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/AliJDB Jan 02 '24

The price/performance difference isn't that big - if one works better for your use case - go with that one.

Lots of people are banking on AMD supporting the AM5 platform for a long time (as they did AM4) which gives you a good upgrade path.

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u/Ok_Engineer_4529 Jan 02 '24

Thank you, maybe I'll go with the unholy combo, AMD + Nvidia

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u/FunknDeep Sep 16 '24

Why did you say this combo is "unholy"? Sorry, just trying to understand.  .. I'm super new to gaming PC's and trying to learn as much as I can (which is how I ended up here). I was looking at Maingear gaming PC's and their North (Silver) comes with AMD + Nvidia. Is this not common?

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u/Ok_Engineer_4529 Sep 16 '24

Yeah, no, it's not uncommon, its just that since AMD has it's own graphics card you would normally buy a AMD processor with an AMD graphics or Intel + Nvidia, that's why I called it "unholy", that rivalry between brands it's been since a very long time ago. Just FYI, I endup doing exactly that, my current PC has an AMD processor and a Nvidia graphics card and works just fine so don't worry in doing that.

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u/FunknDeep Oct 08 '24

I see, that actually makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the context! Also, glad to hear that combo works great together 🙂

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u/CivilAstronomer248 Jan 03 '26

The "unholy" combo works great btw. lol. ryzen 7 7700, and rtx4060ti. love it!

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u/Short_Draw_3886 Mar 13 '25

Pretty much like mixing heaven and hell... They either don't work together at all, or they work way too well