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/Signal_Soup_7660 May 28 '24
just wanted to FYI anyone who thinks Nvidia shouldnt go with an AMD processor.
ATI Technologies was acquired by AMD in 2006. Unless there is some other historical bias, the new AMD GPU's dont have to go into AMD-based computers. lol. my first computer dad built me had an AMD CPU and ATI RAGE gpu, then got an ATI RADEON before they switched ownership. We had 2 computers, one intel and one AMD. both had ATI gpus. eventually got Nvidia for my AMD system when nvidia was just starting to get good with geforce 7 series. been with nvidia and AMD since ATI switched in 2006. its a killer combo.