Put together a new PC build and you’ve got yourself a binary decision when it comes to CPU brand, if not the specific CPU itself - Intel or AMD. It’s not the easiest decision to make, particularly in today’s market, but at some point, you’ve got to fall down on the side of one or the other. Both brands have plenty to offer at whatever price point you’re after, whether that’s top-end Intel Core i9 performance or the latest AMD Ryzen integrated chips.
Unfortunately, Intel as a brand has always been difficult to love. It is the epitome of bland. While Nvidia and AMD battle it out with Super RTX, Radeon Instinct, and Ryzen, Intel branding looks as if it was designed by your mate’s dad who thought Windows Vista was the best OS of all time.
In the end, though, performance has always won through. Intel has been Captain Consistent for the past two decades. While AMD rise and fall like a wave pool, Intel soldiers on. Not sure which CPU to get in your new desktop or laptop? Get an Intel just to be safe.
Yet AMD’s wave is cresting once more. Generation after generation, AMD Ryzen is a growing force. If Ryzen didn’t get you, and you managed to resist Ryzen 2000, then the 7nm Ryzen 3000 series looks impossible to resist. While we’re still eagerly awaiting the definitive benchmarks, it looks likely as if AMD is going to blow Intel away in terms of price to performance.
With such a dramatic shift in the CPU market over the last two to three years, we’d expect the walls to come crashing down in terms of brand loyalty. There will always be those who are die-hard Intel or AMD fans, sticking to their favourite like a limpet. Yet there’s a contingent of floaters who can see through the fluff to find the best option for themselves and who have surely jumped ship for one reason or another in recent times.
However, despite AMD’s Ryzen power plays in recent years, AMD’s market share amongst Steam users is barely budging an inch. According to the latest Steam Hardware Survey, some 82% of PC gamers are using Intel CPUs, compared to just 18% for AMD. Considering the progress AMD has made with Ryzen, why aren’t more gamers opting for Team Red?
So we thought it would be interesting to find out just how much moving and shaking there is going on in the CPU market right now. Select whichever option applies for you in the poll and let us know why you chose Intel or AMD in the comments section below!
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I've just bought Ryzen 5 3600 to replace my 1600X, i think that it will push my RTX 2080 little bit harder.
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Both Intel and Nvidia are hated brand cpmpared to amd and yet still they sell more than their compitition 'amd'.
I wonder why that is?
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It is because people know they are the best in terms of all. Quality wise I beg to defer but performance when it comes to Nvidia people go for it. Intel still hold the most. Alot of people don't actually know AMD products so they go for Intel except us gamers who are clued up some novice gamers don't know unfortunately... ????
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No. Every year new tech happen. Now ryzen. Next intel. I prefer to stay a little longer with what i have
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I went from an i7 3820 to an i9 9900K, but I was very close to going with AMD this time around despite never having had an AMD cpu.
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From i7-3770 to i7-9700k for gaming only...don't need cpu upgrade for the next years...an RTX until Christmas (RTX 2080 super or 2080ti) and i will be top notch for Cyberpunk :P
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Still holding up to my 4690, with my 980ti I didn't have any problem on any game I played so far on ultra. So for now, (for me at least) no upgrade needed. As for what I will upgrade to, when the time comes.. I'll just get what gives me the best performance in games for my money, as always.
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What games do you play?
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New or old. I play on ultra 1080p 60fps, not more, compared with today's standards, on the settings I play, I don't have a problem with anything. Also don't forget that the performance gained in most games, is not worth it enough for me to change the whole rig (all now are DDR4, so I have to change everything)
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Prices here are high, so the performance I'm gaining with a new cpu won't really worth the money im spending. New i5/7,16gb ram, mobo, thats easy 600e for nothing major in gaming performance. Ofc,some games have big performance increase, but most don't. So for now im holding to it,and when I wont be able to play ultra 1080p 60fps anymore, im changing the whole rig to something drastically better..
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ive made the jump from i7 4790k to r9 3900x hope its a wise choice
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I switch from core i5 4460 with H97 to Ryzen r3 1300x with A320 never been happier it so much quicker and cost very little but was worth it :)
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I don't get why you 'upgraded' from 4cores/4threads to 4 cores/4 threads, why not a Ryzen 5 with 8 Threads or a Six core CPU?
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for my uses it made no sense to do that also in my country the cost of those cpu's are to much.
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And the next time you upgrade it will be either a Ryzen 5 1600 or you'll have to buy a new motherboard. Running Ryzen 7 CPUs on A320 is highly unrecommended and A320 doesn't support anything apart from Ryzen 1000 seires IIRC.
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the A320 is not the C i have the Asus A320M-Gaming it was just cheap my machine was on it's way out anyway when i had the i5... I wanted something low powered but had enough performance.
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I switched from the i5 4460, but i upgraded to a Ryzen 7 2700
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Nice you most likely do alot of editing.
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I am upgrading from the i7 2600K to ryzen 7 3700x tomorrow.
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AMD since my first pc around 2008, both cpu and gpu. Upgraded that sad little thing in 2013 to a fx-8350 cpu and a r5 200 something. Then my upgrading spree starter in 2016 where I switched gpu and cpu every few months - r9 390x - gtx 1080 - ryzen 7 1700x - 1080 ti - i9 9900k - rtx 2080 ti. We will have to see what the future looks like. Would love to get a better cpu with the amd logo on it.
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Not gonna lie... I'M SO GOING TO SWITCH !!!
ASAP !!!
ASAP = Probably in 2 years or so. :' )
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Some Intel early 2002 > Athlon 64 3000+ 2006 > celeron g1820 2014 > i5 6500 2016 > i7 8700k 2018 and still have it, till ddr5 and if amd will be still in this spot im in red team again in long time :)
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p4 1.6 ghz > amd athlon 64 x2 5400+ > i5 6600 > i7 7700 and my next cpu i think is red
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want to jump from i5-4570 to 3600X, need to save up :D
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4570 is still great tho.
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Depends on what you do, for me its old trash.
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I'm most likely going for a R7 3700X, been with this setup since 2011 and the only thing I upgraded since then is the GPU and a SSD for the OS so it's time to build a new PC, but i'll keep the GPU.
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I recently went from an i7-4790 and an MSI Gaming GTX 970 to an R7 2700X and a Sapphire RX Vega 56 Pulse.
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I always prefer Intel CPU before Ryzen. I only built one AMD system using A10-8750 for my mother. But upgraded my HTPC from i5-4460 to Ryzen 5 1600 2 years ago and last year I upgraded my gaming PC from i5-4690k to Ryzen 5 2600.
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Intel Pentium 166Mhz -> AMD Athlon 3400+ -> Intel Quad-Core Q9XXX (don't remember exactly) -> AMD FX-8350 -> Ryzen 5 2600X. Quite a trip.
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My ride: Pentium 133Mhz -> Pentium D805 -> Core 2 Quad Q6600 -> Phenom II X4 960T -> FX-6300 -> Pentium G4560 -> i5 7400 -> i7 8700 that was a trip, and now I really want a Ryzen 9 3900x after seeing the benchmarks. :D
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Holy **** that's a lot of CPUs, dude.
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I upgraded mostly because of some game. :D
Phenom to Fx because of Battlefield 4 and the G4560 to i5 because of Battlefield 1.
The i7 was just such a good deal i couldn't say no for 240€ new.
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Ain't gonna lie... As soon as me and my bro save enough, we gonna build him Ryzen 3700X based system.
But when it comes to GPU, still not sure. Lets see how good new Radeon is first.
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changed from i5 4460 to ryzen 7 2700X. the 8700k was too expensive and had to buy a cooler for it. so way more expensive... no problem with gaming so far with the ryzen 2700X and the Wraith Prism cooler is included and pretty cool to see