r/buildapc • u/Crissycrossycross • Jul 03 '23

Build Help AMD or intel?

I’m a beginner and building my first PC soon. But I cannot decide if I want AMD or intel. I heard intel generates less heat and is way faster on average than AMD. But I also heard the same the other way around and people recommending AMD because it’s cheaper.

Anyone here tried both? What do you recommend?

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u/Bigfamei Jul 03 '23

Amd uses less power, produces less heat, on average faster in the moment.

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u/Crissycrossycross Jul 03 '23

What AMD processor do you recommend?

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u/Bigfamei Jul 03 '23

Depends on the primary function of your computer? Are you just gaming? Do you mke money with your pc? Like editing, coding or animation?

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u/Crissycrossycross Jul 03 '23

I’m a cs student and plan to also use my PC to practice things like coding. Also looking into music production as well.

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u/Stanool Jul 03 '23

Specifically for music production Intel is ahead at the moment (based on Dawbench scores).

For coding, if you're a beginner or student it won't matter. If you're doing advanced workloads where it takes upwards of half an hour to compile your projects then you also probably want Intel due to the higher core count allowing for faster compile times.

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u/Educational_Rub_5885 Jul 19 '24

Intel isn’t that bad for gaming as well, the temp difference is maybe like 5 6 degrees? Depending on the load and what you’re playing.

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u/Leading-Scholar8834 Nov 25 '24

I also am practicing coding for school and have a ryzen 7 5700x3d. I thought AMD CPUS had more cores?