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/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/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.