QOTW: AMD Ryzen or Intel Core for your next PC?

[Jonj1611]

Ryzen, currently have a Ryzen 7 1700X.

[3dcandy]

Ryzen for me. Very impressed with my "cheap" 2600 which cost me somewhere just under £300 for 6c12t chip, mobo, 1 tb nvme ssd with a great turn of speed and 32 gig of 2400 ddr4 ram. I'd be no where that spec if I went Intel

[Korrorra]

Likely AMD for the next 10 years. I am currently waiting for Ryzen 4000 in 2020. Then I will likely use that for another 5-6 years and maybe a Ryzen 5000 if AMD keeps the same socket. The thing that really annoys me about AMD is that the marketing is still shady as hell. It seems that AMD hasn't learned from bulldozer. AMD marketing is still doing some scummy crap.

[FRISH]

Hard to know, prob won't be for a while. With the way things are now, intel doesn't appear to be making much progress any time soon and they do tend to be more expensive. I only just upgraded to a 3600, so by the time I upgrade things can be very different. The one thing I will take note of however is trying not to upgrade as soon as a new release comes if I can help it, I was lucky to not have it too bad, but others seem to have had bigger issues.

[syristix]

Ryzen 3900 already planned for xmas. Performance, price and a company I feel that are trying to innovate while team intel have stifled all attempts at pushing boundaries simply because they didn't have to. Now they are behind the 8 ball and their attempts to rebadge new launches with the same Nm technology is both transparent and desperate. The pendulum has swung away from them and is now at polar ends of the scale. This is also not healthy so I hope they get back in the game and we have an even choice next time I do a build as choice is key and choice drives competition and sensible pricing.

[vMax65]

For me it just comes down to use case and budget at the time I upgrade and it just does not matter whether it is Intel or AMD. Currently on a 8700K which will see me through at least 2 or more years of gaming and a bit of mixed workloads.

When I next upgrade, I will just buy the very best CPU that my budget allows be it AMD or Intel. With the renewed competition, it only looks good for me and everyone else.

[globalwarning]

Ryzen... I've got a 1700X, and the upgrade path is there. It will probably have to wait until Ryzen 4, though, as my upgrade path is:

1.) 27" 1080p 60Hz -> 27 or 32" 1440p 144HZ
2.) GTX 1070 -> something newer
3.) X370 ->X450 (although I'm hoping X550 will become a thing)
4.) 1700x -> 3700 or gen 4 equivalent

[malculator]

I've never spent any cash on AMD processors since owning my first PC. In fact I've only ever built one AMD system in the past (16 years), which wasn't for me anyway. However, fed up of Intels' lack of innovation and skyrocketing prices, not to mention endless security issues, I thought it's time to give the other team a go. Last Christmas I took the plunge and bought myself a Ryzen 2700X. I might upgrade the processor to say a 3700X or 3900X somewhere down the line, but I'm happy with what I've got for now.

[simonpreston]

Likely to be a another Ryzen for me. I'm looking to replace the Ryzen 1700 with a 3700X, once the price is down to a level it makes the swap worthwhile.

[Hoonigan]

I've just made the decision and upgraded from an Intel Core i7 7700K which was delidded and capable of 5.0GHz. Even at that, I was finding the CPU hitting 100% across all 8 threads in games like Forza Horizon 4 and Battlefield V when trying to reach the 120Hz or 165Hz refresh rates of my monitors.

Swapped out for a Ryzen 7 3700X and it's miles better.

[Output]

Defintely Ryzen.

Not only do AND products tend to have more value for money, but they also tend to have better longevity (Intel frequently requires new sockets for new CPU generations) and support their products with updates for longer, squeezing more performance and out of them and adding new features via driver improvements for as long as they are able to (thinking of GPUs in this particular case, but it likely applies to an extent to CPUs too).

[will19565]

meh, for a desktop flip a coin, AMD processors cost less than intel one, but AMD motherboards cost more than Intel ones, not that phased by the absence or presence of PCIe 4 as the PCIe 3 SSDS are plenty fast for me.
for a laptop definitely Intel, although if they can bring Zen 2 cores to mobile then I would be really interested.
for a win10 tablet intel or ARM (depending on how the surface pro X turns out)

[atomicWAR]

I am waiting on PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 based CPUs to launch. As a 4K gamer using an old Ivy bridge based E5 1680 V2 (8C/16T) @4.3ghz my GPU, a RTX 2080Ti, is still my bottleneck for now. Every game I play still has 99% GPU utilization and with more games going 8+ threads I still have enough life in my system to wait this out, I hope. Usually my CPU utilization is sub 75% per thread and/or sub 60% on all threads. I usually wait till a single core hits 85% (per thread or as a whole) before upgrading. All of that said I am leaning hard towards AMD at the moment but ultimately whomever has the best overall IPC, not just in gaming, will likely be choice vendor. That or whomever gets DDR5/PCIe 5 out the door first if price/IPC is similarish like it is right now.

[=assassin=]

Currently, I'm much more likely to go with AMD I would say, mainly because they offer so much more value in the 8 core/16 thread segment I am leaning towards, but my final choice will come down to price/performance in games at whatever point it is I finally go for the build. Since I feel I could hold on a bit longer before upgrading, barring any premature hardware failure, my main target will likely be something like a 4700X this time next year.

[TooNice]

Probably won't have a desktop in the foreseeable future, making Intel the most likely CPU in the next PC (well, technically I already bought my "next PC", it's an i7 based laptop). AMD options in the laptop scene is just too limited, and the odds that the laptop I want turns out to have an AMD CPU is slim (the CPU is fairly low in priority when I pick a laptop as anything modern is not likely to hold me back).

[EvilCycle]

I don't plan on changing out my 7700k for another couple of years yet as it's mostly a gaming rig, but if I was in the market right now I would be holding out for the new Ryzen chips 100%.

When I am actually in the market in a few years though, it will simply come down to which CPU gives me the most gaming performance and compatibility for my budget, I am not bias and I don't even buy the best value components, I just get the fastest I can possibly afford and hope it lasts.

TL/DR - AMD unless things shift by the time I am in the market again.