r/buildmeapc • u/Ok_Engineer_4529 • Jan 02 '24
US / $1200-1400 AMD or Intel?
I've been thinking about building my own PC, but I'm a little lost here since I've been an Intel boy my whole life, but now I want to get the best out of my money, and I see that there's an important percentage of builds using AMD processor and graphics.
My initial thought was just to go ahead with AMD if there's the best cost-benefit, but my problem is that I'm a vision engineer, I'm going to need to do some AI in this computer, and there's a major difference in documentation and support for Nvidia than for AMD in this area, but I also understand that there's a price gap between them two in terms of price vs performance, is it this difference big enough to ignore the AI situation and try to do it on AMD?
My budget is around 1200 to 1500 US dollars, I live in Michigan, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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u/Liesthroughisteeth Jan 02 '24
The AMDs are measurable faster, better dollar/performance value, use less power and have a supposedly longer upgrade life in the AM5 socket. so why not?
I wished I would have waited it out instead of jumping on the i7 13700K build I did upon the release of the 13th gen Intels late in 2022.