AMD has ways been my go-to because of price... I have only ever built 1 Intel system and it was awesome but EXTREMELY expensive compared to my AMD builds.... It's performance was decently better, but didn't really justify the cost (IMHO). The release of RYZEN CPUs (all generations) have been spectacular. This CPU, in general, is phenomenal. I'm coming from a 6th gen i7 and the difference is night and day. I did OC a little bit, but went back to stock because F@H didn't like it. I can run F@H on full, play COD:Warzone on one display and RDP into my work rig on the other (RX 5700xt) without a hiccup. AMD has really made a huge improvement and even with newer chipset drivers, I've seen greater performance. If you're on a budget, you can't go wrong with this guy... But.... The 10th gen it's are phenomenal as well and, now, comparatively priced. I recommend this CPU for budget workstation/mid-ranged gaming rig since the boards are significantly cheaper than on the Intel platform. AMD still has a long way to go, but they've made a huge step in the right direction and finally have a competitive stance against Intel.

Caveat: I've only had the processor installed and running for a week. The processor price was retail, the shipping was super quick, and I appreciate that B&H notified me when stock was available as promised and I was able to follow the prompts to order with no issues. Packaging was sufficient and the product box was in perfect shape upon arrival. Installation was easy, I hadn't used an AMD processor before but it simply drops in the slot just like an intel processor. The AIO cooler install was ok, I found it difficult to align perfectly before tightening the screws so it slid around a little bit which isn't ideal for the thermal paste, but not too much... I hope. But it was quick and easy technically. I recall having more annoyances with the intel backplate style install on prior systems. The processor functions perfectly as far as I can tell, and scored very high on UserBenchmark software even relative to the same hardware in other systems. I haven't overclocked anything, and haven't done any real tough workload tasks yet... but so far along with the high end graphics card and storage the PC is insanely fast and snappy. So I think all is as it should be. Played the opening sequence of Star Wars Squadrons and performance was perfectly smooth, though that might be more due to the graphics card. Thanks AMD for the great product, and B&H for the great experience. If anything changes I'll try to update the review here.

AMD has finally, and fully, eclipsed Intel's performance in desktop PCs

Snapdragon is a quick processor, more than Intel and AMD for a laptop. This one has some great features that work together with Windows. I like the cam login. The PC is in reduced power the second you leave, then starts right up as soon as you sit down. There is also more security with Snapdragon. Copilot+ gets better results than the desktop version. The only problem was an old 2014 Canon laser printer would not install. Three other new printers installed in a minute.

Im a long time die hard Intel fan. And for many years, that was easy to do, since Intel was so far ahead of AMD in terms of performance. Not so anymore. I have a lot of PC gamer friends who made the switch to AMD, but I held out for a long time. Upgraded from an i5-8400 to an i5-9600k, hoping it would get rid of my lag, and give me more performance. Not the case. After making the switch to this processor, my days of lagging are gone. Even everyday performance is better. Unzipping files, multitasking, and photo editing all increased in performance.

AMD has blown Intel out of the water with this new processor. Superior performance and quality. Highly recommended!