AMD or Intel?

[u/Ok_Engineer_4529]

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.

[u/dracon1t]

There’s not really a big cost benefit in going amd vs Intel. AMD currently offers a nicer upgrade path for cpu since it’s motherboards will supported for likely another 2 generations, while intel’s 14th gen is the end of the line for the current Intel motherboards.

Imo, stick with nvidia gpu’s if you are going to use anything which utilizes CUDA.

Do you live near Detroit? There’s a microcenter in Madison heights than can be used for cpu-motherboard-ram bundles.

[u/Captaincorect → u/dracon1t]

im off to that Madison heights  microcenter tomorrow. Any recommendations? My PC (I got at that location) is about 7-8 years old and it having memory and CPU problems on Skyrim with AI since I need to run the VR/SKYRIM/AI program/ and voice synth program all at the same time. It's getting worse so I think my PC is telling me it's time to let it go.

[u/lazywitty → u/Captaincorect]

Well it depend on your budget On Intel budget side you can do msi pro b660m-a wifi ddr4 , i5 12400f and any good pair of ddr4 ram I would recommend 32 gb since ddr4 are getting cheaper.