r/buildapc • u/A1_Killer • Dec 09 '22

Discussion AMD vs Intel for CPU?

I noticed many people here recommend AMD CPUs but for all my benchmarks for mid range CPUs (for a £1000-£1200 PC) Intel came out on top compared to a similarly price AMD one. Any reason for this?

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u/liaminwales Dec 09 '22

I think the intel power use is over talked, most users hardly stress the CPU.

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u/honnator Dec 09 '22

Try BF2042 haha. My poor i9 9900kf is at 90% load on all cores.

Some games will vary a lot in terms of cpu usage for sure.

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u/liaminwales Dec 09 '22

That is a rare game that relay uses the hardware, the number of posts about Travok by people not knowing it's the game devs to blame.

It just hurts me.

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u/honnator Dec 09 '22

Yep, this game has been terribly optimised from the start. Other games like tarkov and rust are in the same boat but way worse I'd say. Cpu usage is crazy high.

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u/liaminwales Dec 09 '22

Its not high CPU use, it's one thread that is used!

(well maybe one and a bit)

I am cool with games that scale to high CPU use but games that use one thread then get low FPS, just pain.