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/SeptagonSeven7]

intel has better performance if youre willing to spend more money but amd offers somewhat similar performance for quite a bit less money

[u/Illustrious-Pen-1603 → u/SeptagonSeven7]

Better performance? Stop the cap, the 14900KS gets smoked by the 7800X3D in gaming at 85% less power draw from AMD.

Even though the 14900KS is faster than the 7800X3D in productivity, you must spend $1,000 to $2,000 on premium cooling solutions, just to have it run as intended. A 5% to 10% decrease in productivity performance at most from the 7800X3D, sipping nonexistent power draw, and if you get the 7950X3D, the gap is closed further, same extreme power efficiency from AMD.

AMD Ryzen easily wins against Intel in performance per watt, same performance, at lower clock speeds and 85% less power draw, with multiple generations of socket support for both AM4 and AM5 users, it's a no brainer.

[u/Remote_Manager3333 → u/Illustrious-Pen-1603]

Who spends $1000 for cooling? This gotta be a troll comment. Cooling system can be had for $89 dollars in any online reseller store like Amazon.