Well, I'll be the odd ball and say I have always ran AMD, and mainly for the price/benefit aspect ..

When building your own, the CPU cost is a big part of what you decide to build.
Otherwise, as others have said, not much difference.
AMD is more likely to not have an integrated video driver option in my experience.
You really don't need to spend much on a video card for most stuff.

This particular machine has a simple 2 out video card.
I don't need 3 monitors here at home, but starting to consider it at work.
I think really high priced video cards are a pretty big waste for what we do.
The AMD I chose runs all my apps fine, including running Kontakt Komplete while running RB and/or other DAWs & plugins at the same time.
It's a 6 core 12 thread .. so cores is not the only consideration when picking a CPU, same with speed .. it's really about how much data can it process in a given amount of time.
Many things come into play, cores, threads, speed, and like Eddie mentioned, front side cache etc all matter 'a little'.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor 3.40 GHz
They make much better these days


Last edited by rharv; 02/14/23 01:33 PM.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!