Personally I would go with the AMD one, but would increase RAM to at least 32GB and maybe downgrade GPU/CPU to compensate the price if needed.
My reasons are:
- Ryzen CPUs are better for multitasking
- AMD GPUs work better on Linux
For gaming you don’t really need 16GB yet. Maybe after the next gen of consoles is out, developers might start using that much RAM. But then OP can just add a stick or two
16GB is probably fine for most games right now but there are already some games where you will start to notice some drawbacks.
A game like Cyberpunk has a minimum RAM requirement of 12GB, but features in the game can cause it to eat more than that. And someone playing on PC may also want to have things like Discord streaming and a web browser going at the same time which can further eat into the budget.
Better to have more than you need IMO and future-proof a little bit, and RAM is not that expensive.
Yeah, 16gb is the minimum requirement for a pc nowadays I’d say. If you can get it ofc.
Fair. But since RAM is one of the easiest parts to upgrade you don’t need to future-proof it much imo. Just add a stick when it’s cheaper
Unless you’re in the US, then now might be the best time to buy electronics before prices continue to rise, haha.
I laugh because I’ll cry if I don’t.
I think the price difference would more more less reflect in the perofrmance difference for these setups. So whatever you need and can affort is the right choice. Unless you intend to install linux, then the AMD one for sure.
On Lemmy, everyone will say AMD. On the rest of the net most people will probably say Intel+Nvidia. Difference is just the software that’s available. I would go with the AMD one personally.
AMD has great Linux support.
Intel supports genocide and is directly called out by BDS for its crimes. Go AMD instead.
Also Intel CPU’s have a reputation for being space heaters
Even their latest gens? I thought they started heavily investing in e-cores to reduce power consumption (heat).
In general though, their CPUs seem to have had a lot of issues recently and they look to be in a rough situation right now.
Especially their new ones. They’re better at generating heat than they are at executing code.
I’m not certain. They may have fixed the overheating. I still think it’s worse performance than a similar spec AMD processor.
As with most things, the answer is: it depends. More contextual information please.
gaming
Linux? AMD. Windows? AMD. Go with the AMD one. You won’t regret it.
I have a 9950X3D, and a 9070 XT working together. Runs everything I want super smoothly at max settings. 👍
I would go AMD for the reasons others have said, but also for long term driver performance. NVidia has shown over time that their cards stay the same for performance, meaning very little long term increase from driver improvements. AMD on the other hand has had long term driver improvements leading to longer life and better performance. Your nVidia option would start to feel crappy earlier than a matching AMD card. Also, if you can afford it the AMD is a more performant option. And consider making sure you have room to upgrade the RAM. If there are only two slots and both are full you will have to replace the RAM, but if there are two free slots you could add another 16GB later for a good boost.
Why these choices in particular?
Raptor lake sort of sucked. I would look for an arrow lake cpu if you can.
Amd of the same generation were better at that time. I’d get amd over that intel cpu.
