These two companies go back and forth as to which has the most powerful CPU at any given time. Right now the pendulum may be toward AMD, but not enough to matter, and I would never spend the obscene money to buy the very top of the line anyway when something a bit down from that will do fine at less than half the cost. At one point, there were compatibility issues where a program might not run correctly on AMD, but those days are long past.

If it helps, I just bought an Intel i9 for my new production machine. This is my first PC since 1983 that I did not build myself, because I'm not familiar with the latest M.2 drives and cooling systems.

A few things follow from your choice of CPU, such as the socket on the motherboard or the cooling unit, so get some advice if you're not fully familiar with the ramifications of this choice.

I never overclock (avoids heat, better stability), and I choose a processor with more speed over one with more cores. BIAB does not require many cores. If you have other software, check the requirements of that software, but in general eight or more should be fine. I have ten, and most are never used much.

About the 'gaming' part, that's mostly about having an added Graphics card (GPU). BIAB of course does not need that at all. My new machine doesn't even have a graphics card; I got a CPU with integrated graphics. Intel chips have long been very good at this.

Does that help?

BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.