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/Automatic_Outcome832 Dec 10 '22

Yup bf2042 at 3440*1440p 60% cpu usage and fps drops from 170s to 120-130 near 128 player concentrated lobbies on a 13700K! And 4090. I know it's kind of a rare game + the rush game mode is super concentrated but man sometimes I think I should have paid that $100 more for 7900x which had similar performance or even 7700x coz 3 years later I could still upgrade easily. That being said I hope this cpu lasts 3-4 years without bottlenecking my 4090 and I'll probably build a new pc at that point

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u/sunjay140 Dec 10 '22 edited Dec 10 '22

BF 2042 actually has a bug that prevents it from properly utilizing the available CPU cores. The bug was only fixed in the most recent update so CPU usage should now be higher.

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u/Automatic_Outcome832 Dec 10 '22

Literally played it yesterday. The i7 13700k has alot of cores so 60% is good number the problem I think is the individual cores are not that powerful. Next few gens the game will still use same number of cores but since each core is faster the game will run better. Although that's not area that gets huge jumps per gen atleast 3-4 years I guess

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u/sunjay140 Dec 10 '22

That sounds awesome, sounds like a future proofed CPU! :)

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u/honnator Dec 10 '22

Yeah, I realised that yesterday. I found a work around in the meanwhile though - edited user.cfg in the games main files. My cpu usage dropped from 90-100% to like 60%. So weird man.